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This is my first successful attempt at driving a stepper motor from an Arduino Card. This has been a relatively cheap project which has taught me a great deal about different types of steppers and how to wire them up. My next project will be using a mini servo. After that, I will move on to a more advanced type of stepper control interface.

This is my first attempt at an Arduino Sketch. An Arduino Sketch is basically a prototype of some code that can be uploaded to an Arduino Card that in turn, can run various electrical devices (Light Emitting Diodes in this case). An Arduino Card is hobbyists micro controller mounted on a board. It's basically a simplified computer that can be hard coded through the use of human readable programming languages.

This was the show reel that got me my first real gig at Rising Sun Pictures. Most of the work on it was completed at AFTRS over the two years I spent there studying Visual Effects. Now that 2 years has passed, I have a lot more material for my reel, but the rule of thumb with film work is, you can't put stuff on your reel until it's out on DVD. So I guess I'll just have to wait :)

The making of a short film I am still working on. How ironic. It turns out the the shoot was so interesting that we were able to make a small doco out of it. I am still working on all of the 70 visual effects shots that are needed to complete the film. Talk about biting off more than one can chew. Oh well we've all come a long way since then. I will post a cut of the film when it is closer to final cut. Enjoy.

Egg Cup Boy was a the result of a collaboration between Craig Bunker, Andrew McLean and myself, Daniel Thompson. The year was 1999 and this short was part of our studies at M.A.P.S. (Media Arts Productions Skills) at Hamilton College in South Australia. We had no Idea what we were doing or how we would do it. All we had was a few Cardboard boxes and some Modelling Clay and Free Reign of Andrew's Parent's basement. The film took around 3 months to shoot, and many late nights of cutting together royalty free sound samples for the score and sound design.

After Playing in this band (Thinktank) for 4.5 years. I got married and began to pursue another passion. Film and Video Production. During this transition I helped shoot and edit their Video Clip. The Clip had a decent run on RAGE (A late night MTV show in Australia). The band released a killer album around the same time, toured lots and eventually disbanded like all good things tend to do. But the music and the video remains....

This was the show reel I submitted in 2003 to The Australian Film Television and Radio School. Lucky for me I was one of four selected to study Visual Effects at AFTRS.

This is a little Doco I made to record the process of a mock up commercial for powerade while I was at film school. We wanted a gothic western theme. An I wanted to experiment with mixing miniatures and full scale set pieces using a motion control rig.

In this lesson you will create a very simple camera move and export it to a text file for later use on set.

In this lesson gives you a basic overview of the User Interface and the Virtual Rig.

In this tutorial you will learn how to install the files that you need to get up and running with the Kuper Tools Virtual Motion Control Rig in Maya.