If you want to have a future-shock moment and have a reasonably powerful iOS or Android phone, search your phone's store for "Epic Citadel" and install it ( Read more... )

IT'S FINISHED! (well, the first half :) But it's now available for viewing ( Read more... )

Help me out with this: you've just seen an ad / a mention of a new fantasy animated film ( Read more... )

I've now been on the Paleo Diet for 9 months or so. For about 3 of those months I've been meaning - and promising to - write a lengthy update about how I've been finding it ( Read more... )

I've been doing some Machinima history digging - and I'm pleased to say that for the first time in many years, you can now see the first film I ever made. It's arguably responsible for the birth of Machinima.com, my subsequent career, and quite a lot of the way that Machinima has developed. Leave a comment

Right ( Read more... )

And here's our first new production pipeline mini-test: facial animation, mocap from Xsens' MVN suits, procedural landscape, GPU rendering, the works.

It's got a few problems with animation bits, notably the size of the character and the fact he's floating at the end - but aside from that, what do you think?

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Next step: something with a plot.

I've just rendered a file called

"Death Knight Love Story Part 1 - Release Candiate.mp4"

Yes, for the first time ever, I have a version of Death Knight Love Story that could conceivably be released.

Now, we watch it, find all the problems, fix them, and then start the epic run-up to actually putting the thing out there in the wild!

Trying something a bit new: a quick video to show my latest testing of production techniques. It's all webcammy and not post-produced to within an inch of its life, very edgy for me... ( I'm actually slightly nervous about it ( Read more... )

Yep, rather earlier than anticipated, I'm taking Strange Company completely away from game-based films, and into the new world of 2013's independent animation tools.

Here's our first, very early test, and some of the reasons why...http://www.