Death Knight Love Story cast: Joanna Lumley, Jack Davenport, Anna Chancellor,...
It’s been distinctly quiet on here for a while, I know. But that’s because Strange Company have been working away on Death Knight Love Story, some of the coolest details of which I couldn’t announce –...
View Article5 Thoughts From A Month With The Oculus Rift
Yep, one of the things that have been eating my time over the last month is the astonishing Virtual Reality headset, the Oculus Rift. If you remember Virtual Reality the first time round, like I do,...
View ArticleMachinima-style Puppetry With Daz3d Characters, XBox Controller And...
I’m trying something new here: since All The Cool Kids Are Doing It, and I am a bloody filmmaker after all, I thought I’d talk about the latest work I’m doing in video rather than text form. So, if you...
View ArticleNew Production Pipeline Test #1
And here’s our first new production pipeline mini-test: facial animation, mocap from Xsens’ MVN suits, procedural landscape, GPU rendering, the works. What do you think? Next step: something with a...
View ArticleA Post Of Pretty Pictures
On Thursday, I decided to take the test pipeline that I’ve developed, and see how much I could push it in terms of scene assembly. So, I set out to create three entirely different scenes within 4 hours...
View ArticleMore VR, Evolutionary Walking and Other Links
Big things are coming! Coming before the end of this month, in fact: watch this space. And it’s not just Strange Company that has exciting news: here’s a quick round-up of the other things that have...
View ArticleTime Travellers Part 6 released with StrangeCo mocap!
Late last year I was involved in doing the motion capture for a very cool, long-running Machinima project in Second Life – Time Travellers, produced by PookyMedia and directed by Russell Boyd. Well,...
View ArticleWatch HOWTO: Demon Summoning now!
IT’S ALIIIIVE! Yes, the thing I’ve been trailering all week is here. Summoning a demon using a YouTube tutorial. What could go wrong? Find out now as disgruntled startup founder Dave attempts to...
View ArticleWill We Soon Be Able To Generate Photo-Realistic Films On Demand? A Reality...
A little while ago I saw a fascinating comment on Hacker News, echoing a sentiment that I’ve seen around the tech community as a whole. Within a few years, video games will be generating...
View ArticleLeap Motion ORION: Yes, The Leap Works Now
So, some time ago, a company called LEAP Motion produced a demo video that looked truly incredible. They claimed to have a new piece of technology, a tiny little box, which would track your hands and...
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