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Off-topic Rants
This is a very random collection of old blog posts from the original LateNite blog, Unreal Cafe, Resolve Cafe and Chris Hocking's past personal blogs.

We just watched this awesome 8min pilot for a kids television show called BELLYFANT: Sleepover - created in Unreal Engine. Very fun!

The awesome team at S1T2 have done a great blog post about their Unreal Fest presentation titled, UnrealFest 2023: How lateral thinking could...

Today is day two (and the final day) of Unreal Fest 2023 in the Gold Coast. Woohoo!

Today is day one of Unreal Fest 2023 in the Gold Coast. Woohoo!
This blog post was last updated on the 8th June 2018.
I know this is dumb, but it made me giggle. Nice to see Tarkin looking normal again.

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In today’s blog post, we have yet another very special guest.

In today’s blog post we have a very special guest, our absolutely incredible Makeup Designer, Marie Kealy

In this blog post we have two very special guests – first up is longtime collaborator and close friend, our amazing Director of Photography on The...

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If you haven’t already, check out Part 1 here.

So this is pretty weird.

I shot the very first footage for The Wizards of Aus at age nineteen with a couple of my friends acting in it.

The most important (and neglected) aspect of directing…
Tennis brings out the big guns.

Sure the first half of the year seemed relatively quiet in comparison to previous years.

Just the other day after purchasing a pork roll (no chirri) from my favourite Vietnamese pork roll emporium on Smith Street, I took a moment to think...
Kris Kringle Khristmas.

Earlier this week Michael Shanks was a guest on Steele Saunders podcast, ‘ This Isn’t The Podcast You’re Looking For

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It’s so dense.
The final duel…

Today we have a special guest blog entry from long-time friend and collaborator, Alistair Marks.

After some deliberation and a few lacklustre attempts, I asked myself what exactly I was trying to do with this little corner of the Internet.
On 19 July 2014, Inspiration Rentals screened three short films commissioned to show off the brand new Dragon camera from

It’s midnight on the last night of shooting what was an incredible documentary project in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea.

Early last year Chris Hocking flew up to Western Australia to help our very good friends Dave Christison
Written by Chris Hocking on 19th July 2014
Michael Shanks recently helped out with Visual Effects on this beautiful and quirky music video for Vance Joy’s debut album,
Michael Shanks recently helped out on this impressive (and slightly silly) music video for Dan Webb’s debut album
One of the most popular blog posts we’ve ever done has been on Calculating Timecode in Excel.

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I sat in the bumpy back seat of the car gazing out the window, surrounded by rugged cliffs, leaning palms and paddy fields, wondering what my...
Men’s 500 metre In Sochi’s Baby Park Stadium.
Michael Shanks recently helped out on this beautiful music video for All The Colours, directed and shot by our very good friend,

UPDATE (JUNE 2017): The PEAppDebugPreferencesModule.nib file no longer exists in the Final Cut Pro 10.3.4 package, but has been replaced with

Last night, thanks to the fantastic people at the Australian Screen Sound Guild, I had the opportunity to check out the latest ground-breaking Dolby...

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This Guest Blog has been written by our good friend, Joel Sharpe. Enjoy!

Woody Allen’s possible “loose retelling” of A Streetcar Named Desire starring a perfect cast consisting of award worthy performances by

There is no better place to learn about building a sustainable film and television industry than Denmark.

For the past couple of years, Chris and I have had the same conversation when the end of the year rolls around.

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Michael Shanks recently helped out with the Visual Effects on this impressive music video for Horrorshow

Way back in March this year, I once again had the privilege of filming for the Swiss non-profit organisation