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Fantasy artist, illustrator, songwriter, film maker

Based in Forest Hill. London
Joined May 2010
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By mistake I put up the timecoded version of 'Lucy Anna Martin: The Dragon's Eye'. My Apologies. This is the clear version:- youtu.be/2BkCcSpRd0k
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Over the last few years I've uploaded various stills from my film 'Lucy Anna Martin: The Dragon's Eye'. I can now report that it is now up on YouTube for those who which to watch some of it. The link is:- youtu.be/3UnPDNvJeYo
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My film 'Lucy Anna Martin: The Dragon's Eye' has been selected for the London LiftOff Film Festival which runs online from 1st - 28th December. To view the film and place a vote go to: Checkout.liftoff.network/fea… to purchase a ticket to view all films in contention. Thank you.
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Superb performance of 'London Tide' at the Lyttleton. Based on Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend with songs by P J Harvey and Ben Power. Minimal props but great storytelling.
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New Year's resolution, to make some space. So, sadly, the good airship Octavia heads to the breakers yard. Farewell old friend...
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Thanks to @ClareMcCall and @ArielAnderssen for their excellent work doing some ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement) for the Lucy 2 film.
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Thanks to Clare (Dotty) and Joceline (Lucy) for their excellent work today doing some ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement) for the Lucy 2 film.
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Great theatre, 'The Ocean at the End of the Lane'. Magical.
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A time to ask for this to be a good year. Wassail - a twelfth night tradition. This the Broadwood Wassail. youtu.be/VwzbZ4z-qoc May we all have a good year.
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Just came across this version of 'While Shepherd Watched' called 'Hail, Chime On' - a traditional variant popular in Yorkshire - so I thought I would work it out and do a quick video for Christmas. Here is the link youtu.be/PaccuqyZIr8 Merry Christmas!
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Lucy 2 Update. The edit is locked and I am now off to meet the composer for the first spotting session to discuss the music and audio design.
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Lucy 2. Preparing for the third and final pass of scenes through After Effects before final assembly. While waiting for Premiere Pro to load am helping separate out plastic interlinings from paper bird seed sacks. Who said I can't multitask?
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Lucy 2 Update. Just finished the model-making and shooting the model set up for a short clip for the airship entering along the river as part of the title sequence. Probably two months work for eight seconds of film. Yes, I must be mad! Onwards and upwards....
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Lucy 2 Update 1/2. Well, I must admit there were times when I thought I'd never get here but here I am having just finished the last scene's first pass through After Effects. In total 35 scenes and 185 AE compositions. Now, where did I put scene 1 again?
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Lucy 2 Update 2/2. Looking back after getting to the end of the last scene I can see how much I've learned on the way. I hadn't tried using Adjustment Layers until a quarter of the way through so that's one thing to consider using on those early scenes when I start again.
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Lucy 2 Update. The Countess and her henchmen making a quick getaway or possibly heading off for a midnight picnic?
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Lucy 2 Update. Another few seconds accounted for this week. Finally got the hand-held sea shot steady with Warp Stabilizer VFX. Give me a break I was on the edge of a cliff over Kynance Cove and very windy! The still is Lucy having a bit of a Batman moment and needing a hand.
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Reading this again. It wasn't me that was windy it was the weather! If you are a bit scared of heights I wouldn't recommend looking through a camera viewfinder - it makes it worse! OK, maybe I was a bit windy....
Lucy 2 Update. Managed to get another twenty seconds of the final scene AE editing under my belt today so fairly motoring at the moment. It's thanks to having spent most of November photographing and prepping the backgrounds so they're ready to go. Onwards and upwards!
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Lucy 2 Update. After a month of photographing models and editing them in PhotoShop to prepare backgrounds I have finally got them into PP and AE to start sorting out the final scene. Here's a 'work in progress' still. Seems the Countess is a bit upset with Lucy about something!
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Lucy 2 Update (1). Finally finished the first AE pass through scene 32, the penultimate scene which has taken a number of weeks. Seems like months and there are still things to sort out. Something to look forward to on the second AE pass! Now up onto the roof....
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Lucy Update (2). The final scene and filming of miniatures to go into the PP edit. In adjusting the lights, the backcloth fell and hit the backcloth light, which just wobbled the airship support enough to dislodge the airship which fell onto the table! Arrgh! Luckily OK, phew!
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