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A short film I did visual effects on - "Doppelgänger" is being shown on Sunday at 10pm on BBC Three People still watch traditional television, right..? (It'll be on the iPlayer thereafter and repeated a bunch as per BBC Three) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

YouTube’s “I’m gonna show this video to everyone SYKE no I’m not” tease is getting exhausting

Memory UNLOCKED

I was one of the kids who watched this live. Before I knew it was fiction I was terrified but felt weirdly excited that spooky stuff was caught on camera. When I discovered it was fiction I weirdly felt overjoyed. It was such a cool idea. youtu.be/T7SvpzlY5SE

IT'S OUT TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎊🎉🎈 (sound on, please)

Would anyone notice if I just post my Twitter bangers from 2009 onwards on here?

This camera age-verification stuff is demeaning as it is (“Turn your camera on so I can check if you’re old as fuck” etc), but to be told I have some sort of AI face is even worse.

2/3rds of us had a great couple of days at Alton Towers

A little glitch in the Matrix today when my daughter AND my daughter were both walking in front of me.

I started my YouTube channel last Christmas with a target to hit 1K by the following Christmas, so this is blowing my mind! I don’t even get time to post much on there 😩

I've just had two days where I did nothing. Imagine that! Nothing. What a glorious 48 hours that was. I can't remember the last time I did nothing. And then to do a day of nothing after already doing a day of nothing. What a joy. Sadly I'm back to doing something now.

I have an ever-expanding playlist of my 1 minute long Blender/movie making tutorials, should you be interested in that sort of thing - www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

On @b3ta.com this week the image challenge mixes up kids TV and movies.

I have an ever-expanding playlist of my 1 minute long Blender/movie making tutorials, should you be interested in that sort of thing - www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I was really worried about a series 2. I didn’t think they could capture lightning in a bottle again - But I worry no longer. Bob’s back. Rest of the cast look great. Bring it on.

I thought Bluesky was absolute dog-turds, but it turned out I was following 5 people who posted/retweeted 800 times a day. I can see you all properly now!

Mad that it's still a thing. I remember the last time I heard the dial-up tone - in an airport in Greece in 2006, and it really felt like a retro throwback even back then.

I've been enjoying the VFX Process podcast for a while now, so to get an invite to be on it absolutely floored me! So here's me talking about making my movie on said podcast - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAYI...

I'm celebrating the 4th of July by adding "Rootin' tootin'" in front of every 5th word I say, and firing two pistols in the air every 30 minutes. My colleagues aren't happy.

The inevitable sequels to F1: The Movie are F2 & F3, and they involve Brad Pitt getting progressively worse at driving.

News channels yesterday

All these kids discovering 28 Days Later in the build up to the sequel, and moaning that it was “shot at 480p”. I’m going to reply to every single one of them and inform them that it was shot at 576i and then deinterlaced. They are going to think I’m so cool.

Peter Serafinowicz and Nick Frost both being in the new How to Train Your Dragon movie means I'll only accept it as a Shaun of the Dead prequel.

I'm building a YouTube channel about making my own movie by myself, in this world where people are turning to AI - and now somebody is accusing me of using an AI voiceover. THAT'S MY VOICE. FROM MY MOUTH.

Late to the party, but Last One Laughing UK was perfect lazy Sunday television for me today. Perfect cast. I ache from trying not to laugh alongside them. Wonderful stuff.

Here is a chat I had with someone who is also making her own homemade animated movie - www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlPq...

Good. Bristol wouldn't be Bristol with simple things like "A Premier League football team". It goes against all we stand for as a city - like not having a major arena, or putting train stations as far away from anywhere useful as possible.

The UK demolished all those awesome TV/movie studios in the 00s, and now we've spent the last 5 years building countless new ones due to Hollywood/streaming demand. Are we going to have to bulldoze them all again? I can't keep up.

I've created a playlist of all my short (60ish second) Blender tutorials. Please give it a watch if you can/are interested! - www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... (And not because I'm really close to the monitisation threshold if I have a really great week of views NOPE definitely not)

This week marks 2 years since I started work on my little movie project! Here's a little update - www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYqY...

The Cable Guy would have been a perfect movie if they swapped the Jack Black/Matthew Broderick actors in their respective roles. I can’t believe they dropped the ball on that.

My daughter’s best friend moved to the end of our street last year. They’ve spent the last two weeks of the school holidays not seeing each other physically, but playing games together online every day. One of those “It’s weird, but probably what I would have done if I could back then” things 🤷‍♂️

Using Bluesky after Twitter is like being convinced to move on to another party when I was ready for bed an hour ago.

I did actually take my kids to see Minecraft this week. I couldn't even bring myself to form an opinion on it. Would be like me reviewing a plane manual or jockey outfits. It just isn't a world I live in.

It shouldn't be a shock. It's crack for kids. Good old fashioned hardcore movie-drugs for children. Also now kept afloat by intrigue.

YESSS. Bring it on, lads. I just need to not die for at least 6 years, that’s all.

On what would have been my dads 70th birthday, here is my late father discussing his lazy animation technique - One that I still use to this day 😂

Posting the same videos on three different platforms these last few months has been interesting. Algorithms are a weird thing. One video could be your worst performing video on one platform and be your best on another.

We used to be a proper country

My friend Lyndon, who I used to make Guksack stuff with, has moved to the US and is making Guksack-esq stuff with GENUINE AMERICANS. Give it a watch - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s4G...

Just got back from a week in a forest. Yes I realise Center Parcs is like Disneyland forest, but we had limited internet so it still counts. And I come back to BlueSky and see it’s still just four people keeping this place alive.

Finally caught Adolescence. I know I’m two weeks late, and I know I’m parroting what everyone else has said, but what an absolute masterclass in film making and acting 🤯

I woke up at 6am to the smell of our 20 year old daughter cooking dinner, because she’s nocturnal now. I couldn’t even be mad because this is exactly what I was doing to my parents when I was 20. It’s just the circle of life in motion.

I madededed a video of me talking about facial animation in Blender - youtu.be/J_vO4NK3fqc

Watching my dad’s friends/colleagues on the show I excitedly watch every Saturday is blowing my mind 🤯

It doesn't matter how many people I follow on here, my feed is just three people.

Nearly made the "old fart" move of analysing the Glastonbury line up on social media. That was a close one!

I am making a movie - youtube.com/@davebrainvfx

Twitter has been blocked by the IT dept on the work computers. I can't be drawn back due to boredom now.