Fight Club added to our library

As our Kickstarter campaign finishes we are still working hard to complete the requested Movie Maps, starting with Fight Club

Fight Club

Fight Club - Colour Palette and Soundtrack

New titles added to Movie Maps Library

We've added the following titles to the library of films for our Kickstarter Campaign

Blade Runner - The Final Cut

The Dark Knight Rises

The Incredibles

Inception

Jaws

The Matrix

Pulp Fiction

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Terminator 2 - Judgement Day

And we've also added these prints to the choice of Colour Palette and Soundtrack Prints

Blade Runner - The Final Cut

The Dark Knight Rises

Inception

Jaws

The Matrix

Pulp Fiction

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Terminator 2 - Judgement Day

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Pulp Fiction Movie Map added

Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction

Some more titles added...

Jaws
Both the Movie Map

and the Colour Palette with Soundtrack

Blade Runner Palette Print added

We've just composed the Palette and Soundtrack print for the movie Blad Runner - The Final Cut
and here it is...

And now the Movie Map too

Todays addition... Shrek!

Yes - we've added another taster
Shrek! By Dreamworks picture
We've created a wonderful Palette Print...

Shrek

Kickstarter project started

Movie Maps

We're working on a library of favourite films - so please add your suggestions on the kickstarter page

Meanwhile, we've started to add some more Palette Prints...

Disney's Up

Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring

The Incredibles

Lord of the Rings Movie Map Added

Here's the first glimpse of the Lord of the Rings - The fellowship of the Ring Movie Map

Just need to do a bit of tweaking with the characters, and possibly some of the colours too

Editions in a different size/format

I thought that not everyone would like to have a huge abstract Movie Map on their wall, so I decided to make a smaller version, with just the palette and the soundtrack
(all source from A New Hope)

The is the original in the Widescreen Aspect ratio of the movie

But I thought it would be good to offer a Postcard sized print and came up with this

Updates For Movie Maps

I thought it was about time to update this blog and add a historical record of how the work is progressing...

The next thing I did was decide to add the soundtrack
So I wrote an application to draw the sound waves for me

Here is the image for the soundtrack of A New Hope

Its a bit messy
So I cleaned it up and added it to the palette print (to see if there was any correlation between the sound and the visuals)...

 I tried to use the soundtrack as a mask

I did not think that was too good, so perhaps a line?

No.. some kind of transparency?

I even tried a Torus...

Not really...
So just a straight plot

I thought that idea worked best
So, now to try to add it to the Movie Map

I also removed the garish title - then added it down the side in very small print.
Mainly because the map becomes a bit more abstract without the title, and the viewer is drawn to the detail a lot more
I've also coded the background of each chapter (vertical) to match the selection of compressed frames that are in it
And I made a few alterations to the path drawing algorithms for a smoother render

There are more subtle variations to try (colors/transparency etc) but I have the format I want now

Movie Character Data Visualisations

I've started working on some movie character data visualisations
Here's my first stab at

Star Wars, Episode IV - A New Hope

First set of analysis came by compressing the frames

1 fps of Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope compressed to fill the whole canvas

Then I started analising the character interaction and camp up with this...

Character interactions of Star Wars IV

I wanted to show 

• the main characters
• the scenes
• the locations of the movie scenes
• then added the frame compression above

Here's a set of closeups...

Showing entrances to the movie...

Exits or 'deaths'

Scene names vertically, locations horizontally

Compressed frames at the bottom

First Post!

Generative art - from London

This blog will document my various creations in

Generative Art

Data Visualisation

Typographical Art

Here are some past examples to get started...

A typographical print featuring all the words from Romeo and Juliet, with an embossed message of 'Love'

The same typographical print, but using an image for the placement and colours of each word

An SVG titled 'Squeezed London Underground'
It is constructed with the smallest possible distance between lines and stations - showing the compressed nature of travelling on the nderground

Some Damian Hirst inspired re-imaginings of famous portraits

Another typographical print of whole of 'The Art of Warfare' by Che Guevara