I recently completed a little animation with the help of incredibly talented Melbourne artist, Blake Raidal. The 30 second clip promotes a new online recruitment agency called MyShortlist.net, and was created using After Effects, Photoshop, and Viz Artist.
The brief from the client was to create an animated advertisement that was dynamic, fast paced, polished, and delivered a clear visual message that complimented the voice-over.
My Shortlist Promo Animation
May 4, 2013
GodWolf – ‘Alone’ Music Video
April 1, 2013
I’ve recently been producer on a music video. A 2-day shoot, shot using the Red Epic. See post below for more info.
Very happy with the results.
Producing a Music Video
March 22, 2013
For the past two weeks I have been frantically producing a music video for Melbourne band, ‘GodWolf’.
We were allocated a very limited amount of time for pre-production, as the band requested the clip be ready for the release of their EP on March 29. However, it all came together relatively smoothly, with a cast and crew of 12, and an ambitious concept. Shooting took place over two days on a large white cyc wall at a studio in Dandenong, and was shot using a Red Epic.
Producer – Thomas Kinsman
Director – Max Miller
Cinematographer – Allyn Laing
1st AD – Yasmin Shevki
Talent – Joe Kosky & Sophie Wright
Camera Ast – Dale Woodrow, Janelle Low, Christiaan Boni
Grip – Austin Haigh
Art Dept – Genevieve Shrayer
Makeup – Emma D
The clip’s concept centers around the idea that two people can share the same space without ever ‘being together’. The concept is explored through the story of a girl and a boy, both coexisting in one room, but without ever knowing of each other’s existence due to their centre of gravity being pulled in opposite directions.
Confused? I certainly was when I read the first paragraph of the treatment, but I can assure you the clip will make perfect sense when you see it…
The launch of GodWolf’s EP will take place at Ding Dong lounge in Melbourne’s CBD on March 29 @ 19:30.
‘Dead Heart of The City’ Short Film Shoot
February 7, 2013
I just came off a short film shoot for local Melbourne filmmaker, Max Miller. The film’s narrative follows the turbulent disintegration of a relationship between two twenty-somethings (played by local actors, Spencer Scholz & Rain Fuller). A last minute addition to the crew, I was invited to the production as 1st Assistant Director, and despite my late arrival to the project, walked out of it satisfied with all I’d contributed. I had a lot of fun, and also came away having met a fantastic new bunch of passionate and hard-working guys and girls.
Image courtesy of Figure09
Update
January 31, 2013
It’s been a while since I last posted an update, but I am happy to say I’ve since kept busy on a handful of new projects. More to come…
Cartoon from the New Yorker by PC Vey.
The SBSB
May 16, 2012
Last week I sat down with Max to cut a promotional trailer for collaborative live-art project ‘The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge’. The experience will be running on the Yarra River as a part of the 2012 Next Wave festival in Melbourne. According to the artists, the project explores notions of perspective, expression, connections, and decision-making. ‘The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge’ featured recently in an article published in The Age. The trailer can be viewed below:
imagraphicartist blog
May 3, 2012
I just started a new blog off the back of a newly discovered enjoyment – drawing posters.
Currently taking requests…
imagraphicartist.tumblr.com
Below is an example of my work.
‘There Was A Man’ – Animation on toilet paper
March 31, 2012
I started this short animation a while back, but only managed to put the finishing touches on it last week.
Each frame was hand drawn on a square of toilet paper using a Sharpie, then scanned on a green sheet ready for compositing in After Effects.
I wish I could give you some backstory to the poem, but like most written by anonymous poets, I guess it’ll have to remain a mystery.
Enjoy.
‘Kappa’
March 17, 2012
Last weekend I spent some time acting in a short for long-time friend David Jackson. From what I’m told, the 5 min Pleasant Productions film is an abstract ode to shared accommodation and David Lynch. Enjoy!
‘Three Questions’ – a short documentary.
February 15, 2012
A Max Milne, Thomas Kinsman, Adam Hunt, and Harry Aronsten collaboration. Recommended viewing in fullscreen mode, and with headphones.
Post-production complete!
January 25, 2012
This Sunday I was enthused to see through the completion of a short documentary I edited called ‘Three Questions’.
The collaborative project took several months to forge, with it’s sound mix and colour grade finally coming together this weekend. Melbourne post wiz Harry Aronsten from Pine Fresh Media recently came on board as colourist on the project, and put a final spit and polish to the pictures. Adam Hunt somehow managed to impress us even more, by showing up with an evocative sound mix and ambient score which really blew both myself and the documentary’s director, Max, out of the water. Weeks after I handed over the final edit, I think I reacted very differently to watching the project in it’s final form. It was both a relief and a shock to see how the marriage of refined audio and pictures, can elevate a film’s overall conviction and coherence, so significantly. It honestly felt as though I was watching a different film.
