Bald Explorer

For the past week I have been working on the graphics and CGI for the third Bald Explorer episode entitled ‘Smugglers on the South Coast of England’. This is not really my speciality and I struggle with the various programmes I use to create reasonable animations. It is always a learning curve, but thank goodness [...]

Richard Vobes is the Bald Explorer. He is traveling England with his Eriba Puck seeking out the history, customs and traditions of the country. This is the pilot episode, produced to test the concept for a potential series, either on the web or on TV. Lewes is the quaint county town that was once the [...]

It’s almost at the end. At least the filming process is and it has taken a while to complete. I aim to get one more shooting day in and then the final compiling together of all the strands. I have loved filming in this particular part of Britain, on the border between East Sussex and [...]

It was a glorious day when Jimmy Hastell and myself headed off on what should have been a cold January morning, but the 2012 weather has so far been mild, much to everyone’s surprise and no one could have asked for more than we two budding film makers. Its great to be back at helm [...]

My walking buddy Harriet and I stayed over in a fabulous 16th Century coaching inn just outside the very popular walking resort of Betws-y-Coed in North Wales at the beginning of the year (2012). We wanted to have a very simple introduction to the wonders of the Snowdonia National Park. We were not aiming to [...]