Tag: doctor who

Well, I’ve been tin­ker­ing around in 3D for awhile now, and the idea of doing a red-cyan anaglyph seemed like fun, sur­pris­ing­ly it was very easy, and very effec­tive.

Doc­tor Who 2005
Episode 1 — Rose
The Review
The first episode of Doc­tor Who in a good long time. It was good, but it should have been bet­ter than good, it should have been excel­lent. And let me be clear it is not the effects or the act­ing, or the sets that I had a big prob­lem with. The big prob­lem is actu­al­ly the plot.
Hav­ing to grab hold of and keep hold of a new audi­ence while at the same time not demean­ing the old audi­ence is a huge chal­lenge which they did a half-arsed job of. Being heavy hand­ed on some points, and com­plete­ly leav­ing oth­er things unex­plained.
[Warn­ing the rest of this review has big spoil­ers.]

Con­tin­ue read­ing “Rose — review”

Just the oth­er day I hooked my 10 year old New­ton up to my mac and copied all the old files that were on it off. I’ve not used this thing for almost 8 or so years, and I’ve been sift­ing through some of the old sto­ries I wrote on it. Most of them are just frag­ments, sto­ry-ets if you like. This is one was writ­ten on 29th April 1995.
A man stood on the edge of an invis­i­ble abyss. The time wind roared silent­ly up the chasm and rushed past him. Bel­low­ing his jack­et and ruf­fling his hair with­out dis­turb­ing his hat.
He turned a t’pence coin in his left hand, pon­der­ing the impor­tance that it bared. Exam­in­ing the coin by touch, becom­ing famil­iar with its every detail. Iden­ti­fy­ing the monarch by touch as Queen Eliz­a­beth the third. A strange para­dox that could­n’t exist. Ori­gins that the coin held secret. Des­tinies that only he and the coin knew.
He tossed the coin over the edge, for toss­ing was the prop­er thing to do with coins from Earth. He watched it slow­ly, as it instant­ly dis­ap­peared into the chasm.
With a pre­ci­sion equal only to chaos, he wait­ed. He gave it a head start. He liked it here, in the noth­ing­ness that under­lines every­thing. This was the only place he could come and no body else could watch him.
He turned and walked over to the tall blue box. Slow­ly he unlocked the door and went inside.
The Police Box hurled itself over the edge of the abyss and into the vor­tex, in pur­suit of the coin.
The TARDIS was unlike­ly to catch it, but that was not its pur­pose. The coin hur­tled faster and faster through the noth­ing­ness until it reached a max­i­mum veloc­i­ty. The vor­tex con­sumed the coin, the ener­gy would be redis­trib­uted.
The Doc­tor began to won­der just what future the coin had seen as they stood on the edge of the vor­tex, if it had seen the same des­tinies he had, if it had known what was going to hap­pen next, and nev­er gave the coin anoth­er thought.

Two very sim­i­lar TARDIS demats here.
This first one is a 3D fade out, look close­ly and you can see the back win­dows of the Police Box as it fades away.

(Quick­time, MPEG 4, 2.4 MB)
This one is more for ref­er­ence, this is the clas­sic dis­solve trick, even if in the show it meant lock­ing the cam­era in posi­tion for the shot.

(Quick­time, MPEG 4, 2.4 MB)