Visual Effects and Compositing Video Demo

Whilst at the University of Sussex in Brighton, I had to create a 30 second long visual effects clip using After Effects, it was composited from a variety of clips requiring green / blue screening, with graphics being built and tracked onto the laser ‘gun’. Finally the whole composition had artificial camera shakes applied and was colour corrected.

Video Effects & Compositing Assignment from Ben Collier on Vimeo.

Last.fm Disco!

Go on last.fm and paste the following into the address bar:

javascript:function toggle(){
t=setTimeout("toggle();return false", 300);
LFM.Display.colourToggle(this, LFM.String.toRedStr, LFM.String.toBlackStr); return false;};
toggle();
return false;

and hit return!

(However, It seems to go a bit weird if you’ve got multiple browser windows open..)

Site Seeing – Week Three

Css Desk – An Online CSS Sandbox

http://cssdesk.com/

A great web app for playing around with HTML and CSS in the browser, would be interesting to see if it works on the iPad.

Pictaculous – A Colour Palette Generator

http://www.pictaculous.com/

Pictaculous (from MailChimp) lets you upload or email a photo and then generates a colour palette from it. You can email (color@mailchimp.com) straight from your iPhone and get a reply complete with your colour palette results. It also suggestion palettes from kuler and COLOURlovers.

A Comparison of Dedicated Servers By Company

http://www.intac.net/

This chart from Intac shows the ridiculous amount of servers Google are estimated to have:

Chart showing the comparison of dedicated servers

Who owns the most servers?

You made it this far, have a song – Metronomy – You Could Easily Have Me (spotify)