Okay, been making some minor tweaks around the site. The front page will soon have the latest version of my showreel. The Twitter feed on the About Me page seems to have broken so I have taken it away. Not sure what will replace it at the moment.
The Animus: Runaways Trailer is now online, and the final touches are being added to the full length short.
My brother’s web site, which I have helped with the design work on, has been updated as well, so check that out too.
UPDATE
It’s been a while in the making but I decided to update the look of the website and continue making the changes I started the other day. Enjoy the new look.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
RIP: Geocities
I found out this morning that Geocities, the site that hosted a ton of free sites during the 90s, including several of my own, closes down today. To commemorate this event, XKCD has undergone a redesign. Sadly this was the level of web design that people who had never had the opportunity to make and host a web site were suddenly able to make with the free website. I couldn’t let this event go unmentioned.
UPDATE:
In unrelated news, I have just made a major overhaul to my brother’s photography website, go check it out.
UPDATE:
In unrelated news, I have just made a major overhaul to my brother’s photography website, go check it out.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Animus: Runaways Wrapped
As they say in the business, That’s a Wrap!!! No time for a party yet, but that is a wrap. Animus: Runaways has finished filming and now awaits a few tweaks (mostly sound effects and music) before it makes it’s debut.
It has been a couple of months in the making and just kept extending and extending as things went on in people’s lives, and as the vision got grander and grander. Originally intended to be a short involving a couple of characters from Animus (A role-playing game my friend Jexus runs from his web site) being chased, it reached the end of the short, and it was unfulfilled. So I kept writing and it grew into what it is now. I have pitched it to people as the opening episode of a series, it doesn’t resolve all the plot lines in a neat bow at the end, some even reveal themselves in the concluding scenes, but they will evolve over the course of the season. It would be a short season, a mere 5 episodes, but I have been plotting recently and things may move forward with further adventures from Peter, Penny and Kim.
It has been a couple of months in the making and just kept extending and extending as things went on in people’s lives, and as the vision got grander and grander. Originally intended to be a short involving a couple of characters from Animus (A role-playing game my friend Jexus runs from his web site) being chased, it reached the end of the short, and it was unfulfilled. So I kept writing and it grew into what it is now. I have pitched it to people as the opening episode of a series, it doesn’t resolve all the plot lines in a neat bow at the end, some even reveal themselves in the concluding scenes, but they will evolve over the course of the season. It would be a short season, a mere 5 episodes, but I have been plotting recently and things may move forward with further adventures from Peter, Penny and Kim.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Emergency Services Bingo
Been meaning to write this up for a couple of days now, since talking about it with my friend Carl over MSN. Now, while waiting to hear back from the people at the Job Centre about the job interview I had yesterday, seem to be the perfect time. We were talking about a topic we hadn’t discussed since we had been at University, ‘How many emergency vehicles have you ridden in?’
Things hadn’t changed much between then and now, he had still only ridden in an Ambulance and a Detective’s Car, both of them for incidents involving him. I have ridden in an Ambulance, but I was going as support and supervision for a hockey player while I was their coach, and I had been in the Detective’s car as moral support for Carl following the incident (which wasn’t as exciting as it sounds). Neither of us have ridden in a fire engine, properly (i.e. the fire engine had been called for an emergency involving ourselves).
Finally, after a little bit of debate, it was decided that there were two levels of “Emergency Services Bingo”. Level 1 involves riding in an Emergency Services vehicle when it has been called for you, while Level 2 involves riding in an Emergency Services vehicle as moral support for someone else. Emergency Service Vehicles cover Fire Engines, Ambulances, Police Cars and Coast Guard vehicles (we didn’t actually discuss whether the boats and helicopters should count as the same or different vehicles, I will have to ask him).
Oh, and if you are wondering, I am waiting to hear back from the Job Centre about a temporary Christmas role at my local Gamestation. My fingers are crossed tightly, and hopefully I will have a job until January.
Filming is nearly finished for the Animus short I am currently working on. I have been planning out the major plot arcs for the following episodes, although I would really like to film them, looking at them it isn’t likely to happen.
ADDITIONAL:
Having talked it over with Carl, we have decided:
That Coast Guard boats and helicopter count as the same emergency service, you do get more shiny points if you get both, but you can claim level 1 from just one vehicle.
That Detective Cars count the same as Police Cars, because while they are slightly less flashy, the detectives are of a higher rank, and therefore it balances out.
I forgot to add breakdown vehicles. The AA ran an advert claiming to be the fourth/fifth emergency service, and all breakdown services use specialised vehicles that are not available for the general public. They have a slightly different ratings system, Level 2 is awarded if you are the passenger in a vehicle, while Level 1 is for the driver.
Things hadn’t changed much between then and now, he had still only ridden in an Ambulance and a Detective’s Car, both of them for incidents involving him. I have ridden in an Ambulance, but I was going as support and supervision for a hockey player while I was their coach, and I had been in the Detective’s car as moral support for Carl following the incident (which wasn’t as exciting as it sounds). Neither of us have ridden in a fire engine, properly (i.e. the fire engine had been called for an emergency involving ourselves).
Finally, after a little bit of debate, it was decided that there were two levels of “Emergency Services Bingo”. Level 1 involves riding in an Emergency Services vehicle when it has been called for you, while Level 2 involves riding in an Emergency Services vehicle as moral support for someone else. Emergency Service Vehicles cover Fire Engines, Ambulances, Police Cars and Coast Guard vehicles (we didn’t actually discuss whether the boats and helicopters should count as the same or different vehicles, I will have to ask him).
Oh, and if you are wondering, I am waiting to hear back from the Job Centre about a temporary Christmas role at my local Gamestation. My fingers are crossed tightly, and hopefully I will have a job until January.
Filming is nearly finished for the Animus short I am currently working on. I have been planning out the major plot arcs for the following episodes, although I would really like to film them, looking at them it isn’t likely to happen.
ADDITIONAL:
Having talked it over with Carl, we have decided:
That Coast Guard boats and helicopter count as the same emergency service, you do get more shiny points if you get both, but you can claim level 1 from just one vehicle.
That Detective Cars count the same as Police Cars, because while they are slightly less flashy, the detectives are of a higher rank, and therefore it balances out.
I forgot to add breakdown vehicles. The AA ran an advert claiming to be the fourth/fifth emergency service, and all breakdown services use specialised vehicles that are not available for the general public. They have a slightly different ratings system, Level 2 is awarded if you are the passenger in a vehicle, while Level 1 is for the driver.
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