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Process

Sometimes the process is as good as the work.

Chameleon - Octopus Illustration from Super Silo on Vimeo.

Vimeo

I've been busy with exams and work so this is the first update in a while. Take the time to check vimeo.com It's a well of great creativity. I've posted a few of my favourites but go check it out and enjoy.

Sebastian's Voodoo from Joaquin Baldwin on Vimeo.

Flickermood 2.0 from Sebastian Lange on Vimeo.

The Tarantino Mixtape from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

Free and Donation Software

I answered a query today from a person seeking inexpensive creative software without going over to the darkside and piracy. In short Gimp is a good open source alternative to Photoshop and costs nothing but a good karma donation. Blender is a fantastic 3D application featuring some of the most recent developments in 3D technology. Scribus is a great Quark alternative and is available for free. I will add a lot more to this section soon as I know many have an interest in this. For now I've posted some useful links and screen shots.
http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.blender.org/
http://www.scribus.net/

Scribus Documentation can be downloaded here
http://docs.scribus.net/

Levi's × Damien Hirst "The Spin Jeans"

At 26 Grand a pair Hirst puts Victoria Beckham in the shade.

Legal Mind Maps

My law exams start in less than 3 weeks and I'm on a total mind map buzz. Stand by for more soon but here's a good example of a Mind map. Currently working on negligence in tort and sexual offences in criminal

Maxon Showreel 2008

Chloe my 9 year old surprised me by doing this using Photobooth and iPhoto on the MacBook she got last week

3 Year Old Apple Campaign Just keeps Getting Better

and two of my favourites from previous years

New Museworx Desktop

Here's a sneak peek at the new Museworx Desktop version. Take the time to go and sign up for a free account to explore the benefits of online collaboration on digital media projects here I'm currently Beta testing a version for iPhone which gives full access and interaction with all your digital assets from an iPhone.

Energy Guy First Episode

I did the Energy Guy Logo and the bubbles for Andy Clare in Ogilvy. The online comic goes live today and I'll put the credits here as soon as I get them.

Simon Danaher Tide

Simon Danaher's Amazing illustrations for Tide Ultra detergent, winner of a Gold Lion award in the Outdoor category at the Cannes International Advertising Awards 2007. Agency Saatchi NY .

Flame NAB Showreel Eye Candy

The picture that changed everything

markryanimages.com

My New site went Live this afternoon and the DNS has propagated already. Media Temple in California now handle all my hosting with bullet proof systems optimised for complex digital media.

You can go here to see it.

Later that day we dropped by Dr. Bourkes for some badly needed fishing supplies.

Met Suukie on the street in Kilkee last weekend. Great Marilyn Manson eye thing going on.

Beach

Sophie Basshunter

My kids are with me today and insisting that we upload Sophie's Basshunter video to Youtube, something I'm not very comfortable with. So here's the compromise, posting it on my blog. 

Motion blur and Gaussian Blur to fake depth of field are probably the worst sins in Photoshop and you see it everywhere. Photographic depth of field and boketh have become a bit of an obsession with me and finding tools and ways to replicate them in 3D. I've quite a few experimental images which I'll post here soon but on a slightly related subject I found this shot, one of a series I did with long exposures and the kids and camera moving in a swimming pool. I really like the look of them and the intense colours of swimming paraphernalia and the pool water works well.

The guys in the bear shot wanted a regular shot as proof that they were in fact the bears.

Starting to find my way around Blogger. Just noticed I can upload slightly larger pictures. 

Check out my good mate Cormac's new website.

Seriously high energy images.

Click on any of the pictures below.

Amazing animation from Aixsponsa using C4D and Vray

Thanks to Stefan Laub for porting Vray to C4D

Just finished a major overhaul of my website and I've decided to start this blog as a creative outlet, a visual scrapbook of the things that catch my eye and a place to post the shots not really appropriate for my website. Thanks for dropping by and hopefully you'll enjoy your visit