Sadly the blog here at www.rich-porter.com has come to be quite neglected over the last few months. The more blogs and websites I read the more obvious it is that there are FAR to many people with nothing to say voicing their opinions on the internet. In many ways I think the same can be said about this blog, however therapeutic/entertaining it might be to swear loudly about estate agents and traffic jams. It seems to me (like many other “blogs”) just a lot of noise and a collection of other people’s links.
To that end, www.rich-porter.com will be wound up and shortly cease to be. I’m not sure how shortly, as I’m keen to back everything up for posterity’s sake. But none-the-less it’s going to end.
However! In the interest of publishing much more focused content I will be running a blog over on my new project www.richportervideo.com which is both a great way to start again and will hopefully drive some traffic to my new site too. The chatter and the random links will be disappearing to make way for reviews, how to’s and a examples of the weird and wonderful video work that is going on around the world.
For those of you who want to update their feed readers this is the RSS feed:
The tides are indeed definitely turning. In an unscheduled departure from the usual swearing at life and assorted internet ‘stuff’ I’m going to take some time to consider some my more publishable thoughts during a time of change. So, enough of the metaphors, what am i babbling on about? Well for the first time since I last applied for a bar job I’m now actively looking for work.
Over the course of a series of posts I will be writing in the coming weeks I will be maintaining the serious tone to look at how I got here (the good and the bad from my educational years) and documenting the excitement, chaos and uncertainty of going freelance for the first time.
I hope I can make it interesting and entertaining as well as an insightful resource for others who may be, or about to be, taking the same leap.
Pleased to announce that the projections in the Senate House Yard went down a storm for Cambridges 800th closing celebrations.
As always there’s a new flickr set with some of the best looks, go on take a look!
Alternatively you could have a look at some of the great press we’ve had here, here, here, or here.
Flat art and photoshop work was done by Paul Chatfield (website still in construction) I jumped in to program the show in our Onlyview system and do the required animation using After Effects and Cinema 4D software, all on behalf of E/T/C UK Ltd. The show took us roughly a week’s worth of long days in the studio plus another 4 days of consruction and tweaking on site. Having done these buildings this time last year we had a good idea about what worked and what didn’t. We experimented with a few techniques we’d not used before on this project including 3D modeling and green screen keying which worked to lesser and greater effect. It was great to take testing away from the studio all the way to building size in an environment where he could afford to make changes. There was also a lot of flat art manipulation which is more inline with our usual model.
We have found that with Son Illumiere projects like this the key aspect very much has to be the story told. That said, we wouldn’t be commissioned to produce these show’s if we didn’t make them aesthetically pleasing. It is always our intention to balance fun effects and a bit of “wow” factor with the content that takes from the history of the buildings.
Video from the banks of the Rhine or our current video creation. Design and Photoshop by Ross Ashon I contributed the After Effects, Cinema 4D and Onlyview work.
