Coffee from Luke Brooks on Vimeo.
While testing out my new camera I put together this short film on making a coffee. Shot with a Canon 7D with a 18 – 135mm f3.5 lens and a 55-200mm lens was used just for the close up of the coffee pour. Edited quickly in premiere and rendered with out any colour grading. Enjoy.
7D Test Footage from Luke Brooks on Vimeo.
If your a tech geek like me, then you would of heard of all the buzz about canon’s new DSLR that just got released a month ago. It is capable of shooting 18mega pixel photos but more impressive is its HD video mode. You can film full HD 1080p and 720p. I just managed to get one of these lovely camera’s and it hasn’t left my side since. This is my first little test video and the quality and DOF (Depth of Field) is just amazing. I used the stock 18 – 135mm lens. Its not the best lens but it is still usable. I edited in After Effects and colour corrected the video as well as added bit of motion tracking just for fun.
Balcony Time Lapse from Luke Brooks on Vimeo.
This is my first shot at Time Lapse photography using a canon 450D DSLR and canon 55-200mm zoom lens. I didn’t expect it to be perfect first time. So I’m quite happy to admit some of the shots light levels were changing and my tripod was being blown by the wind creating a shaky video. I’m sure it will be the first of many.
I used cannon EOS software utlity with about 3 usb extension cables so it would reach my computer. Once I had all the photos I used after effects to composite them together into a video file. At this stage because I was shooting high quality jpegs it was around 4k (4000x4000pixels) which is alot really, too much in fact. I couldn’t even play the file so after a quick crop and export at 720p this is the result.
I know I havn’t been posting much lately as I’ve been busy working on several personal projects and applying for jobs. I’m in the process of building a new portfolio webpage and adding new projects to my folio. This will all take some time and in the end everyone but mainly me will be better off because of it!
In the mean time here are some photos I took using the same process as my video “water colour”.
A very interesting use of conductive body ink, to remake the track “Ready for The Weekend” by Calvin Harris. Using the conductive body ink 15 bikini-clad ladies are turned into a giant Arduino-powered synth capable of playing track, though Max/MSP and Ableton Live. Its like a giant human powerdered midi controller and seems to work quite well.
Steven Spielberg speaking at AFI in 1978. After studying animation and film, his words could not be more true to me.
via ProLost
My short audio/video piece “Water Colour” was selected for the finals of the Blue Banana Video Art Contest/Exhibition in Landau, Germany/Bavaria, on July, 18th. I wish I could visit but unfortunately its a bit far for me to travel on such short notice. I can’t wait to see photos of the exhibition and hope everyone enjoys the work I’ve done. Good luck to everyone envovled and competing!
For more info see: http://www.bluebanana-contest.com (I hope you can read german though)
About Page (Google Translated)
Press Page (Google Translated)
The brochure can be seen below (click to enlarge images)
(click image for full size image, 4000 x 2000 pixels)
The idea for this image was born through some old and new images I found from inspirational
designer Syd Mead. He was responsible for many of the futurist designs from the
early 60s – 90s. I knew I wanted to have a car as the focal point looking off into a
futuristic landscape. I started by sketching out my car design and then creating it in
3D. I then slowly modelled the landscape and began construction of the buildings.
Slowly everything came together and I was able to workout a great perspective in
order to create interest in the car and the cityscape that was nearby. Once all the 3D
had been completed I then rendered the image and painted in many of the extra
textures, background and retouched many of the elements to create the colour and feel
I desired.
Inspirational pictures below.
(Origin: Syd Mead)
(Origin: Syd Mead)
(Origin: Internet…somewhere)
(Origin: Internet…somewhere)
This looks amazing. The animation of the robots very well done and the exhibit is well thourght out. I wish there were more art exhibition like this!
British graffiti artist Banksy has opened his first official exhibition in New York.
Set inside a fake pet store, works such as a robotic monkey and fish-fingers swimming in a goldfish bowl aim to question the relationship between human beings and animals.
Check out the video here from the bbc
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Water Colour 2.0 from Luke Brooks on Vimeo.
I was invited to submit my video “Water Colour” into a German video artists festival, but unfortunately could not get permission to use the music that I had chosen for the original piece. I then decided it would be a good opportunity to create some relaxing music to accompany the video piece. Here is my new and improved Water Colour video with music and visuals by me, Luke Brooks. (music contains samples from ccmixter, Antony Raijekov – Night Watch)
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