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Pressure in an Empty Space Album Artwork Design

Buchanan – Pressure in an Empty Space released

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I am extremely excited to share the Album Art for Buchanan’s upcoming “Pressure in an Empty Space.” I was tasked with creating the art that had to somehow represent a very deep & personal collection of music – a big challenge but one that was extremely fun. I’m really proud of the result and really glad to have been able to be a part of this project.

Josh gave me an initial brief for this mid last year. We recently settled on a concept and I completed the art right before heading off on my honeymoon. It was a lot of fun being a part of this and I hope it captures the essence of the music it represents!

Read more about my work on this project here on it’s portfolio page.

It’s not possible to say this without sounding biased but this really is an incredible record! This music has been a part of my life these past 10 months straight and I can’t recommend it enough.

It’s available on CD and iTunes now.

[image title=”Cover Art for Pressure in an Empty Space” width=”544″ height=”408″ align=”center” lightbox=”true” group=”PIAES” icon=”zoom”] http://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-04-29_Buchanan_Pressure_In_An_Empty_Space_Album_Cover.jpg [/image] [image title=”I also did the photography used on the album inlay” width=”544″ height=”419″ align=”center” lightbox=”true” group=”PIAES” icon=”zoom”] http://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-04-29_Buchanan_Pressure_In_An_Empty_Space_Artwork.jpg [/image]

 

April 29, 2016
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Michael Wentworth-Bell - Virtual Reality Designer Melbourne

Virtual Reality Demos

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Spent the weekend at the Studio in Footscray working on a new VR Demo – an idea of a completely “Mixed Reality” museum exhibition space. Having heaps of learning as much as I can about this new medium!

[image title=”Working on some Virtual Reality Demos” width=”544″ height=”408″ align=”center” lightbox=”true” group=”VR” icon=”zoom”] http://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-04-17_Micael_Wentworth-Bell_Virtual_Reality.jpg [/image]
April 17, 2016
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Michael Wentworth-Bell Wedding

Site Update – My Wedding and Honeymoon!

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My site has not been updated in some time – my Portfolio in particular. This is because I have recently gotten Married and have spent some time away on a honeymoon adventure with my Wife. We visited Paris and Morocco – 2 extremely different experiences and had the time of our lives!

Here are some photos from our Wedding and Honeymoon Adventure:

 

[image title=”My Wedding” width=”544″ height=”544″ align=”center” lightbox=”true” group=”Wedding” icon=”zoom”] http://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16-04-16_Wedding_02_resized.jpg [/image] [image title=”My Honeymoon in Paris” width=”544″ height=”790″ align=”center” lightbox=”true” group=”Wedding” icon=”zoom”] http://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16-04-16_Honeymoon_00_resized.jpg [/image] [image title=”My Honeymoon in Morocco” width=”544″ height=”703″ align=”center” lightbox=”true” group=”Wedding” icon=”zoom”] http://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16-04-16_Honeymoon_01_resized.jpg [/image] [image title=”My Honeymoon in Morocco” width=”544″ height=”408″ align=”center” lightbox=”true” group=”Wedding” icon=”zoom”] http://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16-04-16_Honeymoon_02.jpg [/image] [image title=”My Honeymoon in Morocco” width=”544″ height=”363″ align=”center” lightbox=”true” group=”Wedding” icon=”zoom”] http://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16-04-16_Honeymoon_03.jpg [/image] [image title=”My Honeymoon in Morocco” width=”544″ height=”363″ align=”center” lightbox=”true” group=”Wedding” icon=”zoom”] http://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/16-04-16_Honeymoon_04_resized.jpg [/image]

 

April 16, 2016
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Boost - Red Royale 3D Animation

3D animations for Boost Juice

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I had a heap of fun over the past couple of weeks working on these 2 animations with Alf Kuhlmann for Boost Juice!

I’ve added more information about these videos to the Portfolio section of my website. There is a dedicated page for the Red Royale video and a page for the Pure Eden Video.

[image title=”Click this image to read more about the Red Royale Video” width=”544″ height=”306″ align=”center” lightbox=”false” group=”GIS” icon=”link” link=”http://thelode.com.au/portfolio/boost-juice-red-royale-promo-video/” link_target=”_self”] http://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Boost_RedRoyale_02.jpg [/image] [image title=”Click this image to read more about the Pure Eden Video” width=”544″ height=”306″ align=”center” lightbox=”false” group=”GIS” icon=”link” link=”http://thelode.com.au/portfolio/boost-juice-pure-eden-promo-video/” link_target=”_self”] http://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Boost_PureEden_03.jpg [/image]
February 25, 2016
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The Riparian Project 3D animation

The Riparian Project DIY Kit 3D Animation

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I’m very excited to be able to share one of my favourite LODE projects from early 2015. This 3D animation was created to detail The Riparian Project’s goal of shifting grazing practices to improve river health.

Envisioned as a looping continuous video without edits, it shows the negative effect livestock cause to rivers and the knock-on effect this has on the entire ecology downstream and in the surrounding environment. By erecting fences along the river to keep livestock out, the river can repair itself and the land around it. Solar powered water troughs allow the livestock to still drink from the river from a safe distance.

This was created for Jen Rae’s PhD exhibition: Art & The Anthropocene on Thursday the 14th of May, 2015.

It will now be installed at the Yea Water Discovery Centre where it will loop continuously.

You can find out more about the Riparian Project on the official website.

