"Wavy With It" Music Video BTS +

Shot a short music video Monday past, pass.... which one is it? Check it out. Managed to get a picture before my attention became consumed with the lights:

© 2014 Mimi Storm "Wavy With It" MV shoot. Photo by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved.

Will be editing the video as well for artiste Mimi Storm. Did it to test out new gear really. Have to say my new tripod is a beaut. Davis and Sanford. Provista. Definitely worth it for you DSLR shooters and killers.
May have to take the gloves off to get something decent. Which was never the plan, but I'll take it as it comes.

Working on a few projects at the moment, personal and client-based, for some decent brands and awesome people. Would say things are looking up, but don't want to jinx it. Jinx!

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My Kingdom for a horse!

"The Authority" Storyboard Line Art

Hey, another round of story art I did. I'd say more but you know the old saying.... yeah that one:

© 2014 "The Authority" Storyboard. Artwork by Dulani Wilson (@bluntspear) All rights reserved.

What you guys think?

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Why on God's green are film locations so expensive? I'm not asking to shoot in 10 Downing Street to see what the PM and Balls are getting up to. Lol. Balls. Teased much?

"Illuminate" Promo

Short Music Promo I edited. Simple ish. See here:




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And that's that

Fire The Mob's "Get Lucky" Music Video

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

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

© 2013 Fire The Mob's "Get Lucky" [still]. Artwork and video by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk)

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

maestro_elite Logo Design

Recently (kind of) did a logo for a dude I know way back in high school who's heavy and knee deep into music production. Name of the outfit is maestro_elite. I ended up throwing a few ideas out there:

© 2013 "Maestro_Elite Logo Design Ideas". Design by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk). All rights reserved.

In the end he chose the 'ME' crown idea (white one).

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#designtyrant

"Aao Na" (Come To Me)- The Additional Edit

Recently did a corrective edit for a hindi music video for Avina (avinamusic.com). Simple enough, a bit of swapping scenes, simple grading and tweeking. The video was shot in LA I believe, and to see such vibrant sun, sand and sea made me terribly homesick. Avina is on Youtube, so you can check her out and support.
Here's a screenshot:

© 2013 Avina. "Aao Na" Music Video still. Additional edit by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk). All rights reserved to its respective owner(s). 

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Storyboarding, coasting.

"Irish Stranger" Official Music Video

Pistoleros! Scrulove's "Irish Stranger" went live a few days ago. Stars Danielle Carlyn. Directed and Edited by @bluntspear. Check it out here:



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G.I.I.

All That Remains' "Asking Too Much"

Hey Pistoleros!
How's it going out there in Internetland?
Thought I'd share a music video I entered into a Talenthouse Competition hosted by All That Remains and Razor & Tie. It's for ATR song 'Asking Too Much'. Cool track, and thought I'd take part, as I haven't really done anything music video-wise for the kind of rock/metal crowd. But it proved to be fun. Although spent 5 days illustrating in photoshop and animating/editing/rendering because I saw the competition last minute. All strenuous stuff. I had only an hour and 1 minute to spare after I uploaded it.

Voting is now live, and I need your help to get noticed. Follow through and have a look-see:
http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/preview/aa0b7bcac4515bb04d69d04f7055fd87/1707

The video is embeded on their for you to watch, or have a double take and watch the video here too:



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It's my 50th video apparently. That must be a milestone somewhere. Right, YouTube? Keep rocking people! :)

ATR Illustration 'BF Slave'.

Check out the digital inking of an image I did. Building and I may just pull this off if I concentrate. Really hard.

©2013 'Boyfriend Slave'. Artwork by Dulani Wilson /bluntspear. All rights reserved.

Looks like someone got the 'ball and chain' treatment.

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Rrrrr. *concentration face*

Heroine Badass

Illustration for a quick music video I'm hoping to get done in the next few days. Fingers crossed anyway. Just dividing the illustration into its respective elements:

© 2013. Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved.

Let me know what you think.

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Elma Fudd "Bailiff Season"

Irish Stranger

Currently putting a music video together, taking a bit longer than it should, only because I have been back and forth with other work. But I suspect this week it will be done. MOQ sound edit is this Friday. Postponed again but it'll get done.

Check out the still of the video I am working on. Scrulove's Irish Stranger:

© 2013. Scrulove's Irish Stranger still. Shot, directed and edited by Dulani Wilson. All Rights Reserved.

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See you on the next side.

Now there is an iron gate where the fence used to be.

"The Lightning Strike" storyboards

Check out the storyboards that I did for the making of "The Lightning Strike" music video. It's apart of the @SnowPatrolBand and Talenthouse competition. Not many of the scenes I imagined changed during the animatic/ story art phases, but I thought it would be interesting to show you all a little bit of the process behind the madness. May put the animatic up as well. But for now:

©2013 Snow Patrol's "The Lightning Strike" Storyboards (1 of 6). Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved to respective owners.

