Baby J

A brief clip from the unnofficial music video I made to LJKruzer’s song “Just Like Watching the Saints” which was to be premiered at his performance at the Electronic Carol Service in 2005ish. I then adapted the footage into the Spectralists’ visuals.

The film is a version of the Nativity played by robot toys. When the 3 Wise Men come from the distant lands of Argos, Index and Toysrus they discover the Child King is a hyper-evolved sort of future-organic android with fantastic powers and glory all around. The original footage was made very quickly indeed- I will probably rerender it and post it here some time.

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Forbidden Planet

Created for the stage production of the musical “The Forbidden Planet”- the set was the inside of the space-ship with the projector screen for the cockpit window. I designed and made the monstrous manifestation of Prospero’s Id.  In this scene the beast glares in while it’s giant rubbery tentacles dangle down from the ceiling of the set to menace the actors.

The design is intended to capture the essence of wonderfully bad 1950’s scifi- the monster contains echoes of Robbie the Robot and Emperor Ming.

It’s one of my earliest animations, but I still really like it!

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Ranger Biff

An experiment in designing, modelling, rigging and animating a low poly games-style character.

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The Spectralists Showreel

This is a showreel of the Spectralists sound reactive visuals we perfomed many times, at our own audio-visual night Acid Skiffle, and in London for all manner of shows. See this entry for more details.

Lots of filmclips juxtaposed in twisted ways, intersperced with my animated characters. The modelling and animation is very basic- that’s because the VJ software we used only supported animated 3DS files at the time, so no deformations or rendering of any maps besides the diffuse channel.

Oh yes, and the sound-syncing goes wrong almost immediately. Technical issues to do with rendering a sequence that isn’t live! Nonetheless I think it works rather well.

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Masks

masks32 masks, plastic mould completeAn incomplete project. The task was to create grotesque live action marionettes with snapping jaws. The inspiration was Jan Svankmajer’s “Faust”. John, far right, is the original and maybe I’ll finish him one of these days.

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