Leigh Dowding http://dowding.com Resource to digital goodness Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:00:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Well here it is. http://dowding.com/well-here-it-is/ http://dowding.com/well-here-it-is/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:00:41 +0000 leigh http://dowding.com/?p=42 So I spend most of my time working, researching and learning new stuff. So that means my blog is rarely up-to-date.

If you want to know what Google are doing in SEO through to what the latest digital publishing system from Adobe is, then I’m your man.

I love internal communications (or employee engagement – or perhaps we can think of another softer name) and I love animation, creative people. I am a producer. I love being organised ( my current job doesn’t need it too much), I love how it’s done as much as why. Creative is more important than ‘how it’s made’, but how it’s made needs to be answered first.

I am jealous of people that know more about art than me, and feel sorry for those that can’t switch off and enjoy a Hollywood action movie with virtually no plot but sounds and looks gorgeous (Tron comes to mind).

I love making a difference, being noticed, earning money and again, animation / motion.

I have a list of 39+ websites I take a look at every day. They range from funny videos, to the latest in flash, 3D and Analytics. I spend my time on the train watching movies and training videos. I don’t like to turn off. Then I get bored.

I would love a job in a small agency being creative, producer, director and ‘get it done’ / ‘get it fixed’ man. I create small websites and digital strategies for friends and businesses that can swap services (i.e. my hairdresser). A digital / communications generalist. I wonder if I will have a place in 20 years? hee hee.

]]> http://dowding.com/well-here-it-is/feed/ 0 Colour is perceived with language, not just visually http://dowding.com/colour-is-perceived-with-language-not-just-visually/ http://dowding.com/colour-is-perceived-with-language-not-just-visually/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:16:23 +0000 leigh http://dowding.com/?p=39 If colour has such an influence on how we perceive the world, how can these findings help brands, and for me, motion graphics, tell a story?

http://youtu.be/7MRhlKhjPWI?hd=1

]]> http://dowding.com/colour-is-perceived-with-language-not-just-visually/feed/ 0 BBC take Domesday off Acorn and put it online http://dowding.com/bbc-take-domesday-off-acorn-and-put-it-online/ http://dowding.com/bbc-take-domesday-off-acorn-and-put-it-online/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:53:52 +0000 leigh http://dowding.com/?p=36 In 1986 the BBC carried out their version of ‘the domesday’. It was also stored on Acorn computers using bespoke software. Well.. they’ve just spent loads of time getting all the information together and published them online.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday.

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Very nice free Cinema 4D plugin to break stuff up!

]]> http://dowding.com/cinema-4d-shatter-object/feed/ 0 Motion Graphics animation explaining Stuxnet http://dowding.com/motion-graphics-animation-explaining-stuxnet/ http://dowding.com/motion-graphics-animation-explaining-stuxnet/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:54:31 +0000 leigh http://dowding.com/?p=28 Scary stuff – nice animation

]]> http://dowding.com/motion-graphics-animation-explaining-stuxnet/feed/ 0 The A to Z of After Effects Effects http://dowding.com/the-a-to-z-of-after-effects-effects/ http://dowding.com/the-a-to-z-of-after-effects-effects/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:13:57 +0000 leigh http://dowding.com/?p=26 http://aeportal.blogspot.com/search/label/Effects%20A%20to%20Z

]]> http://dowding.com/the-a-to-z-of-after-effects-effects/feed/ 0 There’s mime, and then there’s mime. http://dowding.com/theres-mime-and-then-theres-mime/ http://dowding.com/theres-mime-and-then-theres-mime/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:24:35 +0000 leigh http://dowding.com/?p=23

]]> http://dowding.com/theres-mime-and-then-theres-mime/feed/ 0 After Effects 3D plugin from Video Copilots http://dowding.com/after-effects-3d-plugin-from-video-copilots/ http://dowding.com/after-effects-3d-plugin-from-video-copilots/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:19:27 +0000 leigh http://dowding.com/?p=21 Element 3D look interesting. Just trying to think of ways to use it.

http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2011/07/first-look-at-new-plug-in-element-3d/

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http://www.pedroconti.com/

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Mission Impossible 5 – Will it stack up?

Find out more at IMDB

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