Mark Forrester - Independent digital designer and online entrepreneur

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…)

It’s great to see a worthy cause getting some media attention. It’s even better when that worthy cause is one of my favourite websites, SA Rocks, and it is seen on television sporting one of my website designs.

Congrats to Nic Haralambous, I hope this television feature brings you many new visitors and rocking new opportunities.

A couple days late, but just a quick note to point you in the direction of a recent interview I did with Nic Haralambous for his Mail & Guardian Techleader blog. In it I discuss my design work, business ventures and what it is that I really do.

If you are bored at work, or have no work to do, grab a coffee and have a read over here.

At 7.30am this morning I embarrassingly admit I was one of those sad wotsits sitting outside an O2 store eagerly waiting for the doors to open at 8.02am so I could get my hands on some Apple goodness – the iPhone 3G.

Apparently the first bloke in the queue got there at 4.30am!

I tried hiding behind the big geeky Afrikaans dutchman (who clearly didn’t get out much), in front of me when the schoolkids walked past us on their way to school, hurling abuse at the queue. I then overheard the big geeky dutchman tell the guy next to him how he camped the night outside a computer store in Dubai to get his hands on Windows 95 back in the day.

I really was start to feeling like quite a geek. (more…)