Friday 2 December 2016

Retrofitting a gaming controller from a Linx Vision onto my Surface Pro 4

The finished thing! A gaming controller mounted onto my computer. :D



STEP 1
I bought a faulty Linx Vision from ebay. I thought the controller design was fantastic and wanted it on my Surface Pro 4. The Linx Vision was much smaller than my Surface Pro so I had to build a custom mount.


STEP 2
I took all the screws out to disassemble the whole thing.


STEP 3
Cutting the wires and attaching a USB cable to it instead. All the wires are colour coded so connecting a USB was very straight forward.


Moment of truth! Plugging in the USB. All the buttons lit up. :) Windows 10 reconised it as an xbox controller. Perfect. :)


Fired up Alice Madness Returns to test the controller. Everything works fine. I was very happy at this point.


STEP 4
Building the mount. A bit of wood I cut to 12.5 inches. I then cut and carved the ends to fit the control pads.


I used black acrylic paint. Applied with a sponge to get a smooth finish.


 Once the paint was dry I started screwing everything in.


I then carved a channel to tuck the wires into the wood. Applied some masking tape and painted over it again with black paint. 


STEP 5
Attaching the controller mount onto the backplate stand of my Surface Pro hard case. You can see the wire slightly pushing up the tape. But that's fine, not a big deal.


All attached. When folded back, the controller also works as a stand. Ta da!

Before.
Without the gaming controller case attached.


After.
WITH the gaming controller case attached. :D
Since the controller is only attached to the case I can still easily take it out the Surface Pro 4 which is handy.

Wednesday 9 November 2016

Maya 2017 Student Edition

Venturing out of my comfort zone of After Effects. I spent a day following an online tutorial for Maya 2017 and made my first scene rendered below. Turned out nicely :)




Here is the youtube link to the lesson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tElsku3aKQI

Tuesday 27 September 2016

Monday 26 September 2016

Sand on Glass - Stop Motion


My attempt at 'Sand on Glass' stop motion. Animating outside my comfort zone of After Effects. I thoroughly enjoyed this process.

Monday 25 July 2016

NATIONWIDE ISA video for in-branch and ATM digital screens 2016

FINAL VIDEO


TASKS
- Stablising extremely shaky footage
- Adding pink into blonde hair
- Changing the colour of the scooter from red to pink
- Colour correction so all footage match
- Motion graphics

ORIGINAL RAW FOOTAGE

Wednesday 6 January 2016

Loyal Family intro

A family guy inspired intro for an internal video at Nationwide.

Directed by David Daniels
Artwork by Peter Smith
After Effects work by Alex Fung