Archive for the 'TV' Category

A Photoshop filter for four bit images

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

I currently find myself redesigning an HD PVR service with a rather limited graphical specification for the on-screen display. The set-top box can only handle images with four bits per channel, giving a total of 4096 colors to work with. Not quite what one would expect from an HD set-top-box…
A company called Telegraphics have previously [...]

Designing for television

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

I was recently hired by Opera Software to give a course on television design for the team responsible for adapting the Opera web browser for Nintendo Wii. With more than six years of experience in designing interactive applications and motion graphics for television, I found that this was a great trigger [...]

LOST in Tesselation

Friday, May 5th, 2006

It’s sad to see a big budget productions resolve to mediocre solutions. The title sequence for LOST is so bad it makes me want to cry. It looks like it was made by someone who had gotten their hands on Maya for the very first time. The logo seems to be using the default material, [...]