Monday, 19th December, 2005

Geometry 101

Since I've been blathering on at great length about QuickTime related things these past few weeks, I thought maybe I'd take the opportunity to show one of my early films.

This is a really old one, made when I was still mucking around with things like After Effects rather than just making stripes. I've never been happy with the ending bit of it — we shot it in glorious DV quality, but I had to encode it from VHS because that's all I had at the time.

(My mate wouldn't let me borrow his XL1 *humpf*)

I've always been particularly fond of this one It demonstrates my dogged approach to film-making pretty well I think...

That section in the middle, the one with the celtic knotwork that draws itself. I did that by hand. It took me two weeks.

One thing I always wonder about, in relation to that, is if I hadn't done it myself — rather let the computer do it for me — would it still be the same piece of footage. I kinda think "no", because being involved with every single frame of that (I did in it PhotoShop, since you ask ), it meant I was able to make very specific decisions about the progress of it — rather than leaving my Mac running for a day or so and seeing what came out as a result.

SqueeKer, incidentally, were two of my friends, who did all the music for the early stuff that I made. Or rather, I nicked it off them when they weren't looking

Aw, thank you