After completing the Audiotraffic commercial, i was eager to use the same black
and white technique again. After a few hours of messing around, i turned
to AnD for inspiration, and found it quite quickly in the form of everyones favourite
language tool, AskBenny.

So i started, first recreating each individual piece of Benny.

Then doing a few test renders to see which Benny worked best.

Then i started putting benny in some pictures

and finally i animated him being constructed.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qKPj_ET0acU

Oh did any of you guys notice the audiotraffic commercial didn't just feature audiotraffic?
It also featured two AnD crew...

Actually it nearly featured three, but his scene got the axe....sorry Patrick

With Will being in Beijing, i also created a special logo to celebrate

Ok have to get back, just started working on a pretty big project for one of the
AnD famliy..........oooo i can't resit showing a tease. 

And if that picture dosn't creep you out enough....Then visit here http://www.unseenscreen.com/  

Type in your name, and then see it being written in blood by a crazywomen, as seen below

Thats a pretty cool viral vid...and how the hell is it done!!!!

So it was pretty obvious i was working on a audiotraffic themed video. 

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG9oyc9_CfM

Edit: Here's the higher quality link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG9oyc9_CfM&fmt=18

i wanted create one of those commercials you see on tv advertising a bands latest album, and i really wanted to use the cellshaded technique again i had used to replicate 'Bender' a while back.

i had already replicated the album cover in 3D and really wanted to use it in a video some how, and i had an idea of various music equipment/intruments being constructed. 

Although thanks to youtube, alot of the fine details have been lost in the encoding/compression, hence the delay in uploading.

oh and until the pointless dashboard update happens, i'm gonna stick with this!

and as you can tell, i've now got a digital camera, Yay!.........But i think i need more practice with it!!

Finally, i'm back.  I few weeks ago, good ol' Mr Bill Gates's company decided to release an update for windows which resulted in my PC completly shutting out the internet, Cheers mate!!

Well, after weeks of frustration, and many failed attempts to read 300+ feeds using my Wii, i'm finally back, and boy does it feel good.

Thanks for everyone who visited/left messages while i was away, Congrats to Will & Herbert on the relaunch of there website.  Damn just realised i missed the 25,000 mark. 

Also make sure you say a warm AnD welcome to Lisa Clemens, Lisa's been on AnD for a while now, but more importantly she's a writer for the excellant Official Jackie Chan Magazine, Screen Power & Jade Screen.  She recently interviewed AnD's very own Kenneth Bi, so make sure you give her a warm welcome and make sure you pick up an issue of Screen power. 

Oh, during the weeks i was offline i was busy working on a new video(artist related) which i'll be uploading next week, in the meantime though here's a quick tease.