Amon Tobin “ISAM” Live show trailer

June 3rd, 2011 Visual Effects

Check out the trailer for Amon Tobin’s all new, highly ambitious, breathtaking “ISAM” live show. Tobin will be stepping away from previous DJ centric performances, and instead will be providing a large scale live audio/visual experience to select cities around the world. Designed in conjunction with Blasthaus, VSquared Labs, Vita Motus Design, Leviathan and others. Visuals feature projecting images onto complex structure.

Great negative space illustrations by Tang Yau Hoong

June 2nd, 2011 Graphic Design, Illustration

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The Walking Dead VFX breakdown

Check out the breakdown of visual effects in “The Walking Dead”. Awesome stuff!

Remove HTML links in WordPress post comments

Here’s a quick tip on how to remove those nasty spammy HTML links that people leave in your blog comments. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing bad in having links in comments but there’re many people who abuse this feature nowadays to create backlinks to their sites, leaving silly comments like “Hey your blog is awesome! Check out my “castration kits” website” or something stupid like that.

This can get really annoying so if you want to remove links in your WordPress comments all you need to do actually is to include this little bit of code in your theme’s functions.php file.

remove_filter('comment_text', 'make_clickable', 9);

That’s it. Save the file and upload it to your theme’s folder. You now won’t see any links in your blog comments. Enjoy spam free blogging.

Watchmen VFX breakdown

Very nice VFX breakdown video of a Warner Bros “Watchmen”. It includes the full range of digital VFX including 3D environments and cityscapes, CG Owl Ship, digital doubles and a variety of complex fx work.