Archive for August, 2008

My brother’s band ‘We’ll’ Write’ (The only post-apocalyptic, quasi-acoustic indie-folk duo you’ll ever need) share my own obsession with monsters and other evil creatures, although they explore their obsession through music. Check them out here.

It is thus a happy marriage that I should recently film a music video for their song ‘Measure of a Man’ which naturally concerns itself with the fate of the world through the tender ministrations of giant killer robots, probably with lasers.

Here they are lazing about looking happy between takes.

Watch this space for video of painful death by robots……….

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Another photoshop, this time examining possibilities for the finished look of the thing.

I very much want to get a look that shows off the underlying blood vessels. As it’s an embryo and thus not fully developed I figured you’d see more of this than you normally would on a fully grown creature.

The photoshop has several layers of blood vessels showing through at various levels of transparency.

The final puppet will be cast in semi-translucent silicon over a basic form comprised of rubber blood vessels. This will hopefully approximate what can be seen in the above pic.

Higher res version here: http://www.thedarkpower.com/Embryo/Embryo%20colour%20concept.jpg

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A photoshopped pic of how the final version might look.

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I am currently concerned with embryos. This is being created for a music video.

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Ok, so after literally minutes of trying to tinker with this thing so it’ll fit into the front page of my website, I have admitted defeat and instead decided to have it as a separate page.

It’s partly that I lack the programming skills and patience to alter it sufficiently and also a degree of arrogance on my part that I can make websites fairly well on my own and don’t need to rely on pre-made blog templates.  So ner.

Nevertheless I have to admit that alot of these blog based websites look rather cool and do stuff that I have no idea how to.  They also give you access to a wide audience, who, maybe, will be interested in my rantings and ravings.

Therefore, welcome to my blog.  This will detail the various projects I’m currently working on.  At the minute there seems to be quite a few, so I’m going to do a few posts about each one to fill this in with something worth reading.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I spend most of my time working on models and SFX projects, so that’s what I’ll be waffling about.  Mostly.

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