Happy New Year to all! This year will bring lots of new (and hopefully exciting) things my way. So what do I hope for from this year?

I’m currently snowed in working hard on my dissertation about how the increasing role of post production and VFX in films is changing the role of the director (or not, as the case may be). After 5th february I am out in the real world, free of educational shackles and ready for anything… Or not. As the case may be, I’ll be taking February to complete my VFX work on The Dark Side of The Earth pilot before it goes to Cannes Film Festival in May to hopefully gain some interest. After that, I need to find a real job, perhaps in film visual effects, but maybe something less specific to begin with.

In the meantime I’ll be available for freelance design / video work if any prospective clients are reading this. I’d also like to work some more on icons, wallpapers and GUI freebies in my spare time. I hope to be able to work on some exciting projects that are still in pre-production stages with friends from my university, and will post more about those in due course.

I can’t really say much about our main project other than that it is a planned sci-fi mini series designed to be viewed on portable devices and small screens. Hopefully it will become more than just video content, as the nature of the content could potentially be a lot more interesting than mere podcasts, but I’ll post more about that here once its developed past a proof-of-concept pilot.

Of course, once we are finished developing the series we’ll be watching it on our Apple Tablets. John Gruber’s post on the possibilities of what an Apple tablet could be is the most interesting speculation I have read about this by far. I am excited to find out what Steve has up his sleeve come the 26th…