New trailer

The newest trailer for The Twilight Ballrooms offers an intriguing glimpse into the unfolding storyline, hinting at the shadowy forces shaping its mysterious world.


Movie Diary ep8

A demonstration on the wonders of stabilising footage from handheld cameras using motion tracking.


Stay Indoors: A Message from Twilight Ballrooms

An important message from the Twilight Ballrooms – released at the start of lockdown.


Doctor Whittaker

An adventure in Time and Space!


Four Men in a Pub – Twilight Movie Diary

Why I decided to play almost ALL the parts myself in a virtual enviroment.


Creating a spooky theatre

An experiment with Rotascoping.



Panarup!

So the last few weeks have been a mixture of different Twilight related projects. Lots of 3d drawing, notably the top of the Twilight tower which has now been added to the Ballrooms. I have also been designing numerous posters from the Twilight’s history. I did something similar to decorate the set when we took …


Softbox lighting

Bought 2x85W softbox lights and stands to use with my green screen from Amazon. There is a slight problem with fluorescent flicker but at the moment I’m putting that down to having a cheapo camera. It’s not too much of a problem at the moment anyhow as you can see in this demo below. The …


Greyscale Gorilla & C4 Cafe

A blog worthy of mention, Greyscale Gorilla This one covers all my favourite subjects on Post Production, namely After Effects, Cinema 4d, Photoshop and others. Some great video tutorials (video tutorials are always the best) and a competition called the 5 Second Project which is very entertaining, check out the superb entries, inspiring stuff. All …


Red Giant Software

Not only a great selection of post-production software and add-ons, the website also has a great selection of videos and tutorials on how to get the best out of these products. From Grading software with fabulous presets, to lens flares, text effects (including the ubiquitous Matrix generator), vintage effects, state of the art video noise …


Movie Poster Font

Give your movie poster a touch of class by using that font Hollywood uses on the base of all of its posters.Download it free from www.abstractfonts.comThe small credits “Directed By, Written By, Produced By” etc… are all achieved using one lowercase letter shortcuts. There are also extras like DVD and Caption logos and much more. …


Creative Cow

This website is worth checking out. Click for more info


tutsplus.com

Tutorials for photoshop, webdesign, after effects, vector graphics, cg, audio and much more. Regularly updated, the tutorials are either on video or on well illustrated instructions. They are also in plain English. So whether you’re an expert or a novice, you’ll pick up some handy tips and tricks on this site. Visit tutplus.com


Site of the Year – Video Copilot

Without doubt the best website for anyone using or wishing to learn Adobe After Effects