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Thursday, 20 February 2020

💀I'm in the Death Business... Death being Storyboards?... Here are some storyboards.

Currently working on a little project with my guy from Stateside; I'm racking my brain trying to remember how we first connected. I think I complimented a dubstep music video he directed. Wait, what ever happened to dubstep? Is that, like, truly dead? Were we trash for listening?

In any case, the little project is a motion comic one, and currently in the storyboard frame stages about to move on to the animatic and character design. Without giving too much away, thought I'd share a rough frame or two, some of which are not in the final cut:

What do you think it's about?

It's always fun to do looser boards like this, because the lines always look more vibrant to me when it's fully organic.

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...And business is good. Well, okay. Okay-ish.

Thursday, 14 March 2019

MMXIX: The Showreels

www.bluntspear.com

I have truly neglected this blog, haven't I? Well, to shoot myself some bail, TheActionPixel.com is a relentless, unforgiving beast. That and adulting. Boy, did my parents not warn me about adulting. But hey, now that we got the weak excuses out of the way, thought I'd share what I've been up to last. And well that was editing my showreel. Showreels, in fact.

I decided to go on a bit of a revamp workwise and needed to update my showreel, for storyboard and motion graphics. And it's a doozy. Compared to my 2009 showreel. Oh the difference a decade makes.

Check them out below:

Let me know what you think?! Sum up, Almost forgot the format for this blog. But hey, let's see how I get on with this thing.

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

#TAPNews straight to the vein

Thought would share with y'all what I've started on www.TheActionPixel.com. #TAPNews – bite size video news chunks on everything pertinent in entertainment – has been launched! Check it:

Good stuff.

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#EntertainmentOnTAP

Monday, 28 September 2015

Scrulove's "Home" Music Video

It's "slice and dice 'em" season it seems with me on the digital killing floor. Currently editing 'the short', but what launched yesterday was a music video I directed for artiste Scru Love entitled Home. Also ended up doing the frame by frame GFX and edit.

The idea was simple one location deal, DOP shot it on a Black Magic:

End of the tunnel in sight. #scrulove #musicvideo #bluntspear #pxofthepx

A photo posted by Dulani Wilson (@bluntspear) on Sep 16, 2015 at 3:09pm PDT

So punched the footage up with some simple GFX and painstaking frame by frame animation. Whoa is me.

Check out the video in the player below:

Now check out some of the stills from the music video:

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Too much to do with little support. Now I know how Huey felt. Not really, but you get the idea

Thursday, 6 November 2014

The Action Pixel et al

The Action Pixel @TheActionPixel #EntertainmentOnTAP

Check out a blog I have been working on over at www.TheActionPixel.com. Articles about everything Animation, Comic and Gaming. Some cool stuff there so be sure to check it out.

I know, I have been on one of my forced hiatuses again, so thought I'd touch base once more to let you see what I am up to.

Also some great news on the festival front for Red Man and Merchants Of Quietus. Click to have a read.

But hey, I'll be more regular with the posty post.

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#EntertainmentOnTAP

Tuesday, 19 August 2014

'Bluntspear at the Film Festivals'. Sounds more epic than it is.

Few updates on the Festival front for my films Red Man and Merchants Of Quietus. An all around good look methinks. Both films will be at the Portobello Film Festival and Red Man will also be at Aesthetica Short Film Festival.

Currently been busy with a few stuff, hence the radio silence. But hoping to launch a few new projects come September.

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Great and sad times we living in. Just never compromise. Too many people change for the worse just to conform. Bleh.

Sunday, 27 July 2014

Red Man: Top 10 at Loch Ness Festival in Huffington Post review

Superb news on Red Man, the motion comic / 2D animation I made earlier this year. Been quite busy storyboarding and filming an online web series so didn't have time to post this. But Red Man made it as one of the top 10 film shorts to go and see at the Loch Ness Film Festival 2014!

I want to go to there. Awesome stuff, you can read it all here in the Huffington Post .... post. Here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/leigh-clark/loch-ness-film-festival-10-of-the-best-_b_5594378.html
Article is by Leigh Clark. See what else made the body bag list.

Scotland's greatest king demands allegiance. Follow Red Man's progress by liking the Facebook Page.

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#LongLiveTheKing

Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Red Man "Blood Crown" Poster Art

Check it out, a second poster done for Red Man. A crown suitable for a righteous tyrant, don't you think?:

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It's in your hands now.

Saturday, 26 April 2014

Facebook Facelift: Red Man and Merchants Of Quietus

Been updating the various Facebook Pages, namely www.fb.com/redmananimation and www.fb.com/merchantsofquietus.

