Mark Forrester - Independent digital designer and online entrepreneur

At 19h30pm (South African Time) tonight I will be chatting to Naye Lupondwana on SAFM (South African FM) about what exactly it is that I do and what projects I am involved in. The interview will be part of the “After Dark” programme that showcases personalities you most probably haven’t heard of :)

International readers, if you have any interest in hearing the interview it should be available streaming off the SAFM website.

If you are visiting my site after listening to the interview please let me know via a comment below. Us bloggers love comments :)

This last weekend I got to see Wall-E. I’d been wanting to see it for sometime now as I’d heard from numerous friends that the CGI animation was absolutely fantastic.

See I’m a huge fan of animated movies, I love all the Pixar productions – Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Ratatouille, as well as other animated films like Ice Age and Shrek. What I find amazing is how animation is evolving and with every new film release the possibilies of animation become more and more limitless.

After Pixar achieved believable water physics in Finding Nemo, which must have been an incredibly difficult task, they then set themselves the monumental task of animating body language and emotion effectively and realistically. The end result of what must have been years of programming and 3D modelling was a loveable robot named Wall-E that doesn’t speak a word of any human voice, but communicates through robotic sounds and body language. (more…)

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit, and timeless message.

Link courtesy of thescott

Papercut is the latest WooThemes masterpiece that has just been launched. It’s a grungy, illustrative, paper-stained design, with an underlying pixel perfect grid structure.

The home page effectively displays a whole heap of content without looking too crowded, whilst the sidebar can be completely shuffled around as it is entirely widget based. (more…)