Fall Before the Dawn (Lyric Video)

 A lyric video I made for Farseer, based on their album artwork (which I also created). The goal was to create some quick, interesting visuals to accompany the music and lyrics.

www.farseerofficial.com

Sunset (Photos and Time Lapse)

Lens Flare Test

Sometimes in animation I need a lens flare to plus-up a project, but you can only modify the default After Effects lens flare effect so much before you need something more (and I never use the default flares without a lot of modification). However I've not yet had the need to spend a lot of money on a dedicated plugin, so this afternoon I did a quick test to see what I could do without a filter. Using only shape layers and expressions I was able to create an easy-to-use lens flare with very little hassle. I can foresee this method getting used for future projects.

Animation Showreel

Moonrise

I tried filming the moonrise tonight. The first shot is a little blurry (wide aperture), but the second shot is sharper. There's a little camera shake here and there too, thanks to a wobbly tripod, but overall it was a good experiment. Just need to wait until the moon rises just after dusk and try again. A couple of days ago would have been perfect.

I decided to try shooting some video with my new camera, as so far I haven't really done much with it. So last night I set up a tripod and filmed the moon as it rose in the sky. I'm quite happy with the results given that I only had a 300mm lens.

Best viewed in HD to see the detail in the crates:

Bendy Guitar

Another thing I never posted before, my first experiment with time displacement, which something I was playing around with during my Masters course.

Li-Ning

A montage made from a series of short films by Axis Animation. I did some of the 2D animation, background elements and effects animation mostly. This included: waterfalls; foot-impact dust; blowing flags; lightning; water splashes; some clouds; waves in the water. Among other little bits and pieces. I also animated the display for the scoreboard towards the end, but that's not really anything worth bragging about. Mostly still shots in this montage anyway.

The main objective for me was to create animated elements that would fit with the stylised 3D animation and the environment (which was a mixture of 2D and 3D). Visit the Vimeo page for more information.

Conflicting Ideas - Full Film

"An artist's rivaling creations fight for his attention."

The culmination of my year in MSc Animation and Visualisation. A short film that combines traditional 2D animation with live action with some VFX to boot.

Conflicting Ideas - Behind the Scenes

A short look at the production of my latest film which combines 2D animation with live action, in which an artist's prior creations exist in the same world he does - but not peacefully.

See more of this project here: http://upsidethebox.blogspot.com

Chucking Out Time

It's been a while since I've updated this blog. Haven't had room on my mind for anything outside my masters project, which is in the animation stage just now. I'll try and get some more stuff up soon once it all starts taking shape.

D'ARK Explosion

Some 2D effects animation I did for an undergraduate film. The environment here it only a temporary render for layout purposes, it's not the look of the final film. No sound effects or camera shake were added for this render, but will be added in the final composite of the film.

Santos and Snowman: Toyz n the Hood

Happy Holidays! from axisanimation on Vimeo.
Santos and Snowman treat us to their 'Toyz n the Hood' story!

Season's Greetings from everyone at Axis and Flaunt!

Producer & Director - Lucy Teire
Layout & Animation - Mark Haldane
Character Design & Compositing - Weerawat Mungkung
Background Painting - Reza Dolatabadi
Sound Design - Audiojigsaw
Voices - Jeremy Hitchen
Music - Deff Syndicate

[EDIT: see it here: http://www.markhaldane.com/index2.php?view=anim_xmas]

Elwood in the Kitchen

A rough first test for an effect I'm going to be using for my Masters project. There's a lot wrong with it but I discuss it all on my other blog: upsidethebox.blogspot.com/2010/11/first-compositing-test.html

Time Displacement

Playing around with time displacement effects on a flat piece of footage. No compositing.

Making of Trooper

A behind the scenes look my degree film Trooper. As part of the submission we had to produce a 'making of' film documenting the production process. A few folk have expressed interest in seeing it so I've uploaded it.

This was made right at the end of production when I was pretty worn out, so much as I tried, I don't sound very alive. Maybe I'll hire a narrator to re-do it...


Making of Trooper from Mark Haldane on Vimeo.

No Entry

An effect I'm testing for my current project:

Trooper in High Quality

I've made the Vimeo version of Trooper public so you can see it in better quality.

Trooper from Mark Haldane on Vimeo.

Trooper!

I finished my film about 3 weeks now (seems like 3 days) and the Degree Show is now open! You can see Trooper and all the other films from my year on the website!

http://imaging.dundee.ac.uk/animation/trooper.html

Or visit the Degree Show here in Dundee to see all the films in superior sound and picture quality.

Effects Animation

Last Show - Lightning Animation on Vimeo.

I did the lightning effects in this film. Check out more on the Last Show blog!