Check 'em out when you got a chance. Like, share and support you kind Caesars.
Did this little simple design for our favourite Shakespeare-inspired tyrant king:

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Designing and adding a few bits and pieces. Busying myself. That's my neologism for the day

Saturday, 29 March 2014

Balloon Fun Animation

Who's up for some balloon fun?!
What are you... five?

Short animation I did. Frames in Photoshop and composed in Ae.

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Here's to never growing up.

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

"Tim" Character Design

A small change in pace, doing a short, quirky animation experiment with more vector-styled artwork. A lot more tedious than it looks, my hats off to the guys who do it daily. Whether 2D or 3D, animation is animation. And it is all time consuming. Let me know what you think of "Tim":

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Also did a little redheaded girl. See a glimpse of her on instagram: http://instagram.com/p/lVIZeqiS1n/

Friday, 7 February 2014

bluntspear.co.uk: Showreel MMXIV

Been a busy January. Even I'd admit that. So Happy Super Awesomely Late New Years to you. Managed to get my portfolio updated whilst working on Red Man and finishing up some contracts for PIM and blueprint.tv. View it on Vimeo, or just go here to see it all:
www.bluntspear.co.uk

Dulani Wilson's Showreel MMXIV from Dulani Wilson on Vimeo.

Stay tuned Super friends,

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Ms. Moneypenny, you can send them in now.

Monday, 9 December 2013

Red Man Artwork

Thespians! Red Man FB page is live. Check out some of the taster images that have been hitting people square in the face over there on www.facebook.com/redmananimation:

©2013 Red Man "Something Wicked" Title Card (www.fb.com/redmananimation). Artwork by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk). All rights reserved.

©2013 Red Man "My Voice" Title Card (www.fb.com/redmananimation). Artwork by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk). All rights reserved.

©2013 Red Man "Alarums 1" Title Card (www.fb.com/redmananimation). Artwork by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk). All rights reserved.

©2013 Red Man "Alarums 2" Title Card (www.fb.com/redmananimation). Artwork by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk). All rights reserved

Stop by, share like.

Currently doing the last of the frames now. Happy days. Macbeth our bloody tyrant would be pleased.

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Sectioned and quartered

Sunday, 1 December 2013

Something Wicked This Way Comes...

Follow the true terrible tyrant to triumph. www.facebook.com/redmananimation .

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Fine. Let's start the carnage. #redman #somethingwickedthiswaycomes #mandesperate #kingdefiant #herotragic #forscotland

Sunday, 17 November 2013

Red Man Animation Still

Red Man reaching a close. Seriously now. Progress always feels good, doesn't it. Recently did some story art for another couple of Mitsubishi ads, so will share in due course.
For now, check out Scotland's supreme overlord king in all his tyrannical glory:

© 2013 "Red Man" Still. Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All Rights Reserved.

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Supreme!! Supreme!! ARRGHH!!

Sunday, 3 November 2013

Fire The Mob's "Get Lucky" Music Video

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What do you think? Or ...yeah. that's cool too.

Saturday, 2 November 2013

Animated Music Video Production "Get Lucky" by Fire the Mob

Did an animated video for these guys. Fire The Mob. I did the main concept, storyboard, animatic, design, direction, animation, edit. The usual. Think I went a bit overboard though, but its expected when your dealing with music videos. So many 'club' videos out there you have to go overboard in order to get something half way decent. I think I was able to do that.

I think it should / might be released soonish. But hey till then listen to the track: www.facebook.com/firethemob

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I need some clones *folds arms and smirks knowingly*
#animationVagrant #storyboardwarlord #directordictator

Sunday, 4 August 2013

Redman. It comes.

Redman. Defiant. Tragic. Claiming kinghood the old fashioned way. Through blood, menage and might.

Working some more on frames in my a short animation based on Macbeth. Yeah that one. My on and off projects for years now, but it's coming together. I swear. Thought I'd share a frame I just did:

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Drawing the line here.

Saturday, 13 July 2013

SP's "The Lightning Strike" Voting ends in 2 days!

How goes the Internet? Some urgent (ish) news that requires some exigency! I am currently in the top 50 for the competition hosted by @talenthouse and @snowpatrolband and need your help to solidify dominance. Every vote counts and you can check out the cool video I did for the band's song The Lightning Strike (What If This Storm Ends?). It's got halos, missile silos, babies. What is there not to love? Vote here and show some artistic love for the vagabond :) :

http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/preview/aa0b7bcac4515bb04d69d04f7055fd87/967

There is only two days left to vote. Be sure to check out the other entries and see what you like too. Thanks alot gang. Let em count.

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I've got some "All That Remains" news too... and some MOQ news. News everywhere!