VFX Breakdown for 'Edinburgh' by Woodpigeon

Here is a short VFX breakdown for some work I did on Ben Soper's music video for the band Woodpigeon.

http://woodpigeon.bandcamp.com/
http://bensoper.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.blueirisfilms.co.uk/

After Effects to Avidemux - Datamosh Round Trip

This tutorial for shows you how to export video prepared for datamoshing from After Effects, join clips and remove I-frames in Avidemux (freeware) to create the datamosh, then export the result as an image sequence for further processing in After Effects.

Thanks to datamosher on YouTube for his video tutorial on the process.

VFX Breakdown for Pigeon Song Animation

Here is a VFX breakdown for a live action / animated shot that I produced for a recent music video.  I did the compositing and the landscape sketches, Nuria Valdeon did the cell animation and Fraser Murdoch did the 3D modeling.

Project Scotland 'Enjoy the Present' Campaign

Here is another banner that I made for the good folks at ProjectScotland. The Christmas themed design was achieved using the Vue environment design software and plenty of Photoshop.  Here is a walk through of the Photoshop work;

Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward & Fisher 'Pigeon Song' Music Video

Here is the music video that I directed with John Fairfield for the band Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward & Fisher.  The video was shot by Ian Forbes on the AF-101 in Dundee and St Andrews.  It was cut in Premiere CS6 and most of the VFX and grading were done in After Effects.  A break down of the animation sequence is to follow next week.

ProjectScotland - 'Night Dweller' Campaign

Here is a Halloween themed Facebook banner I made for ProjectScotland.

Nuke Compositing Demo

Here is a walkthrough of a shot I made in the Foundry's Nuke Compositing Software.  Watch it in 1080p if you want to see what's going on in the node tree.