Creative Coding Podcast

Iain is joined by Katie Goode and John Campbell of Triangular Pixels – creators of hit VR game Unseen Diplomacy.

Taking video and photographs of your work is an increasingly essential skill, especially with the ubiquity of social media. Iain and Seb share everything they’ve ever learned about making your stuff look great. And Seb shares his recent in-depth process for choosing a new digital camera. Links from this episode : Smartphone tripod holder Matt Parker selfie stick on Boston bridge Go Pro stabilising gimbal Smartphone gimbal Cheap magnetic lens for smartphones OlloClip Go Pro camera Canon 600D (what I used at FFConf) Canon 50mm 1.8f plastic lens “nifty-fifty” FFconf 2016 photos LOMO Holga plastic lens for Canon camera iPhone Software Camera+ Filmic Pro Filmic Remote Film Convert Pro (plug-in for video editing software) Lunar Trails video shot on iPhone Sony 6300, cheaper mirrorless camera. Logitech C920 the cheapest option for high quality video recording according to Seb – a webcam! Sunny Lenarduzzi, a popular YouTuber who uses Logitech camera Canon 1200D entry level DSLR Canon 5D Full frame sensor camera Nikon D750 full frame sensor camera Niko Turner, excellent videographer who filmed PixelPyros and other projects by Seb Panasonic GH4 “budget” option for 4K video. (GH5 coming out imminently) Sony A7 series A7S Mark II – £2800 just for body! A7S Mark I – what Seb bought, second hand Fuji XT2 – the camera Seb fell in love with but ultimately didn’t buy Lenses Seb bought for his camera : Sony 50mm f1.8lens Sony 24-70mm f4 lens Now I See – Film of Brighton Beach by Philip Bloom that demonstrates the Sony A7S remarkable ability to see in the dark. Links to products are Amazon Affiliate links – support the podcast and go buy something!

It’s the Christmas special! Iain and Seb talk about the past year and what’s in store for 2017. And Seb talks through his Raspberry Pi and Node.js powered Stranger Things lights, connected to the upside-down (also known as the internet). 24Ways post – instructions how to make the lights yourself! Control the lights at lights.seb.ly @cc_pod @seb_ly @iainlobb

Part four of Iain’s series on game design covers all things audio! Get the most of your sound effects and music, and hear Iain and Seb attempt to sing classic arcade game music. @cc_pod @seb_ly @iainlobb

Continuing on from episdode 57, part three of Iain’s rapidly expanding series about game design covers animation techniques. @cc_pod @seb_ly @iainlobb

Seb and Iain catch up on the latest in hardware news, including the new Macbook Pros, Nintendo switch, Windows Surface Studio, PS4 Pro, PSVR, Xbox Scorpio, and the news from Unite, the Unity3D conference. @cc_pod @seb_ly @iainlobb

Seb finishes his crazy crunch time with 3 shows and winning the Lumen Interactive Award all in one week! Iain talks about character animation in Unity3D. 80s Argos Catalogue collection @cc_pod @seb_ly @iainlobb

After a summer mini-break Seb and Iain have a well overdue catch-up. Seb explains how he put a laser in a Nintendo Zapper gun and became a viral sensation, all for his brand new one-man show Hacked On Classics. @cc_pod @seb_ly @iainlobb

Iain is joined by indie game developer Jay Armstrong of Massive Monster, to talk about his upcoming game The Adventure Pals. superadventurepals.com @cc_pod @jaymaxarmstrong @iainlobb

Iain is joined by VR developer Pascal Auberson of Lumacode to talk all things virtual reality, from patio furniture and motion sickness, to Unity and Unreal. @cc_pod @ pauberson @iainlobb

Seb interviews Gordon Williams, the inventor of the Espruino, a JavaScript electronics prototyping platform. Gordon tells the story of how he built a JavaScript interpreter and how he ran his successful Kickstarter campaigns. Check out Gordon’s latest Kickstarter campaign- puck.js @cc_pod @espruino @seb_ly

In this rare political episode, Seb and Iain mourn the impending loss of their European Union citizenship. And also touch upon the Unity3D profiler and capacitive touch sensors. But mostly just sulk. Normal service will return next week. Follow us! @cc_pod @iainlobb @seb_ly References/Links: FactCheck: everything you need to know about immigration  “Even a large influx of migrant workers is only likely to affect average hourly wages in the UK by a few pence an hour, either upwards or downwards. Compared with the impact of changes to the tax system (for example), the effects of immigration are negligible.” FactCheck: Express goes bananas over EU Debunking the Express listicle Rupert Murdoch – “When I go into Downing Street they do what I say; when I go to Brussels they take no notice.” Quoted by the Evening Standard. Sarah Vine, wife of Conservative leadership candidate Michael Gove, in leaked letter suggesting that Boris Johnson was not popular with Murdoch/Dacre. Guardian article.  Michael Gove – “People have had enough of experts” Infinite Ammo Podcast Wait but Why AI posts Universal Basic Income will likely increase Social Cohesion Guy Standing – The Precariat

Iain is joined by game developer Jake Birkett, owner of Grey Alien Games, creator of Regency Solitaire. We talk about the development of Regency Solitaire, his new game Shadow Hand, and running a games business in general. @cc_pod @iainlobb @GreyAlien

The inimitable, irrepressible, and quite simply wonderful Dan Shiffman joins Seb as co-host, talking about his work with the Processing Foundation, P5.js, live coding, and his incredible catalog of videos that help artists to learn programming. And of course, rainbows. Coding Rainbow website @cc_pod @shiffman @seb_ly

Cate Huston is Director of Mobile Engineering at car-pooling start-up Ride and advisor to the crowd-funded laser cutter start-up GlowForge. Seb and Cate talk about the difficulty of transitioning from coder to manager, mobile app development, and colours. @cc_pod @seb_ly @catehstn

Seb and Iain meet in real life and catch up with recent projects and research. Iain is nauseated by VR headsets and Seb explains how lasers are just like cathode ray tubes. Kind of. @cc_pod @iainlobb @seb_ly

Iain catches up with former colleage Mat Groves, founder of game studio GoodBoy and creator of PixiJS, the browser based WebGL rendering engine. @cc_pod @iainlobb @doormat23

Continuing on from episode 53, Iain continues sharing his nuggets of game design wisdom, this time focusing on how to use the design and graphics in your game to tell a story and get the necessary information across. Part two of an increasingly inaccurately named trilogy of four. a href=”http://twitter.com/cc_pod”>@cc_pod @iainlobb @seb_ly

Seb is joined by regular guest co-host Val Head at the Render Conference in Oxford. Val is our roving reporter for this episode, and she interviews two of the Render Conference speakers Mariko Kosaka, and Sara Soueidan. Mariko talks about how she got deep into HTML5 canvas via a knitting machines and Sara shares her extensive knowledge of SVG. Mariko Kosaka – @kosamari kosamari.com her slides: http://kosamari.com/presentation/render-2016/ the scrollytelling talk info: vallandingham.me/think_you_can_scroll.html Sara Soueidan – @SaraSoueidan sarasoueidan.com The view box article: sarasoueidan.com/blog/svg-coordinate-systems/ Her articles on SVG: sarasoueidan.com/articles/ a href=”http://twitter.com/cc_pod”>@cc_pod @vlh @seb_ly

Seb and Iain catch up on the latest news, including Seb’s new IoT workshop and the Hackaday and Render conferences. They also talk about learning bash, wave goodbye to the Xbox 360 and reminisce over old school multimedia application Director. @cc_pod @iainlobb @seb_ly