After Effects flaming fireball test

Heres another technique that i have been working on in After Effects. This time by using a combination of motion tracking, bitmap explosion techniques and a variety of blurs creates this semi-real fireball effect. It still needs a lot of tweaking however to achieve a truly realistic effect. See video below for some initial tests. Continue Reading…

Darwiin Wii remote test with OSX and Halo - Video tutorial

I recently came across the Darwiin remote App from the developer Hiroaki. At first (after folowing the instructions) it did not seem to work and after a bit of research it seems there is a slight bug. what u have to do is connect the Wiimote via Bluetooth wait for the error then restart the App and connect again and it works fine. Continue Reading…

A few more motion tracking Experiments

Below are some of my older tests that i have conducted while using the interactive mirror, the tests include, The neon lights, The movie clip attach method (still buggy as hell but getting there) and finally the Ice fire (Original source code courtesy of G.Skinner). See below….. Continue Reading…

After Effects - Demon Morph Tests.

I recently found a really nice little tutorial @ Videocopilot.com and thought i would have a bash at it, creating a ghoulish face warp of myself and my wife. I don’t think they turned out too badly, you can check out the results below… Continue Reading…

Interactive mirror V.1.0 user test.

My final tests for the now redundant V1.0 of my interactive mirror application. It transpired that as the lights were so vivid most peoples reflections were lost amongst the graphics. This lead me to go down a completely different route (see previous post).

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