Digital Anthill

Fireworks… YAY

So it was bonfire night last night which means fireworks time!

I thought it would be a wicked opportunity to get a time lapse of some fireworks because I hadn't really seen it bin done before.

Here it is..

Nottingham Fireworks Timelapse from Rob Antill on Vimeo.

(Vimeo wont let me upload more than one HD video a week so this is only in standard deff. Ill re upload next week)

I'm really pleased with how this turned out some of the photos are wicked. You can watch it again and again because there is so much stuff happening! The music is from the film ‘Moon’(amazing movie) its called ‘Welcome To Lunar Industries – Clint Mansell’

Here are some cropped stills from the Time Lapse.

Enjoy :)

Changes..

So I had made some business/contact cards in the summer (Click Here) and although I was happy with the design and the layout I needed to change a few things..

Firstly was the title, It read THE DIGTAL ANTHILL. There was no need for the ‘THE’

I got rid of GRAPHIC and ART, mainly because I don't really do that much any more. Also having just VIDEO, 3D, ANIMATION, WEB and PHOTO correlates with the images on the card.

I also changed the details at the bottom. I had made a mistake with the email address on the last card, it read robertantill.gmail.com should have been a @ sign not a dot.

I have got rid of my name on the card now as well. I think having ANTILL and ANTHILL on the same thing is confusing. Because my website is under the domain robantill.com I decided I would need to change this also. I looked at getting Digitalanthill.com but its taken (nothing on that domain, some one must have just brought all the domains digitalsomething). So I looked for a a bit and found that Digital-Anthill.com wasn't taken!! I got that and Robertantill.com (before another Robert Antill takes it grrr) from godaddy for about £13 for the year.

So here it is..

I think its an improvement over the other. although during writing this post I have noticed a mistake :(. There shouldn't be a www. in front of the digitalanthill.blogspot.com because there isn't one in front of the digital-anthill.com oh well not a massive problem I guess (its just going to bug me forever..)

I have also made changes to my site! changes made mainly made to the video section of it.. feedback would be awesome :)

Check it out from one of these links ;p

www.robertantill.com

www.robantill.com

www.digital-anthill.com

Next thing to do is set up a Html Only site with a super basic portfolio. so it only shows what needs to be shown. My plan is to have a page on digital-anthilll.com with three basic links, one to my blog, one to the flash site, and one to the html portfolio.

Enjoy..

Sheffield Trip Round 3

Yet another Wednesday spent in Sheffield ski village.. This week I thought I would take some time lapses and play around with the flash.. Vie decided that if I'm going to get good night pics I will need to invest in a good flash (xmas present?).

Here are the better pics from the trip..

Click for high res..

Another quick edit.. I need to get as much editing practice in for my uni projects and the big trip in the new year!

Recent Sheffield Trip video part 2

Put this together in a couple of hours..

The song was from an old skate video (yeah right) its such a wicked tune to edit to.

Enjoy..

Nottingham Snowsports Sheffield trip 28.10.09 from Rob Antill on Vimeo.

Game city Stewarding round up..

This week has been incredibly busy with stewarding and Uni projects!!

Day one: Wednesday 28th Nov

This was the first day of stewarding for me. I had to be there for 8 am which is always a horrible time. spent a couple of hours sorting things out and getting ready for the public to arrive at 10.

Here is the tent in market square.

I was working on the Indicade section. It was fun to play the games and help people out.

Day Two: Thursday 29th Nov

The second day I was looking after the Lego Rock band that hasn't been released yet. People were playing and we had to judge them and ask them to come back on the Sat to play in front of a crowd. It was quite fun but got quite boring after 5 hours of doing it!

Day Three: Friday 30th Nov

This was such a good day! I got to the tent for 8 am again this was another very early start for me :p! I was assigned to the Crysis live section of the tent. My job for the day was mainly going to be helping people put on a suit so they could play the game.

Because I was one of the first stewards there Rob the director of Crysis Live came over to me and asked if I wanted to fill in for one of the army cadets that didn't turn up! I instantly said yes! So I got kited up had a quick briefing on what to do etc. we then did some filming for the Crysis website..

Here’s the set. The player came in from the right they then had to make their way across the room to the collect the laptop in the shed then get back.

These were the weapons we were using. They were pretty powerful BB guns. Fully automatic :).

Here I am ready to take some people out :) as you can see I didn't quite have the military grad shoes!

I ended up working 3 and a half hours more than I was meant to which meant I was there till 5.30pm. We only got a 20 min break as well so by then end I was pretty tired. But it was totally worth it!

Day Four: 31st Nov

This was a the last day. they had cleared out the tent and set up a stage at the far end for the Lego rock band.

I was stewarding Indicade again this time it was a little boring. It basically involved stopping members of the public closing down the games and going on internet explorer!

Here Jon is playing the Drums on stage.

After it all finished we then had to start packing it all away. this involved mainly picking up a lot of Lego that was scattered all over the place! me and Jon helped the Lego guy take down one of the big Lego figures. Although it wasn't solid it weighed Loads!!