On October 9th, 2008 college students from many colleges in Munster gathered to the streets of Cork to protest the Governments planned reintroduction of colleges fees. According to some sources more than 6,000 students attended the event. [Vimeo 2357064] The event was shot with a Canon GL2 I just bought recently, aside from random test [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Footage of the October Protest against the reintroduction of fees
Posted in Events, tagged aaaaargh, canon gl2, fees, keith o'brien, munster, protest, ucc on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How to create animated snowfall using Blender
Posted in Cork Christmas Carol, tutorial on November 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
( Note: This tutorial is outdated, follow the more up-to-date and complete version from this link ) First off credit goes to the author Darek for creating the Blender tutorial that I decided to build this tutorial on top of, so from my perspective he did all the hard work. You can check out the link [...]
Cork Christmas Carol: Introduction to Production Blog
Posted in Cork Christmas Carol, tagged Blender, Cork, Cork Christmas Carol, GIMP on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As previously stated by Patchy, we are going to keep a production diary of the first Gifted Babies Christmas Special, tentatively called Cork Christmas Carol. Patchy will post concept art, storyboads and production photos. I’ll be covering FX stuff, specifically how I give Cork a white Christmas using open source software such as GIMP and [...]
Cork Christmas Carol: A New Era in Xmas Films That Rip Off Dickens
Posted in Cork Christmas Carol, tagged Carol, Christmas, Cork, Cork Christmas Carol, Film on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was the 6 O’Clock in the morning, suffering from a touch of insomnia. To occupiy my mind, I tried thinking of movie ideas. I was currently struggling with two concepts. One was a Christmas sequel of Trippers Through Time (Trippers 2ugh Time) and the other about a couple that solve crimes. The former was [...]
Looks like RTE Storyland is a no show for us
Posted in Film Competition, tagged rte, storyland on November 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
15:32, Sunday 16th of November, myself and Piratehelm flipped a coin to help us decide whether or not we should go ahead with submitting our entry to the RTE Storyland competition. Tails, whichs means we’re not going to go ahead. The initial plan for today was to finish off the rest of the submission material [...]
Virtual Cinema – Irish Film Board
Posted in Film Competition, tagged budget, Irish Film Board on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Worth a try? About Virtual Cinema Virtual Cinema is a new scheme for the making of high-quality short films that are suited to the new forms of digital video consumption. Films made under the scheme can be fiction or non-fiction, live-action or use any kind of animation technique. The deadline for Virtual Cinema 2008 is November [...]
Film Festival Review
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote a short review of the 53rd Film Festival. The link is: http://www.pluggedin.ie/content.php?id=10 Peace







