JUST ANOTHER BLOG

My name is Dave and this is my studio.

I will be filling this blog with hundreds of unedited musings that, up to now, have been locked away in Apple Notes.

Stories, hooks, overheard comments and lines of dialogue or narrative that I thought worthy of recording for one reason or another. Some funny, some sad but always honest. Over time I hope it will paint a favourable picture of me and you can get to know me better, if you want to.

This is going to be random.

AI Perfume Ad For Laughs

So I made this in a few hours this morning using Midjourney v6, Runway Gen-2, Haiper, Eleven Labs and Suno trying to drum up some...

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Apr 5, 20241 min read

Playing With Runway AI

I dipped my toe in the water with AI last year and was pretty impressed with the image generation from text prompts. I wondered then how...

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Apr 3, 20242 min read

360 Video

So a few years back while I was working as Senior Producer for West End Studios, I started producing VR content and 360 video. It was...

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Nov 16, 20236 min read

Unreal in production

So I jumped back into Unreal 5 again for my next TV production. This is my second time using it for a broadcast project this year and the...

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Oct 17, 20233 min read

Still Here

Despite my best intentions to maintain this blog and furnish you with plentiful musings, I fear I have fallen short of expectations but,...

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Sep 16, 20231 min read

Eva Cassidy

https://youtu.be/k61xB1Tte0E What a privilege to be commissioned to work on promos and socials for the brand new album release 'I Can...

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Mar 5, 20231 min read

AI Part 2. Creating Style.

More exploration of Stable Diffusion using a graphic novel style. This required further training of the AI and the use of a fine tuned...

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Jan 28, 20232 min read

Artificial Intelligence.

Painting by Numbers with AI I've been experimenting with various AI tools this week and found my way to Stable Diffusion on Google Colab...

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Jan 27, 20231 min read

MIA

8 months without a post. No one is more disappointed in me than I am. I have many legit excuses, not least of which was cleaning my car...

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Apr 28, 20221 min read

Lesson 4 Plan

So I did some teaching for the University of Brighton recently and I found these notes for a lesson plan on the really interesting...

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Aug 29, 20211 min read

The Karate Kid

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/cobra-kai-creators-explain-how-they-made-the-karate-kid-show-2018-5%3famp so much...

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Nov 28, 20201 min read

Live Die Repeat

I'm going to post a lot of these mini 10s animations, this one is a sample for the logo reveal 'Freebie Friday' I'm trying out.

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Nov 25, 20201 min read

Pay it Forward

I thought I'd give a little something away to help anyone who's trying to launch something new in their life, or maybe refresh something...

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Nov 24, 20202 min read

The Vanishing

The truth is, I've been watching a LOT of of TV. This is mostly because I came to the end of an insanely busy period working double days...

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Nov 23, 20201 min read

Spade Cricket

05/11/2019 another dream story hook... Think Clint Eastwood from the 90s, an ageing enforcer type. His job was to kill prisoners after...

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Oct 17, 20202 min read

The Fall

More Dave wisdom from the notes collection... 13/07/2019 Love is like a bungee jump. It's scary. Sometimes we’re scared to step over the...

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Sep 25, 20201 min read

Lock Down Loon 2

C4D, X Particles and a bit of Cycles4D experimentation keeping busy during lockdown. I loved ‘The Expanse‘ books and really enjoyed the...

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Sep 8, 20201 min read

The Guttersnipe

19/3/2016 I remember this one because not only was the dream itself really scary but it happened around the time that I had read 'The...

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Aug 29, 20202 min read

Lockdown Loon 1

During the Covid lockdown, I passed the time recreating some bits and pieces I liked from film and TV, I even took a few requests. I have...

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Aug 27, 20201 min read

Akeelah And The Bee

28/07/20 Me (out loud): "what do you call a group of words that are related because they describe the same thing?" 12 YO daughter...

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Aug 11, 20201 min read