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‘Land Ahoy!’ is today’s featured work on Central Station

ithinkitsnice — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:24:49 +0000

That little animation I released yesterday made a bit of an impression and was today’s featured work on the creative social network, Central Station. Big thanks to everyone at @CenSta.

My sadly neglected Central station profile page is here.

Land Ahoy! (a very short animation)

ithinkitsnice — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:46:40 +0000

Land Ahoy! is a very short animation that started out as an experiment in 2.5D video in After Effects. I was so pleased with how it turned out that I took what was initially just a bobbing boat and gave it a bit more polish and some semblance of narrative (not a lot though).

All of the images are made from cut-out paper which was scanned and coloured in Photoshop.

The music is ‘The Trumpet Hornpipe‘, performed and released by Stuart Eydmann under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland License (the rest is ©2010 ithinkitsnice). My thanks to Stuart for sharing this.

You simply must go to Youtube to see it in 720p HD which is a hell of a lot prettier.

Artwork and videos for Blu Mar Ten’s ‘Natural History Remixes: Part 1′

ithinkitsnice — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:13:18 +0000

Blu Mar Ten have just announced the release of their Natural History Remixes: Part 1, which I created the artwork for.

The vinyl features reworkings by Seba and Bop, while the digital download features an additional remix by the wonderful Badmammal from San Francisco.

For the build up to the release, Blu Mar Ten also asked me to create some animated titles and visuals for the Youtube previews of the tracks.

Part 2 in the series will be announced in the coming month.

Flash clocks in felt-pen and envelope

ithinkitsnice — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:33:57 +0000

Note: If you’re viewing this post on Facebook you’ll need to click the ‘view original post’ link to see the Flash

Flashing your clock

ithinkitsnice — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:44:00 +0000

I was digging through some old, unfinished self-initiated projects looking for some inspiration when I found this…

Pretty little clock, but the code was a bit rubbish and I’ve learned a lot about ActionScript since then so I decided to write myself an AS2.0 Clock class. Granted, Flash clock scripts are ten a penny on the net but seldom are they very good, and to be honest I just wanted my own. Here is the result in a fairly bare visual form…

Functionally, much better and more extendible. Little series of fun clocks on the horizon, I think.

Video titles for Blu Mar Ten’s ‘Natural History’ Youtube album preview (updated)

ithinkitsnice — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:14:35 +0000

I’ve just made these video titles for Blu Mar Ten’s Youtube album preview, including a little non-narrative montage of some of the album artwork. It’s based on a full video promo for one of the tracks which is in progress now and should be coming in the next few weeks.

Now I’ve got about a week’s worth of A drawing A Day to catch up on…

Update 27/10/09

I’ve just been informed by Chris Blu Mar Ten that this video has received 2 ‘Honors’ on YouTube; one for being the the 75th most viewed in the United Kingdom and, perhaps bizarrely, another being the 81st most viewed music video in Russia. I’m not entirely sure what to make of that — and it’s all down to Blu Mar Ten’s popularity, make no mistake — but I think that’s good going. It’s certainly received over 1200 views in under 48 hours. I’m happy with that.