Two more video teasers for Billie's Kid Adoption Book

We have put together two new Facebook video teasers for Steve Tucker to help advertise the true story of his adoption and his search for his real parents in his book Billie's Kid. Both videos have been created using old Cine film supplied by Steve - one video has a Christmas ...

Triple-F DVD Authoring & Replication for Absolute Dogs

Filmed back in January 2017, Absolute Dogs Triple-F DVD is now finally off to the factory to be replicated. The film was put on hold by the AbsoluteDogs team for a few months while they worked on some other projects and releases. The footage was filmed well in advance and we have been work...

Realm of the Damned now on Amazon with Closed Captions

The full on black metal animated motion comic 'Realm of the Damned' (Tenebris Deos) featuring a heavy metal soundtrack from 'Sons of Balaur' has finally made its way to Amazon Prime with a little help from the Maniacs here in Devon. We created Closed Captions (Subtitles) fo...

Fuel Tank Inspection Video for Greenergy International

The first in a series of short 'behind the scenes' videos we are producing for Greenergy International is now online on their YouTube channel. Greenergy supply more then a quarter of the UKs road fuel, supplying to oil companies and supermarkets and are a branded wholesaler to Esso...

Engineering Nonlinearity videos now online

We have created a series of short films from the Engineering Nonlinearity (ENL) Conference held at Southampton University earlier in the year. The main project overview film (click on the link above or watch the ENL project video on this link) explains what this 5 year EPSRC-funded project...

Halloween trailer production for Billie's Kid Book

We have been working on a spooky new trailer for Billie's Kid, just in time for Halloween Written by Steve Tucker, who was adopted as a baby, Billies Kid is the true story of his search to find his biological mother and to discover where he came from. Better known as the frontman for ...

My Honor Was Loyalty feature film colour grading for Netflix

We have started re-grading the Independent feature film My Honor Was Loyalty. Set in World War 2 this is one soldiers story of the conflict and its effects on him. We got involved in this project last year when we created a DVD and Blu-ray version with multiple subtitles of the original fi...

Mass Product Photo Cloning & Re-touching for Google Shopping

We have just finished re-touching and uploading literally thousands of product photographs for online surf fashion retailer Genesis Surf Shop in Ilfracombe to allow them to comply with the latest Google Shopping channel requirements. We have been removing all watermarking and brand lo...

More VFX cleanups for Devon feature Scareycrows

We have finished another three Visual effects shots for Devon Independant feature Scareycrows - these were all 'clean up' shots to remove unwanted reflections in mirrors in a scene inside a Hairdresser salon. One shot had what looked like an XLR audio cable in shot in the mirror pl...

Sapphire v9 upgrade for Davinci Resolve

We have just upgraded our older version of Gen Arts Sapphire to the latest cross-host version 9 to run in After Effects, Premier Pro and Davinci Resolve. This version of the software works with any OFX application and so will work with Blackmagic Fusion Studio too. We first started using ...

VFX shots for Scareycrows comedy-horror feature

We have been working on a number of VFX shots to help finish off the independent feature Scareycrows. Filmed at various locations in Devon, Scareycrows is a feature length comedy-horror film about a trainee hairdresser fighting to save her boyfriend from a horde of killer scarecrows. We h...

VFX shots for horror short Portent

We have been helping out a fellow Shootingpeople.org member Dom Lee with some basic noise reduction filtering on 7 shots from his next short horror film 'Portent'. See its IMDB page for a bit more information about the actors. The film was all shot on Dartmoor, it's basically ...

Interview edit for Peter Ruddock Chief Executive Lockheed Martin UK

We have been editing an interview with the new Chief Executive of Lockheed Martin UK - Peter Ruddock, for Nowwatchit for an internal business update. The interview was nicely shot in London in Prores HQ in HD and supplied to us to edit with several variations and a wildtrack sound clip. We...

Final VFX shot completed for Indi feature IMMUNE

We have just completed our last VFX shot for Independent feature film IMMUNE due to be released at Coventry film festival this year. We used a combination of Mocha Pro and After Effects to do some face and hands tracking, rotoscoping and applied a desaturation effect to the infected actor....

Boat Stories DVD & Blu-ray production - now on sale

Maniac Films have produced both DVD and Blu-ray releases for the Boat Stories project. The DVD contains all 10 Boat Stories films as well as a number of bonus short clips. The Blu-ray edition features even more bonus clips and a newly completed Family Wheel animated featurette. Both rele...

New VFX Showreel Now Online

Here is our current Visual Effects VFX show reel with a selection of shots we did this year for the Independent feature file Age of Kill (@ageofkill) staring a host of TV soap stars. We did over 40 visual effects shots on this film in 4K - a lot of 4K tracking shots using Mocha Pro coupled...

3 Putsborough holiday cottage films completed

Over the last year we have been busy filming in and around three holiday cottages in the beautiful hamlet of Putsborough, North Devon. Rob, owner of the award winning Putsborough Beach, asked us to create promotional videos for his properties in Putsborough called The Anchorage & The ...

Croyde holiday cottage films completed and now online

Over the last year we have been busy filming in and around two holiday cottages in Croyde, North Devon. The owner of Putsborough Beach, asked us to create promotional videos for two properties in Croyde called The Reeds & Spindrift. We also worked on a number of videos for his prope...