Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category

I am writing a presentation for Salford University on thursday and so am going to talk a little bit about Cloud broadcasting. What better example to user than the Gorilla himself GSG . Am going to talk about Ustream and the endless possibilities for producing content ‘by the people for the people’.

How to Stay Productive & Create Great Work

Here is an example of a ‘Choice Story’ film that has provided us with a bit of inspiration for our own film.

Class Project for a Very worthy cause! Take a look & support if you can; The Renman Project…Artists supporting Unicef’s Haiti appeal.

The Renmen Project – www.therenmenproject.co.uk from Glenn Maguire on Vimeo.

Credits:
Logo/Icon Design – Ben O’Brien: Ben The Illustrator www.bentheillustrator.com

Direction – Jon Raffe: www.thunderchunky.co.uk

Audio – Paul Nolan: Audio Post Production, Mastering, FIlm Scoring and Composition

Animation – Glenn: www.sparklemedia.tv

This project was produced to aid the Renmen Project, thanks to everyone involved.

Follow on Twitter: @thunderchunky @paulnolan1980 @BenAndFi @therenmenproject @sparklemedia

www.therenmenproject.co.uk

‘Renmen’ is the Haitian word for Love, the bird in the logo is the Hispaniolan Trogon, the national bird of Haiti. ‘The Renmen Project’ has been brought together by the team at Thunder Chunky and Ben The Illustrator in order to raise funds for UNICEF’s Haiti Appeal.

Throughout 2010 we will be working with a selection of top artists and designers from around the world to create artwork which we will be selling online. Every penny made from art sales will be going to Unicef’s appeal fund.

If you have any questions or would like to get in touch, then please do email us!

hello@therenmenproject.co.uk

Just been doing a bit of Spring (I know its way too early & its cold) cleaning of my Bookmarks folder and came across some great websites for Graphic Designers; tutorials, free stuff, textures etc. Anyways, here they are; 30 Excellent Resources for Graphic Design Freebies by Six Revisions…Colorburned & Bittbox

Hi All, Happy 2010 to everyone and wishing you all the best and a whole heap of success for the year. Apologies I have been very quiet on the blog but have had a bad case of Laryngitis and flu all over the festive period but hey ho! Anyways, gonna kick of the New Year with a post by Abducted Design – ‘A Collection of Visual Inspiration and Useful Tutorials’. Have a good one!

So I don’t think this has been posted already – http://ffffound.com/

It’s an image bookmarking website where you can always find really inspiring creativity of all kinds.

Beware, this website can whip you up into an image/design/font/photography devouring frenzy where you spend hours and hours clicking from one image to the next.

Hope you like!

Screengrab

Courtesy of Spinkleton;

http://www.motionserved.com/

Some nice work there!

Just finishing a short film with The Hatch called Vacuum – the closing motion graphics credits are up on this site.   Started to turn attention to writing a feature that could be filmed for very little money.  The zombie film Colin has been grabbing the headlines lately and I hope it does well but the notion that it cost £45 is clever marketing ploy rather than the truth.  Check out the trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkJZ3FlOWeM.  It took them 18 months to make and it looks pretty good (it’s taken us a year to make Vacuum which is 10 minutes long so hats off to them!).  Puts it in the same canon as Blair Witch and Open Water as ultra low budget horror with a USP that works but £45 is misleading.  Still, looking at the skills on display on this site if the right idea came along and you all worked for a quid each it would be possible to make something truly class for very little money, albeit utilising people’s valuable time and skills, which the Colin filmmakers don’t seem to factored into their budget!!!

Whatever floats your boat digitally, there are some brilliant digital projects with some amazing talent in the work

http://netdiver.net/newsarchive/boty/boty08.php

A fascinating collection of images featuring the bizarre & the beautiful, there’s no shortage of inspiration over at but does it float.