Cork Christmas Carol – Production Diary 13/12/08

It’s been a little while since we provided an update on the Cork Christmas Carol, lately we’ve been busy with other “things” but rest assured everything is coming along well rather nicely. Today myself and Mr Leahy have spent at least 2 hours wandering around Cork City shooting various bits and bobs for the establishing [...]

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Camera mapping test with Blender

Thought I might experiment with Blender’s Camera Mapping technique that I watched from one of the video tutorials made by Peerless Productions. The link to the video tutorial can be found here . The Blender wiki tutorial can be found here. As explained by these lads, Blender doesn’t feature proper Camera Mapping features available on [...]

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How to create animated snowfall using Blender

( Note: This tutorial is outdated and undoubtedly sh*&# , so I’m updating it in the near future )
First off credit goes to the author Darek for creating the Blender tutorial that I decided to build this tutorial on top of, so from my perspective he did all the hard work. You can check out the [...]

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Cork Christmas Carol: Introduction to Production Blog

As previously stated by Patchy, we are going to keep a production diary of the first Gifted Babies Christmas Special, tentatively called Cork Christmas Carol. Patchy will post concept art, storyboads and production photos. I’ll be covering FX stuff, specifically how I give Cork a white Christmas using open source software such as GIMP and [...]

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Cork Christmas Carol: A New Era in Xmas Films That Rip Off Dickens

It was the 6 O’Clock in the morning, suffering from a touch of insomnia. To occupiy my mind, I tried thinking of movie ideas. I was currently struggling with two concepts. One was a Christmas sequel of Trippers Through Time (Trippers 2ugh Time) and the other about a couple that solve crimes.  The former was [...]

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