©2013 Snow Patrol's "The Lightning Strike" Storyboards (2 of 6). Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved to respective owners.

©2013 Snow Patrol's "The Lightning Strike" Storyboards (3 of 6). Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved to respective owners.

©2013 Snow Patrol's "The Lightning Strike" Storyboards (4 of 6). Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved to respective owners.

©2013 Snow Patrol's "The Lightning Strike" Storyboards (5 of 6). Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved to respective owners.

©2013 Snow Patrol's "The Lightning Strike" Storyboards (6 of 6). Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved to respective owners.

My story art is usually bare bones when I am the only one that will be using it as reference, FYI.

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"Babylon is Burning"

Currently working on the storyboard/ animatic for a music video in the works. Also have another animation, music video and possible animation music video in the works. So keeping my head down for the next couple weeks.

I tend to do story art really crudely when I do it for my own references. Check it out:

©2013 Snow Patrol's "The Lightning Strike (What If This Storm Ends?)" Story Art by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved to respective owners. 

What do you think it's about so far?

More to come.

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Only a few hours to vote ladies and gents. Just hit up the Talenthouse website and hit me on the head with the vote button. It's like Florida, you can vote twice (hey, Florida is not like that) Sorry. But you can vote twice for the #animationvagrant:

http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/preview/aa0b7bcac4515bb04d69d04f7055fd87/908

People, Places and Things BTS

Did some video work for the reNOUNed Adam Wedd for the launch of his debut EP: 'People, Places and Things'. Get it. Okay, moving swiftly on...

It is a BTS of sorts, shot on my Canon 60D/Rodemic on the day where they did the last bits of recording including sax guy and double bass guy. The EP's making some traction on the web-o-sphere, so support that independent muscle, follow him on Twitter, FB and all that jazz, and have a listen to some of his stuff on YouTube. If you like it, show some love and then why not buy the EP when it comes out.

At the moment just exporting some animation from Ae for a tutorial video I am doing, plus thinking about MOQ's intro. Plus, waiting for an update on a promo that technically should be happening this week. But we'll see. For now, I'm just backing up the archives and deleting all these unknown files from the crypt that is my computer. So if I have an unclaimed piece of edit, raw footage, unuploaded footage, rendered image that you haven't got because you were too busy or couldnt be bothered, well they are going bye-bye. Space is limited as is. How does one go through a Tera that quickly. I'll never know.

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Papagayo is the nectar of the animation gods.

Poster Art. Kendrick Lamar Comp.

Kendrick Lamar fans! Well, art fans in general. Was designing this for a competition on Creative Allies. Started working on it. Forgot about it. Missed the deadline. Whoa is me. Anyway, thought I'd share it all the same:

© 2013 Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved to respective owners.

Well, definitely not the best,  but 'E' for effort, maybe. That was not to be hummed like that pop dribble on the radio. You know the song I am referring to.

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Producing is not fun. At all.

Fair-Weather Friends Album Art

© 2012 "Fair-Weather Friends" Album Art (Draft). Artwork by Dulani Wilson.
All Rights Reserved to respective owners.

Candy asked me to design another album cover for her, I think its an EP, LP cant remember. So I put my hand to pixel and managed to come up with something decent. She liked it, and you can hear and see it all on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/fair-weather-friends-single/id566564430

Why, sir, I do think you are progressing.

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"Watch the muscle flex, damn D, they don't love you yet" -Dulanibus

"V" Music Video

V.  Check out this tyrannical edit of a music video for artiste scrulove:




Likes and comments welcomed. If not for me, for Churchill. We all know he loves guys like me... what he said what?... like rabies to a dog?!..... mustard gas against who?... oh never mind. He'd probably hate my guts. But dibs on the public domain footage on him. I can chop and use his image however I like.

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#directordictator @bluntspear

"Headlights" Starlight Shine Bright

Oh yeah, not sure how this totally slipped the cranium, but ahm... I thought I might as well show you Morning Parade's Official Music Video for "Headlights" via another blog:

http://blog.talenthouse.com/2012/04/23/dulani-wilsons-headlights-video-shines-bright/

:)

As soon as the it was announced, 2 dislikes of the video magically appeared on the Youtube Video. Go figure.

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#animationvagrant thanks ya!

Matchboxing it

The #storyboardwarlord met up with David- the guy that took LEGO bricks and made this epic awesomeness sodomised by superb greatness:




Yeah so we met up and he needed some boards so managed to get something done for his next production:

©2012 Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All Rights Reserved to respective owners.

©2012 Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All Rights Reserved to respective owners.

Can't wait to see how it turns out.

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Do the Due