I was involved with this project and took the initial script to an animatic, asset creation, animation, shading, lighting, rendering, compositing and the audio soundtrack.

I completed this project in May 2015 and used it as a qualifier for the fantastic new Alembic implementation in Autodesk 3ds Max 2016. You can find some more videos about the production process for this animation on my Channel.

October 23, 2015
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Last days – Raylight’s XrayUnwrap 2.0 crowd-funding campaign

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The popular Italian videogame developer Raylight SRL are currently in the final 5 days of their crowd-funding campaign for XrayUnwrap 2.0.

Raylight have released a lot of their IP in the form of essential workflow plugins for 3ds Max and Maya. All of their tools are ‘best in class’ for their particular tasks, and are extremely fairly priced. I am a huge fan of their Rattle plugin, in particular, and use it almost daily in many animation related tasks.

[image width=”544″ height=”306″ align=”center” lightbox=”true” icon=”zoom”] http://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Rattle_Plugin_3ds_Max.jpg [/image]
Above – Using the Rattle plugin for 3ds Max in production.

XrayUnwrap is a robust UV mapping tool for 3ds Max and Maya. Raylight are seeking crowdfunding to develop and release a vastly improved XrayUnwrap 2.0 to the public. They have a number of perks available to project backers, including free copies of their new UDIM plugin for 3ds Max. Their Dual Quaternion skinning plugin “XrayBlendSkin” is also free to anyone for the duration of the campaign.

 

If you’re at all interested, check out the promo videos, updates and images on their XrayUnwrap 2.0 indiegogo page.

 

June 30, 2015
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Working for Dale De Silva - Oiltinman

Portfolio update – May 2015

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I have recently added 3 projects to my portfolio – they are all projects I worked on for Dale De Silva – Oiltinman.

Here is a summary of what’s been added:

[list style=”list_1″] [li]Graduate Registration video – A Motion Graphics video for the Podiatry Board of Australia. I worked on this at Reel Pictures in late 2014/early 2015.[/li] [li]Inside Health – A 15 second logo animation for the Department of Health. I worked on this project way back in 2012![/li] [li]Web Accessibility – A motion graphics piece created for the Department of Human Services. Like the Inside Health animation above, I also worked on this project in 2012.[/li] [/list]

It was extremely fun working on these 3 projects. I have neglected updating my site and my portfolio for the past 3 years and look forward to sharing more projects soon.

Motion Graphics Backgrounds - Digital Lode

Still Frame – “Graduate Registration Video”

Screenshot - Inside Health Motion graphics project

Still Frame – “Inside Health”

Web Accessibility 3D Modelling - Digital Lode

Still Frame – “Web Accessibility”

May 29, 2015
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3D animation Drone footage

Adding 3D animation to Inspire 1 Drone Footage

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I had a lot of fun at Reel Pictures working on a project shot on the Inspire 1 Drone. We added 3D animation to 4 aerial shots of a 3.5 acre subdivision in Gisborne, Australia.

The aerial footage was shot in 4k by Eye Of The Sky using their Inspire 1 drones. The footage turned out great and amazingly no Lens correction or rolling shutter removal was necessary to get a camera track. The drone’s camera is controlled independently of the drone itself and is locked on a Gimbal so there are no vibrations. Tt also has great auto-focus and auto-exposure.

After tracking the footage we made the estate come to life, adding the boundary lines, fences, structures, roads, trees and animals. This was a fun job and a good opportunity to test out the new Alembic playback-graph feature in 3ds Max 2016. Also made good use of the Animators Toolkit (ATK).

Portfolio item

You can read more about this project in my LODE portfolio.

May 25, 2015
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Stills from the 2015 Toyota Animation Launch

Animated content for the 2015 Toyota Camry Launch

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Reel Pictures recently created a number of animated sequences for the 2015 Toyota Camry Launch in late April. This is the last time a Toyota car will be manufactured locally in Australia and the launch ceremony was held at the Altona Manafacturing plant with over 3000 employees present. The launch celebrated the many different teams responsible for the production of a car, including Design, Powertrain, Resin, and Assembly.

We animated 9 different looping states that could be timed with the on-stage procession. There was also a large circular LED screen that masked the car. The different components would ‘fly’ from the rear screen ‘into’ the ‘pot’ (circular LED screen) which was cooking the car inside. The animations would sync across both screens and the on-stage calls.
[image title=”Animation for the Toyota Camry Launch 2015″ width=”544″ height=”403″ align=”center” lightbox=”true” group=”PODBA” icon=”zoom”] http://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2015-Toyota-Camry-Animation_02.jpg [/image] This was a great project to have been a part of and there is more information about the Launch and the state of the Australian Car manufacturing industry on the Age Newspaper website.

[image title=”Animation for the Toyota Camry Launch 2015″ width=”544″ height=”318″ align=”center” lightbox=”true” group=”PODBA” icon=”zoom”] http://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2015-Toyota-Camry-Animation_01.jpg [/image]
May 4, 2015
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Lana_Lights_Goosh_Featured

“Goosh” shown at Lana Lights 2015, Italy

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Goosh was unveiled at the Lana Lights projection festival 2015 this weekend. I created “Goosh” in collaboration with Alf Kuhlmann and Erin McKimm. It is an illusionary architectural projection bringing the disused Zuegg jam and juice factory in Lana, Italy to life as it is filled with Jam.

You can read up more about the event and our artwork on the Lana Lights website.

You can view a live recording of the show below and find out more about this artwork on my portfolio page (coming soon!).

April 26, 2015
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