A new development over the last month! I’ve rather belatedly discovered the joy of doing lots of video documentation! For a person who seems to have struggled inexplicably with slow internet or intermittent wifi/internet for years now (damn you telcos and inconvenient travelling plans!) it does take me more time to edit and upload these morsels, but I think the effort is well worth it!

Here is what my time in Australia looked like – featuring: Australian War Memorial, Anzac Day, Last Post, Changi Quilt, Science Museums, Natural History Museums, dioramas, holograms, magic lanterns, pepper’s ghost, parallax barrier grid, lenticular prints, vr goggles, aerial views, optical illusions, transparent OLED touchscreens and other projections and reflective things. And also lots of bugs and birds (because I like bugs and I like birds). Maybe it makes no sense to others (George thought it was “exhausting”??) but surely that short-attention-span 2-second-jump-cut format is still recognisable to all who use instagram/vine/fb?

It was only halfway through my visit that I realised that using video made a lot more sense than using photos to collect visual references (I kinda regret not doing it throughout my entire trip!). So I have to admit that the selection of clips here shows a rather random slice of my time there that just so happened to be caught on video, rather than being representative of my whole time in Canberra/Sydney/Melbourne…

In addition to discovering the joys of video documentation, I decided to make a new youtube channel! But since the channel looked really sad and boring when it only had one video on it, I decided to re-upload a bunch of old videos I’ve made, and then one thing led to another, and now I’ve given them some ALL NEW AND HILARIOUS DESCRIPTIONS!…. (please read descriptions before watching)

THE DBBD YOUTUBE CHANNEL

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCynhKJ773XGc5gqvis0ZaRg

BLENDER SPEED MODELLING

“Hi Everyone. Here is me speed modelling the MBK-12 a few years ago, also known as the B.E.A.R. You might have seen something like it in Battlefield 5. I made my own changes to it, and I have released this as a game asset which is available for free download on the Unity game store. Quite happy with this one, but admittedly its really not my best work considering the evolution of my 3D skills since then.”

CG ANIMATION EXPERIMENT

“Hi guys, here’s an experiment in crowd dynamics made with Miarmy for Maya, which I made as a previs for this personal CG animated short film that I’m trying to finish in my free time. It’s going to be a thrilling Post-apocalyptic Zombie-Alien-Invasion-meets-Counter-Historical-Fantasy science fiction thriller with lots of drama and emotion, and mental acrobatics. You can probably see where I’m going with this example.”

DIY SLIME TUTORIAL

“HI EVERYONE! TODAY’S VIDEO IS A DIY SLIME RECIPE TUTORIAL, ITS SUPER EASY AND FUN. SORRY ABOUT MY VOICE, MY MIC IS A BIT OLD SO ITS NOT PICKING UP EVERYTHING, I’M JUST TURNING 12 AND MY MOM WON’T GET ME A NEW ONE TILL CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR. THANKS FOR WATCHING! ITS GONNA BE AWESOME! LOVE U GUYS”

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