‘Three Questions’ will be screening at a number of short film festivals in the coming months.
Thanks to Max Milne (Director), Adam Hunt (Sound), and Harry Aronsten (Colourist).
‘A Kaleidoscope of Noise’
December 14, 2011
On Saturday night, I journeyed out to Revolt in Kensington, to film a bunch of the impressive performances that made up the micro sound-art festival ‘Circle Jerk’.
The visceral event took place over the course of 6 hours, and contained approximately 30 sets from some of Melbourne’s most prolific and innovative contemporary sound artists, performing on two dedicated performance areas – one of which contained more than 100 speakers.
The night was an absolute ball-tearing success, and despite the unfortunate scheduling of the Meredith music festival on the same weekend, there was a surprisingly large turnout for the show.
Hats off to the curators.
48 Hours in Lockdown. . .
November 22, 2011
I’ve been in lock-down for the past 48 hours. The last two days have been spent with Adam Hunt and Max Milne, in creative isolation, as we carefully put together the crux of what will certainly become the final cut of the ‘Three Questions’ documentary.
Working out of Adam’s fantastic little backyard studio in Preston, our goal going into the weekend was to bring coherency and form to an immense set of interviews which provide many explanations for fundamental human questions.
It was our mission to discover and explore the connections that exist between common ideas pertaining to God, Death, and Home – to expose the similarities that exist between many different every-day cultural beliefs and concepts.
Kind of voluminous stuff to address, don’t you think? In fact, I’d go as far as to say it’s the most challenging premise I’ve ever had to survey – for that very reason. Where do you start when dealing with something like that? Well, I think now it is safe to say that the answer was to find the simplest method for relating to a character, and use that as the pathway. We focused on the stories they told. And so, three stories have become the crux for each question / answer.
Honestly, I feel like I have been wrenched into a phenomenal investigation surrounding what means to be human. Collaborating with others on this investigation has made it all the more pleasurable – Which I think is funny considering how often I attribute the meaning of life to the collectivist notion ‘work, be with, have purpose’. I guess it’s my own answer to the big questions. . . and if you boil it down, it’s really not so different to anyone else’s.
It’s been a very enjoyable journey so far, and I’ve relished the challenges and ideas the project has presented.
I also had an amazing time collaborating with Max and Adam – two very talented artists in their own right, and I have come away from the weekend feeling completely exhausted and immensely satisfied.
I will now be spending the next week putting the finishing touches on the project’s final edit.
You can see a trailer for the film here: http://pool.abc.net.au/media/three-questions
Adam Hunt is currently curating a sound exhibition called ‘Circle Jerk’, as part of the ‘What is Music Festival’ on December 10th. Details on the show can be found here: http://circlejerk.com.au/about
Mega Delta Force 9 – The VHS Trailer
October 10, 2011
I just posted a new video in the gallery. The video is a faux trailer for a film called ‘Mega Delta Force 9′, and was a little collaboration between Seamus Duffy and myself. As you can probably see, we had a lot of fun with the project, and I owe a big thanks to Justin Gibson, Ben Capp, Max Milne, Bec Hulme, and Jamie-Lee O’Shae for helping out.
Shot on both the Canon 5D and a H-16 REX-5 16mm Bolex, our aim was to present a work that reflects many low-budget ozploitation films of the late 70s and early 80s. At first I was a bit apprehensive about the marriage of film and HD, but I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to treat the high-res video, so that it sat comfortably beside the 16mm film footage. HD certainly has come a long way in the last decade.
New Project
August 21, 2011
I recently begun editing a 10 min documentary for talented photographer and visionary Max Milne (maxmilne.com.au). The project focuses on three fundamental questions relating to spirituality, religion, and death. As broad as the topic sounds, it appears as though Max has managed to collect some fascinating and coherent responses from a diverse slice of the public pie. Each talking head presents a curious perspective on fundamental questions as old as thought itself. After some deliberation regarding mac and pc cross-compatibility, Max and I have chosen to cut the project using Premiere.
This will be the first project in seven years I have edited using Premiere (a program I’d long since abandoned). As such, I’m kind of keen to freshen up on my knowledge of Premiere, and determine if/what improvements have been made to a program I cut my teeth on. Excited to be a part of the project!
First Post
July 30, 2011
Here is my first post, in what will hopefully be a consistent blog that keeps you up to date with the obscure, interesting, mundane, and inspiring.
I wasn’t really sure what to post first, but eventually decided on putting up a frame from a short animation I’ve been working on. As you can see in the pic, the frames are hand-drawn on single squares of toilet paper, which are then scanned on a green background – ready for key and composition in After Effects.
I’ll post the short film in the video gallery when it’s completed.
