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The ever-productive Knellotron (Chris Larkee) created a video for my vintage track Esign a while back, and so I thought I’d give it another mention now that I’m here on the new site. Chris created the whole thing from start to finish using nothing but open-source software, and you can read more about the video’s history on Chris’ blog here. I’m pleased to learn that Chris’ work hasn’t gone unnoticed, and he’s managed to bag a well-deserved ‘Best Animation Artwork’ award at the 2005 Blender Conference, as well as securing screenings at various film festivals. Good job mate!

I’ve embedded a YouTube-hosted vid below, but if you want a warp-free high quality version with AV timing intact (grr, YouTube!), you can grab a .mov of it from Knellotron.com, or an mp4 and DVD quality mpeg from archive.org.

The audio track itself was created using Ross Bencina’s Audiomulch program, while it was still in its freeware beta stage.

Recently, I’ve been working on editing and remixing the audio for one of the VJ collaborations to be featured on Need For Speed: Carbon, EA’s latest installment of the popular gaming franchise. Six visual artists were commissioned to create short animations inspired by the game, and were supplied with suitable raw materials (videos, images, models etc) to use, should they wish. A friend of mine and long-time Ochre collaborator Patrick Ehrlund was selected to create one of the animations, electing to create a 3D animation from scratch rather than remix the supplied media, with me editing and remixing the existing project audio to fit the animation more closely. It’s a shame YouTube totally throws the tight audio-visual timing out the window, but here’s what we came up with:

All six animations will be included on the collectors edition of Need For Speed: Carbon, and are also doing the rounds on TV ad breaks (at least here in the UK). Keep an eye out for the ad and press the red button on your Sky remote to check them all out.