discrete

In to the City

milner — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:30:29 +0000

I really like this tune, it goes one for an age but it does have a nice atmosphere.
And for once I didn’t ruin it with some shit vocals

in to the city

Under Angry

milner — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:22:02 +0000

This is a tune I am almost completely pleased with, again vocals let it down – but not as much as some of the other stuff I have put up here. Tt was done circa 2002, and judging by the lyrics I clearly didn’t have a girlfriend when I wrote them. More than a few people have asked if I take a lot of drugs after they hear this song – I don’t, it’s just an over-active imagination.

Under angry

Saturday Night

milner — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:52:15 +0000

Half finished attempt at Dubstep. After dubstep went rapidly downhill from about 2008 onwards, I decided not to bother any more

Saturday Night

Flaming lego sword

milner — Wed, 25 May 2011 18:21:04 +0000

This was a takeover banner for Nijago LEGO – giving the user the control of a flaming 3d lego sword with which they could chop up a website.

It was done at Aardman Digital and the client was McCann Bristol

The sword was built by a low poly modeler and then converted in to .awd model for the 3d engine.
The backgrounds were designed by Gav Stange and animated by Sun and Moon.

I used Away 3d to load in the model and handle all of the sword movement / interaction and the particle effects were done using Flint particle system

The effect of cutting and slicing was done by firstly drawing a path that followed the tip of sword, the thickness of the path was determined by its velocity. I then drew the part of the line I had drawn each frame, directly to a bitmap. This was to keep the performance as high as possible.

The effect of the pieces falling out was done by checking each frame for intersection between the last section of the cut made, and all the previous sections (using this kind if technique http://www.gotoandplay.it/_articles/2006/08/vectors.php). If an intersection was discovered, I would draw the foreground image data within the loop I had just created, animate it falling, changing colour and turning. Then chop that loop out of the list of previous sections to check against. I’m not going to go in to any more detail than that because I can hear you yawning already, but there were a load of issues with bitmap data alpha channels and the such.

If you are trying to do any of the things I mentioned and are having trouble, please feel free to contact me and I’ll give you more info.

I’ll hopefully be able to get a working demo up soon, but until then you can watch this slightly un-exciting youtube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcY7RHNBfC0

Untrained Ear – Sky’s the Limit

milner — Sun, 22 May 2011 11:23:47 +0000

Chilled song
Sky\’s the limit

Untrained Ear – 5 Ways

milner — Sun, 22 May 2011 11:21:17 +0000

The same story from 5 different points of view
5 ways

Untrained Ear – MTV

milner — Sun, 22 May 2011 11:19:37 +0000

I really like this tune
MTV

Untrained Ear – Escape Artists

milner — Sun, 22 May 2011 11:17:56 +0000

This is the first tune I ever did for Untrained Ear
Escape artist

Untrained Ear – Stutter

milner — Sun, 22 May 2011 11:15:49 +0000

Really long, tune but there some pretty good bits in it.

Stutter

Experiments with a canon 1.8 prime lens

milner — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:37:00 +0000

I always end up taking endless pictures of fields and woods and like nature and whatever, so I tried to mix it up a bit this time.

I got a little canon 50mm 1.8 prime lens in the post this morning, these are the results.

CCTV Looking like an odd insect

Plum blossom

Some odd pond carpety stuff – nice texture though

Lying in a rainbow

Not sure what sort of flower this is but it’s nice

Just some bricks

some wee flowers

looked cool