Optic CD cover designs

I’ve been playing in the various incarnations of Optic (www.opticband.net) for many years now and our first full length album has just reached its completion. To create the artwork our singer Pia Interlandi did a great job setting up a photo shoot at a local swimming pool and art directing the project. The photographs gave us some fantastic organic and ethereal textures to use in the design.

Credits to

Optic:

Pia Interlandi, Michael Glen, James Dalmau, Peter Agrotis

Photography:

Liisa Triin Vurma and Devika Bilimoria

Multicam Clip Player & Content

A couple of months ago I had the idea of being able to better manipulate time and space within video so we set up a shoot using an array of 10 small cameras roughly forming a semicircle and shot some content of whatever we could get our hands on. This turned out to be flour in water, paper cups, human dancers, a squid in a fishbowl among others. It brought out some really interesting textures which I'll post up when I'm finished working with the data however we do have a custom flash application for delivering the software. At this point it draws on a relatively large library of frames so it's not practical to put the flash file up, but I do have video of it in action which you can find here

for the record this project was developed by
Michael Glen
Kav Singh Brar (special mention for the mega actionscripting)
Robert Jordan

Trenchmouth Records

Trenchmouth Records is a project we managed to get up with the help of funding from the RMIT Arts Union to press a limited edition run of 12" vinyl records containing the most intensecore noise music we can find in Melbourne.

web page here

Channel 31 Promos

Just recently I've had the pleasure of working on some promotional material for Channel 31, The first being a station I.D., created with fellow animator Robert Jordan a few weeks ago and the second being a 45 second opening graphic for the 2008 Antenna Awards (the awards for community television in Australia), which went to nationwide broadcast in May. This shows a segment from the broadcast piece, while the whole project was done in conjunction with John Pedder.

Motion Capture

The bachelor course at RMIT involves a project that spans most of the final year, so a good portion of the start of this year has gone into preproduction and development. As part of the development I've created a system using using a basic form of motion capture to track 3d heads on to video bodies and get facial deformations from live actors. If you're interested I've posted a tutorial on youtube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNn7wBN3xas