I watch a lot of video podcasts – or ‘vodcasts’ as the cool kids say – and I have an iPod so I use iTunes. However iTunes doesn’t really handle video very nicely, I much prefer to use VLC. But finding the vodcast file and opening it in VLC is a pain and I can’t [...]

I’ve been doing work experience at AMV over the last month. One of the things that I’ve been working on is a workflow for video assets – managing assets (and information about them) in the file system and between various databases. We set up some ‘chron jobs’ to trigger scripts that interrogate the assets and [...]

UPDATE: I was using this script on my site for a little while but I’ve since switched to a more versatile WordPress plugin called wp-lifestream. I’ve been using a great script from Remy Sharp to pull updates from Twitter (using JSON) and present them using AJAX. It’s a versatile tool but only works with Twitter, [...]

I’ve finished my dissertation, this is it! I chose to research into the area of automatic photograph orientation, with the aim of implementing an application to correctly orientate images of incorrect orientations. I achieved a mark of 78% and was awarded the first prize for a multimedia project from the year. Automatic photograph orientation is [...]

I’ve been working on my project for my Virtual Environments course non-stop for the past few weeks and it’s finally finished! I had to model a museum hallway and create a movie fly-through with a virtual camera. The emphasis was on advanced lighting and texturing as well as choreographing the virtual camera to make is [...]

I’ve just finished my Internet Technologies coursework and it’s brought everything together for me! We’ve been learning about XML, Javascript, CSS, Java servlets, XHTML and AJAX (which I’ve known about before) but now we’ve put them all together. We had to create an interactive crossword game using both server-side (Java servlet) and client side (Javascript). [...]

I’ve been working on these photo-realistic images in my 2nd year computer generated graphics course. Each image is based on a real world scene. Computer graphics modelling and rendering I examined the original scenes, noting down measurements and taking photographs, before translating these into a 3D model of the environment within 3D Studio Max. Producing [...]

This is the Flash simulation I’ve been working on as part of a 2nd year multimedia production course. The watch simulation The coursework was to create a demonstration of a watch using Flash. The challenge was to make it accurate and with interactive features. I’ve used intricate keyframe animation and actionscripting with vector graphics of [...]