3D Lace at Edge Of Urge

3D Lace at Edge of Urge from oliver mellan on Vimeo.

Easter, MeshWarp

Digieffects FreeForm 3D MeshWarp

with the exciting announcement that Digieffect's plugin Freeform will be bundled with Adobe After Effects CS5, we split the two main functions into two, and are selling them for cheaper.

They are exciting pieces that allow you to manipulate a lot of things in 3D, in after effects.

Here is the Marketing video I made for one of the products,

Freeform 3D Meshwarp secretfile from digieffects on Vimeo.

and a tutorial. using some pretty simple animation, we are able to create a cool real 3D animation.

FreeForm 3DMeshWarp - Open Heart Surgery Tutorial from digieffects on Vimeo.

Early

Annie and I made a trip up to durham to see a band we saw 2 years ago at the Primavera music festival in Barcelona. they are called A Place To Bury Strangers. it was an excellent show, they were loud and destructive. A very good show. The visuals gave me lots of ideas for live performance stuff.

]here is their myspace.

http://www.myspace.com/aplacetoburystrangers

check them out. if you like that shoegaze noise and dark beats. you'd like the noise these guys make.

They were followed by Big Pink, which were good as well. from London.

The rest of our stay envolved meeting up with our mothers. walking dogs, sunset dinners, and lounging with grandmother lizz. and a quick hospital visit.

Chocolate & Strawberry

here is a music video I just completed for a band from Singapore. they are called Stellarium, the track is called Chocolate & Strawberry.

If you go to the vimeo page, you can watch it fullscreen http://vimeo.com/10554464

Stellarium - Chocolate & Strawberry from oliver mellan on Vimeo.

The video is made using several different films from the Perlinger Archive at archive.org . (could have been a 6x1 project)

The digital distortion was created using digieffects awesome plugin Damage.

http://digieffects.com/

I really like this combination of old film-stock grain mixed with digital and analog distortion and how they seem to fit the sound of the song.

It was a fun experience working on this. getting a tight cut of images then going in and adding distortion and trying to make that a vital character in the visuals, because its such a vital part of the song.

The monkeys are from a bicycle safety video. it too is very, strange and creepy.

http://www.archive.org/details/OneGotFa1963

Im excited with the end product, and Im excited about working more with this band. the singer/guitarist and I have been gmail chatting about some video to play at their shows among other things that he has given the name "visual assault".