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Behind the scenes / people pics. Not a lot of action shots but some more will be added to Sunday in the next day or two… I’ll also try to caption these asap! Edit 1: Some more shots added at the bottom of the post. One more (big one) to come. Let the page fully [...]

Here’s a few Storm wallpapers. They’re all either 1920×1080 or 1920×1200. Scale to fit your needs I wasn’t sure which pictures to include so please request any you’d like in the comments section below… NOTE: To bypass the viewer, just middle click to open in new tab and save from there or right click > [...]

Here’s another making-of. This isn’t detailed at all but I wanted to show the editing process from the initial panoramic to the final piece. It uses a lot of similar techniques to the Fundamentalist picture – a making of for that can be viewed here.

Myself and Arab #2, Marwan ‘The Fundamentalist’ Elgamal, hit the slopes for a bit of avalanche-cause mischief in La Plagne last week. The weather was amazing and so were my snowboard skills (obviously, come on…). His skiing skills left a lot to be desired however, and not only did he nearly impale himself in the [...]

Apart from rescuing baby unicorns being hunted down by trans-dimensional dinosaurs, my favourite thing to do in life is to watch behind-the-scenes videos (and Megastructures on National Geographic). I find that, although sometimes not very detailed at all, seeing making-of’s help you understand various aspects of a production – and this knowledge can then help [...]

I’ve received a number of emails asking about various aspects of the production since the video went live – some from students, some from other filmmakers and some from Spielberg. Some want to know which gear it was filmed on while others want to know how the ‘It-doesn’t-look-like-it-was-filmed-on-DSLR’s’ look was achieved. I’ll try to cover [...]