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The Learning Lighthouse – Digital Photography & Photoshop Session

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:39:43 +0000

I had a brilliant day at the Learning Lighthouse last Thursday where I ran a Digital Photography and Photoshop session for 7-11 yr olds with their parents/ grandfathers and guardians. Each session was only 2hrs long and the children/ adults got through quite a lot and more importantly had a lot of fun learning (then breaking) the rules of Photography. The first part of the session was a practical based learning as the young photographers used digital cameras and we followed the Digital Photography Tips & Tricks Presentation . The group then did an introduction to Photoshop and ‘played’ with making titles and adding filters to their photographs. Here is a gallery of all the final pieces. You don’t have to have Photoshop to edit your photographs, there are lots of free on-line photo-editing software . Well done to all the students now photographers who participated on the course and thanks to the lovely crew at The Learning Lighthouse.

BBC CBeebies Pilot

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:20:38 +0000

Have been really busy with the BBC the last month working with Milky Tea on the production of a CBeebies’ pilot. We shot the pilot over two days in a converted barn down in Hemel Hempstead. It was a fab couple of days and I will post a bit later once we have got going on the project. In the meantime, here are a few shots from the shoot. It was a completely green screen shoot and was shot on DV Cam. Bit of a shame really as i was trying to convince the Beeb to shoot on HD progressive …. but the budget didn’t allow the extra cost for the pilot. Dave the camera man did a class job of filming and DOP’ing. Again, at a later date I will give a detailed breakdown of the shoot and how he lit the event.

Lets get this Graphics show on the road …

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:32:26 +0000

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

Visual Inspiration by Abducted by Design

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:15:41 +0000

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!

Flash Bits & Bobs

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:08:23 +0000

Good little wordpress video about character design;

http://designanimation.wordpress.com/

Brilliant site on how to draw Funny Cartoons;

http://www.how-to-draw-funny-cartoons.com/cartoon-character.html

Good caricature site;

http://www.ubikartun.com/

Active Tutorials

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:05:38 +0000

Here is another great site Active Tuts +