Alastair Dixon: Visual effects artist in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Alastair Dixon
CGI & Visual Effects Lighting Showreel

My latest Visual Effects Lighting Showreel for Film, Commercials & Music Promos. Full HD - 1080P I'd love for you to take a couple of minutes to enjoy my showreel edit :) Video Soundtrack: "La Grande Ourse" by "Rone". Check out my website for more VFX, CGI and Photography work: www.alidixon.com Resu...

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Alastair Dixon
Alastair Dixon
Alastair Dixon

5 Days in Bali - 5D2 - Magic Lantern - RAW Video

A recent vacation to Bali presented me with the opportunity to test out Magic Lanterns fairly new RAW Video functionality; in the field. Whilst in the UK prepping for the trip, I had some data write speed issues, where the RAW video was filling up the CF Cards memory buffer too quickly, this resulted in the recording stopping... So as you can imagine I was a little worried about this happening when in Bali. It is advised by Magic Lantern that you warm the card up for 20 seconds by recording filler material before actually filming what you would like to. This isn't really practical, Luckily it is nice and warm in Bali so I had continuous recording throughout the trip. Perfect! :) The one thing that I wish I had was some sort of stabiliser for my 5D2, or even a lens with IS to help smooth out the inevitable jerkiness from handheld recording.. I was able to smooth out some shots very successfully in After Effects but, its never as good as stabilising in camera. Overall I was astonished how clean the uncompressed RAW footage was, and being able to grade this video, as you would a photo was so much fun! If you're willing to put up with the longer post process, and have the disk storage I would really recommend shooting this way. You won't look back, I promise! :) If you have any questions about the process of shooting in ML RAW and the post production stage, I'd love to help you out. Ask away in the comment section below... Edited in: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Graded in: Adobe Lightroom Camera: Canon 5d Mark II _ ML RAW Lens: 17-40mm f4 CF Card: Transcend 32GB 1000x Music by Keith Kenniff - "Acres All Above" Photography set from the trip: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alidixonphotography/sets/72157636419364466/ Please visit my site for more cinematography, animations and photography www.alidixon.com Twitter: @alidixon

Alastair Dixon
The Seasons - Timelapse Reel 2013

https://vimeo.com/59471256 This film has been in the making for over a year, using my Canon 5D Mark II and GoPro Hero3 Black Edition cameras. Most of the footage was captured during vacations; some on day trips. I have a passion for landscape photography and cinematography in my spare time. It was t...

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Jose Sarmiento

I'll be using the Canon 5D Mark III and will be renting some lenses. I still need to get an intervalometer though. And as for the post-production process I'll be working on a Mac so I don't know which program (hopefully a free one, haha) can do HDR.

John Hager

Great stuff! every time I see time-lapse I get inspired to get out there and try it. I even downloaded an intervalometer for my iphone to control my 7D. I kind of don't have an excuse now except it's still cold out. :) Thanks for the post!

Alastair Dixon

Thank you John, Richard and Karen. Very kind words!

Alastair Dixon

The Seasons - Timelapse Reel 2013

This film has been in the making for over a year, using my Canon 5D Mark II and GoPro Hero3 Black Edition cameras. Most of the footage was captured during vacations; some on day trips. I have a passion for landscape photography and cinematography in my spare time. It was this passion that ultimately made this project so much fun to create. Video Soundtrack: “He Had a Good Time” by “Cliff Martinez” I have gained so much enjoyment from watching these landscapes lapse in time, and learned so much from taking these images and editing them, that I know my next timelapse reel will only be better :) Please like if you enjoy it :)

Laurence Williams

we now have a chat room on our web site where you will be able to chat to the cast and crew on set dates and times, for info go to: www.-music-box-films-limited.co.uk

Andrew Harding

Thank Alastair! Glad to have you on my network! Andrew

James Holzrichter

hello, thank you for connecting :)

Alastair Dixon
The English Garden

Having some more fun with my 5D Mark II coupled with the Canon 50mm f1.4 prime lens. This was all shot over two evenings in my garden. Video Soundtrack: “Arrival of the Birds” by “The Cinematic Orchestra” https://vimeo.com/42658434 I hope you enjoy it. Ali...

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Alastair Dixon

Thanks Robert, I used to have the t2i, it's a great camera! I recently upgraded for the full frame sensor. For the dolly shots I used a Konova slider. Gives it more of a cinematic feel doesn't it :)

Laura Nicole Dávila

Thank you for the add! As an aspiring animator, I am looking forward to reading your stuff :D

Alastair Dixon

You're welcome Laura! I hope you find my posts interesting, also please check out my blog for my latest work and posts. What sort of animation are you into? :)

Alastair Dixon

check out my vimeo portfolio: https://vimeo.com/alidixon

Alastair Dixon
VFX Lighting Reel 2012

Hello Stage32 Folk, Id really appreciate it if you could take 2mins to have a look at my latest VFX Lighting Showreel for 2012. Most of the work was created for TV commercials and Film whilst working at The Moving Picture Company (MPC) and Aardman Animations, including recent work done on "The Pirat...

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Amanda Toney

This is incredible

Graham P. Halky

Beautiful work. SO... what is your next step without hesitation?

Kym Stover

I don't know a lot about lighting, but I do direct/edit & it looked fine to me. Congrats on all your successes.

Alastair Dixon
Visual Effects Lighting Showreel 2012

Hello Stage32 Folk, Id really appreciate it if you could take 2mins to have a look at my latest VFX Lighting Showreel for 2012. Most of the work was created for TV commercials and Film whilst working at The Moving Picture Company (MPC) and Aardman Animations, including recent work done on "The Pirat...

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Richard "RB" Botto

Hey Alastair, we recently added the ability for users to subscribe to Lounge topics. To get you started, we've automatically subscribed you to the production topic. You can see the latest posts in your subscribed topics by clicking the My Lounge subscriptions tab on your wall. You can easily add and update Lounge subscriptions by clicking Manage my subscriptions from the same page. Enjoy!...

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Richard "RB" Botto

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System Admin

Hey Alastair, a few days ago we implemented a new privacy setting to give you the option of accepting private messages only from users within your network. Today, I discovered a bug with the way this option is set for new users. I just wanted to let you know that the bug is now fixed, so all members are now able to receive private messages from any other member (the default setting). If you'd like to receive private messages only from users within your network, you can change this setting here. Also, you can access your privacy settings at any time from the drop-down menu that appears when you...

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Richard "RB" Botto

Hey Sara, I wanted to let you know about our new Updates section. We'll be posting all new features and site enhancements here in the future. Today's updates include photo captioning, our new theater resources section and enhanced privacy settings. Be sure to check back often. Plenty of new and exciting features are on the way.

Richard "RB" Botto

Hi Alastair. I'm RB, co-founder and CEO of Stage 32. I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work and attracting attention to their projects. That's why we created Stage 32. Our members run the gamut from film students to award winners. The community is now 50,000+ members strong spanning 175+ countries. This is a network for you, built by you. Like most things in life, the more you participate, the greater the rewards. We ask all new members to help us spread the word through other social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. We also ask that you help strengthen t...

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System Admin

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Alastair's network

Troy Starr
Tommy Shinaberry
Juliez Frazier
Geoff Hall
Gareth J. Rubery - Composer
Roxanne Ebrahimi
David Mc Intosh
Kirk Johnson
Inga Ryazanoff
Lane Wyrick
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