Canon 7D

I'm in the middle of purchasing one of the new Canon 7D's and a bunch of equipment for the purpose of trying my hand at short film creation as well as filming surf and motocross events.

I'm also doing all this now because I'll be heading over to Japan for around 10 days on November 5 and I wanted to be able to record as much as possible of the trip while I'm over there and cut it into a music video to help me understand more about editing and timing.

So far my Equipment list includes:

• Canon 7D
• Manfrotto 190XB Tripod
  
• 701HDV Fluid Video Tripod Head
• Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens
• Canon EF 50mm f1.8 II Lens
• Lowepro Flipside 300 Camera Backpack
• Hyperdrive Colorspace O UDMA 120GB Photo Storage Drive + AA Battery Case
  
• 2 Camera Batteries
• 2 Sandisk 16GB Extreme 3 Compact Flash Cards
• 2 UV Filters (basically a lens protector)

All this I bought from various places in the US and Australia, searching the internet for the best prices and in the end it all came in at a couple of hundred dollars under $4K.

I'm still waiting for all the stuff I purchased from the US to arrive, some of it (one of the lenses and the tripod) starts getting shipped on Tuesday which should arrive before i leave (it had BETTER) and the protable photo drive will probably arrive this week at some point.

So now I'm all kitted up for the time being (until I get back and save some more money) and don't really have a lot of money to spend in Japan....but at least now I'll have a record of what I did there ^_^

Odosketch

Just some fun messing around with a new internet based sketch tool.

Up

-_- Meh

Time, Where Hast Thou Gone-eth

Sheesh it's already the 23rd of August, what happened.

Work. I've been busy at Ettamogah Entertainment here in Melbourne, finally settled on a place to live and now just need to get myself some furniture (IKEA here i come).

In the last couple of days the Avatar trailer has come out.  People who have seen the 15 minute preview in 3D have been totally blown away by it. Someone was randomly listening to a song by Imogen Heap when watching the trailer and by some crazy coincidence it syncs up perfectly with the trailer, and makes it feel like a more mysterious, epic story. So i cut the two together and made this.

Transformers 2 Review

For the most accurate review on the internet click here

New Work

As some of you who visit this blog may already know, I'll be shifting over to Melbourne on Wednesday the 8th of July to start working at Ettamogah Entertainment on their upcoming animated t.v. series for channel Ten.

So I'll be sadly saying goodbye to all my friends in Adelaide which I've called home for the past 8 years and start a new chapter in my life in the south east of Australia.  I'll be popping back over to Adelaide every so often to visit and catch up with friends though so I won't be completely cut off ^_^

Genius Party DVD Arrives Tomorrow

Two long years after Genius Party was first released in a selected number of Japanese cinemas the DVD has finally arrived in Australia on the 24th.  So tomorrow I'll be trotting down to JB HI-FI to pick up said DVD and watch it until my eyes bleed.

Gobelins Annecy '09 Sequences

So much talent! they must teach AWESOMENESS at this school as a subject.

New-ish Showreel June 2009

Here's a newly cut showreel for some of the previous work I've done. Unfortunately my best work is still under various Non Disclosure Agreements so until they're lifted this will have to do.


June 2009 Reel from Robinhood on Vimeo.

Dolphine Slaughter

As much as I find Japanese culture, language and the country's plants and wildlife intersting, unique and beautiful, they still have a long way to go in respecting the natural world. This is especially clear when it comes to the wholesale slaughter of dolphins, whales and clearing entire forests for housing development.



They are surrounded by so much beauty and life yet they still don't seem to understand that at the rate they are culling these animals and vegetation it could soon be too late to do anything to reverse their actions. The Europeans have already learned this the hard way by pushing many animals to extinction or near extinction before we finally woke up to the fact that over consumption and killing will have massive consequences to the affected species. I really hope that this film wakes people up to what's going on, especially in Japan I hope that people will see this and refuse to buy anything with whale or dolphin in the product.

Genius Party Beyond Arrives

One of the fansub sites I frequent released a subbed version of Genius Party Beyond which when I saw had me grinning from ear to ear in anticipation at finally being able to see this collection of independant artists working on things they wanted.

While the quality of the shorts ranged from "ho hum..next" to "WOWAMAZING!!!" it was great to see artists getting to freely explore ideas even if some were a little bit on the "seen it before" side.

One that stood out far above the rest was Koji Morimoto's Dimension Bomb which instantly and constantly kept blowing my mind at how beutiful a medium animation is.

These still images are so beautiful and yet still don't do the short justice, it has to be seen in motion to truly be appreciated. I was so impressed with just this one short (there are another two in the collection that are also really good) that I decided to buy the Limited Edition box (rock on tax deductions) which not only includes the DVD (if there's anything crying out for a Blu-ray release it's this) but also:

• Genius Party Storyboard Book (590p)
• Genius Party Beyond Storyboard Book (544p)
• Project Genius the Making Book
• 2 Bonus Discs (Making Of and Interviews)

I can't wait to see how this was made and now all i need to do is find someone who can translate the Making Of stuff......that or learn more Japanese.

Toy Story 3

The Truth

Maz Jobrani

For Your Consideration