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Thought I’d try out some match-moving and compositing with Blender 2.8 beta with Eevee. I’m used to using Boujou and After Effects and wanted to see how it compares.

The new MUTO ‘Cloud Party’ video is out and we did the vfx work. The work involved photogrammatry, re-topology and match-moving CG elements into chosen shots.

Another little project to help get some workflows down in Blender. I was inspired by the poodle moth. I really like the stocky structure to the insect and thought it would be a great basis for a robot.

Everytime I visit my dad’s house I religiously take a photo of the chest of drawers in the hallway. The many instances of drawers along with a dimly lit hall with a bright light at one end make for a great visual.

It’s been mostly animation that’s been going through the studio so I thought it would be fun to put together a 3D illustration. It started off as a quick mock up experimenting with some volumetric atmospherics and ended up being very handy in getting a solid workflow from Lightwave 3D to Substance Painter and back to Lightwave and Blender for rendering.

Started an ArtStation account for myself and a SketchFab account for Formation.

New 2017 showreel finished up for Formation! Featuring work for Asda, Google, Duracell and more. For more information please visit out studio website at: weareformation.com or contact us at: hello@weareformation.com

Day trip to Margate! Shot on a Sony A7RII with EF Tamron 24-70mm and Sony 10-18mm and a few shots from a Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

I loved using the GH2 and was a little disappointed when the GH3 was announced to have a larger body. That’s why I like to think of the GX80 as a spiritual successor to the understated GH2. I think the form factor is ideal for casual street shooting as it doesn’t stand out as a particularly ‘professional’ camera. Continue Reading

I was approached by Movidiam for a short interview on there film-making platform.

Trying out the Sony A7RII in full frame mode exclusively. The image performs much better than I was expecting. There are a few wide shots with quite bad moire but I feel much more comfortable using the full frame mode when the type of shot requires it.

Heading to the big apple for filming, photography and a whatever else I can fit in! If you know of anything cool going on the from the 20th to the 27th of September let me know!@louisdumont

Close to finishing up material work on another CG object to add to the list. I’m try out the timelapse windows tool chronolapse while working on this one so I’ll post up a video of it being made soon!

I’ve just come into possession of a snazzy Voigtlander Nokton 25mm for a fast 50mm equivalent for micro four thirds. So far my feelings are kind of mixed, the wide open performance show fairly heavy chromatic aberration so I thought I’d pit if against the trusty Panasonic 20mm pancake lens and share my findings, for those that are interested. Continue Reading

Finished a little natural light photoshoot for Cassie Gallagher’s upcoming store of handmade items. First portrait shots I’ve taken with the Tamron 24-70mm VR and I think it performs very well, sharp centre, quite a strong light falloff at the edges, which can compliment portraits 🙂  Continue Reading

Got snazzy salt and pepper shakers from a friend which functioned as perfect subjects for a little RAW workflow test on the 5D Mark III. Both Transcend 1000x cards performed well at 24fps / 1080p and the Lexar USB 3.0 card reader pulled off the raw files at over 100MB/s.

Using RAWanizer to convert to dng and various proxy files is a dream, you open a folder and see all clips listed with a start, middle and end preview, which you can then add to queue and get tiff and mp4 proxy files too.

The Panasonic LX7 has a pretty snazzy 100fps high speed video mode (for the PAL version of the camera, 120fps for NTSC), however it looses all its manual exposure goodness to achieve it, as well as dropping to 720p. Here’s a few clips taken at lunch. It’s great to know these kind of frame rates are attainable in a compact camera, it gives me hope for future high frame rate endeavours on a budget.

Yay, just finished a new website and showreel. Moving on from the 2create.co.uk to a more personable online identity.