indefinable magic

Early approximation of Technicolor. And Techniscope!

Testing Technicolor

A test render of Daleks.  This is rendered straight from Blender, with no post-production to match a Technicolor environment.  Looks nice enough, but at nearly sixteen minutes to render one frame, it's not really feasible for video at 24fps...

  

And as might be found

...in a BBC studio in 1963...
 

Brachacki TARDIS

Had a day off today with nothing to do, so I built a Peter Brackacki Hartnell TARDIS.

New Series TARDIS Console Room

Morning

Because I made a bunch of stuff well before the creation of this website, I thought I'd revisit some of it here and repost things.

The following video is one of the earliest 3D animations I made, from Spring 2008 sometime.  As I've shown two other TARDIS console rooms here, it seems right to show the third.  I could make it a lot better now, but it's not too bad.  Technically it's quite inferior.  It was intended to try out a shot that I don't think the BBC have had a go at yet.  I like the way the camera ends up in a place that didn't exist at the start of the animation.

The bit at the end is a bit of bonus fluff to pad out the vid.  Enjoy it as you will!

Edge of Destruction TARDIS Control Room in Blender

Evening,

I made a short video to show of my 3D William Hartnell-period TARDIS.  I hope you like it...

Frenetic energy and moping like a spaz

I know I shouldn't whinge, but rendering is quite the most frustrating thing about producing a piece of CG video art, especially when something's not quite right and you have to set another twenty or so hours aside to do it again.

That said, it's usually worth it in the end, for that sense of completion.  I always get a massive come-down at the end of some project or other though, and mope like a spaz for days until the next burst of frenetic energy that's going to consume every waking hour comes along, and it all starts again.

I'm rendering right now, to finish a piece of work, but I'm really planning another video to come eventually, if I can get it to work...

The Dalek Invasion of Skaro seems to have been quite wonderfully well-received, though the difficult thing always seems to be getting people to see it.  Something like 55 shots in that one though, all rendered.  Imagine how long *that* took...

- Andrew

Daleks!

Hopefully I'll soon be able to get this site up and running properly and tidy up the edge bits, but I'm busy watching Genesis of the Daleks right now, so I can't.  Watching it for research...

Talking of Daleks, here's the latest video I've been making.  It's got about three hundred Daleks in it, and features some nice set recreations and a bad Dalek impression by me.  Hope you find something to enjoy in it.