Archive for March, 2009

Today marked the day when Eight Eyed Sea Bass was called to author a Blu-Ray disc – our first for an external company.

Stuart Mills, camera man by day, man of … other interests by night, had created a short film with his contacts called Justice 3.1. Stuart has been submitted the film to various film festivals, but one informed him that they would actually want the film on Blu-Ray so they could project in HD. Seeing as Stuart had filmed his piece and edited in HD, that was just fine.

We offered to help him prepare his film correctly, carefully encoding both the video and audio to retain the highest quality possible. Upon viewing the master that spat out of the Blu-ray burner, we all sat down excitedly on the sofas to check out the finished piece, and we were all more than pleased with the results.

Blu-ray holds up quite well really..!

Good luck at the film festivals, Stu!

I’ll have the lightly slated popcorn please….

The piece of work previously created for Birmingham City Council by EESB in conjunction with @Warblefly Productions; Reaction To Litter, has been (re-?)commissioned, for Cinema.

Birmingham City Council have aksed us to re-work the piece into a thirty second ad, to run at a select number of Cinemas in the region in the near future.

More news to follow on this one.

Keep well all.

Unlike some of you lucky scamps; I was around in the 70s… and the 80s, which isn’t really that surprising with this whole ‘linear progression of time (depending on your school of thought, of course) thing’.

So, what to pick from the 70s that would be immediately recognisable, and achievable within a one hour time limit for the modelling side of things?
I toyed with the idea of a classic Space Hopper, but someone beat me to it.

I tried to remember the things from my childhood that made me happy, and I don’t mean Colonel Wilma Deering. There’s one for the thirty-somethings!

I decided to go with a toy that had me almost hypnotised as a youngster; the ‘Wacky Wall Walker’, by the great Dr Fad.

The render came out a little noisy, but it kind of adds to the whole nostalgia feel of the image, or maybe I’m just trying to make myself feel better about a half-cooked render here!

Have a lookie for yourself…. and enjoy the wires too.

Next, I thought I’d like to try something that I don’t get the call to do very often; some furniture.

I found a piece from the 70s that I liked the look of (a stool, by Karl Springer), and set about the doing. I’d like to think that I did the subject a decent justice. Again, lookie-see here:

Turned out nice again we think.

More soon, keep well all.
P.s. Oh, if things happen right-ways, look out for an interesting post fairly soon…

What do we do here with such a wide scope of possible entries?

My first option would be something to do with burgers, being the person that I am and all.
Though I have to keep my entries confined to what I know I can produce within the one hour time limit.

For my first entry, some chili peppers.

Maybe a smidge too shiny for photoreal peppers, but the image is still nice for my money.

For my second entries, some candy canes. I was just going to do two sticks of rock, but I thought that they may come across as a bit of a cop-out…. so I curled the ends!

I’ll see if time allows me to conjure a virtual burger for this challenge, it will be posted here. Meanwhile, I’m sure I’ll keep dreaming of them.

More soon, keep well all.

Interesting subject matter here.

Strangely, I found myself drawn into a kind of ‘Jack the Ripper’ era for this challenge. Well, for at least two of the entries anyhoo.

Entry No1. Villain Aparel:

Indeed, what self-respecting gentleman villain would be seen without the pre-requesites of a top hat, cane, and of course; the red-lined cloak?

Entry No2. Classic villain prop; the syringe:

Shown here with un-workably long needle and plunger, just for effect. !Mwaaah-haaaaaa-haaaa!

*Ahem* My apologies.

Entry No3. Classic villain weapon; the Toffee Hammer:

The less said about this one the better, I feel. Please don’t have bad dreams. Not unless they’re about being chased down the Kilburn High Road by your own undercrackers.

More soon, keep well all.