Archive for March, 2008

Thumbs up to our Paulie, who was Animation Supervisor during the creation of this music video. Produced by @Warblefly Productions and directed by Ben Lister, this stop-frame animation took 6 days to shoot in Warwickshire, using two Nikon digial SLRs.

Just a quicky to say that a new Eight Eyed Sea Bass showreel is in the works. It’ll be online and distributed on DVD where appropriate in the very near future!

Keep those blinkers peeled….

One final plug for this piece which we Graded and Edited for ST16, all in HD, is this viewable version, again for you to watch in HD (based on the version we prepared for cinema).

As with the Wing Wah below, click the button to the left of the ‘HD’ icon to make the player become full-screen. This will enable the true HD-ness of it all.

Be careful now, viewers.

For those of you who would like to see the commercial in High Definition (rather than standard definition in which it was broadcast), please view using the player below!

For HD version please press the button to the left of the HD button, to make the video full-screen.

Enjoy!

This is a test animated render of an image which was created over the Christmas ‘07 period.

The whole scene was created to test how the 3D software can create clouds, atmospheres and skies. The land itself is basic with no actual material applied.

Generally pleased apart from the slightly wonky camera movement and the lower layer of cloud needs to be more localised. Study successful.

Just a quick one really, to have a place to show the whole PARD video, rather than snippets which may appear in our showreel…

Enjoy!

• Tues 21st August ‘07 - Two major studios dump Blu-ray, including Paramount
  
• Sun 6th Jan ‘08 – Warner Bros leaves HD-DVD camp, 2 days before CES show in which there was to be a big HD-DVD press event, messing up the tradeshow plans. Later, there is talk of Warner being paid to switch over to Blu-ray, with numbers like $100m or even $500m being bandied about.
  
• Weds 9th Jan ‘08 - Paramount claims it still loves HD-DVD.
  
• Tues 29th Jan ‘08 - UK Woolworths stops stocking HD-DVD, to sell Blu-ray only
  
• Mon 11th Feb ‘08 - Netflix (the online movie rental firm) stops renting out HD-DVD, at which point, 4 of the 6 major Hollywood studios are backing Blu-Ray.
  
• Tues 12th Feb ‘08 - Best Buy stops selling HD-DVD discs
  
• Fri 15th Feb ‘08 – Our sources suggest rumours of a leak from within Toshiba saying HD-DVD was about to be killed off.
  
• Mon 18th Feb ‘08 - Toshiba announce pulling out of format war, due to studio switches and the loss of support of Wal-Mart.

We at Eight Eyed Sea Bass would like to send a hearty “congratulations” to ST16, for their recent gold award in the Community and Public Affairs category – at the New York Film Festival.

The award is for their ‘Steamy Windows’ anti drink driving viral campaign.
The viral has seen lots of positive attention, and rightly so, as you can read here on the BBC web site.

Originally shot in HD, Eight Eyed Sea Bass edited, graded and transcoded the piece for web viewing, then later re-formatted and exported it, ready for its transfer to film.

The piece should be appearing in cinemas around North Lancashire shortly.