Richard Shepherd

(Flickr image from mar00ned) You know how there are those blogs that are updated regularly, and they have wonderful tutorials on everything? They keep you up to date with the latest trends. They have lots of regular commenters and a community of followers and evangelists? Yeah. This isn’t one of those blogs. I barely have [...]

This was the first film I ever made. In places, this shows. But like your first anything it’s very close to my heart – the perfections and the imperfections, I love them all. Everyone worked so hard, and the shortcomings you see are mine not theirs. Particular thanks must go to our wonderful producer Sandra [...]

The Pandas are getting ready, slowing positioning themselves for launch. Never before have so many Pandas worked so hard on a web app, crafting every inch with the finest bamboo their chubby little paws can carry. Here’s a sneak peak :)

A few years ago I worked with a bunch of very talented people on the short film Trapped. Trapped played at a number of film festivals throughout the world, including the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. I got to go to both with one of the producers, [...]

A couple of weeks ago I got an email from Ben who said “I would love to know how you do those header custom fonts …!!” Well, without wanting to turn this blog into an episode of Why Don’t You I thought I should really answer this question on the blog so that others could [...]

Everyone wants an iPad, including you. Yeah yeah, it’s easy to say “it’s just a big iPhone” and moan about how let down you are about the technology. But you want one. Even if only out of curiosity. I mean, look at it for goodness sake… It’s beautiful. Sleek, shiny, sexy. And thin. Nice and [...]

Yes, if you can see this post then you’ll know we’ve safely moved to Media Temple. Hooray! Why? Lots of reasons, but mainly because you’re going to see a huge upgrade over the coming weeks and I wanted to be with a host with a great reputation. (mt) is it!

This is a tutorial for beginners, and we were all beginners once. To a beginner I remember custom fields looking quite pointless. I couldn’t quite grasp what they were for. Then, after building a few WordPress sites, I watched an excellent tutorial from Chris Coyier over at CSS Tricks and it really opened my eyes. [...]

Okay, let’s cut straight to the chase. Here’s the nugget of wisdom that fell out of my brain the other day: At the point where ‘what I want to say’ meets ‘what you want to hear’ is a potential sale. Think about that for a while, and you’ve nailed email marketing. Not quite sure? Well [...]

Two degrees. That’s all it takes. This weekend I unearthed a bunch of short films and commericals I directed a couple of years ago, and thought they’d make a nice addition to the new site. They were part of a campaign to ‘Change the World in Five Minutes’, which I worked on with Film Australia [...]