Dalai Lama public talks in UK this weekend

Saturday 16th of June: Dalai Lama in UK, Russell Brand confirmed as Compere for Stand Up and Be the Change Youth Event.



http://www.dalailama2012uk.org/

"I Know Me /Make a musical" on BBC2 this Thursday 19th at 4:00h (I was VFX supervisor on this)

I am very happy and excited to be part of this "Gamelab London" project (I set up and supervised the post production pipeline and did the on set supervising):

"A bully and his victim find themselves lost in a fantasy world.

Bemused and scared, the travellers are calmed by the spirit who will take them on a journey to help them understand anger, fear and loneliness.The musical featured in this programme was developed and performed by groups of pupils with special educational needs. At the end of the musical itself there are a few short workshops which can help

classes who would like to try to produce the musical themselves."

This is a musical I Know Me devised by Owen Smith and Rebecca Applin. All music is original and has been composed, arranged and directed by Rebecca Applin. The production has been produced and directed by Martin Wright and was devised over several months working with pupils from Abbey Hill School and Performing Arts Academy, Haringey Sixth Form Centre and College Park School. Other than the role of the Spirit taken by Kali Perkins, all other parts were performed entirely by pupils from the participating schools. The intended audience is similar schools with SEN provision and is designed to encourage such schools to produce the musical themselves. The programme will also appear on BBC Learning Zone Class clips in due course and will be supported with downloadable scores, lyrics and MP3 backing tracks.

More info here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01gk4v7

The Pirates! Premiere in Bristol

A little summary of The Pirates! Premiere in Bristol by my friend Jesús Diez-Pérez, for those who couldn't be there:

It was an amazing event. Everyone was dress smart or as a pirate (some as a smart pirate). It was great to great some friends in the queue, all of them looked gorgeus. We had to queue and then leave our phones/cameras at the entrance, so graphic documents are going to be tricky. At the entrance Peter Lord was greeting the visitors and i had a picture with him, actually two. Then, after seeing some suspicious trays with drinks we found out that they were giving wine and beer for free. They said "one per person" so I went once, took my wine, then took my glasses off so that they wouldn't recognise me and got another glass (easy!). Some girls dressed as pirates (very good looking) were giving shots of rum (no need to use tricks here). Ten minutes before the show we went up to the screenings, got our 3D glasses and entered the room. More friends here and there, it was really nice. Then the lights went off and there he was, Peter Lord walking to the mic, dress as the Pirate Captain with Polly the Dodo under his arm. He gave one of his glorious speeches (I realised then I missed them a little). After saying that Spielberg would never give a speech dreesed like that, thanking everyone for the hard work and having some problems with the echo in the mic, he introduced... Hugh Grant! That was great! People say he is a grumpy character but he seemed really funny to me. He said things like at last he could do some action acting, something he was never able to do and wished to be animated for the rest of his movies. Also he made fun of Peter Lord with things like "I don't really like him" or "his nose is too small for his face".

Then the movie started. Glorious, you have to go and see it, you get out with a smile in your face. And in the ends, the credits! with our names on them, a really special moment. After this, some more wine, rum, beers, more friends and off to London to work the next day. A night to be remembered...

Plus some advertising for very rich people:

http://animated-review.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/aardmans-pirates-in-tatler-magazine.html

Plus some advertising for very hungry people:

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/promotions/Happy-meal.html

Pirates! In an adventure with scientists is out at the end of the month!

In March 2011,Ben Lock, VFX producer on Aardman's "Pirates!In an adventure with scientists" asked me to come on

board as a Senior Digital Artist. Apart from doing previs, I had various tasks:

Cloud point data and on set photography, stereoscopic Nuke compositing and animating Cg elements,fluid simulations, modeling, texturing and shading in Mudbox and Renderman.

Check out some making ofs on YouTube:

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/the-pirates-band-of-misfits/featurette-voice-recording

The Pirates! Band of Misfits- Crew Vlog with Amanda Darby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AUYbRUq1o

The Pirates! Band of Misfits- Crew Vlog with Jonny Duddle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bym-tUJKyl8

Kids musical with Gamelab

Shot some wonderful green screen footage with Gamelab's Martin Wright for a BBC learning zone musical with autistic children.

Graphic Novel "Brixton Knight" out now

My Graphic Novel "Brixton Knight" (120 pages/softcover) is now available at

Orbital Comics
8 Great Newport Street London WC2H 7JA

You can also order a printed copy online at LULU

Alternatively....

download a FREE PDF (38mb) HERE

download a FREE EPUB (38mb) HERE
(save to desktop/ drag into your itunes books)

Inspired by Cervantes "Don Quixote".

Bashti, young energetic cleaning woman, is tired of her job at the London Museum. Also, she isn’t keen on the marriage her debt ridden uncle arranged for her on the other side of the planet. She is keen on dressing up, the clubbing scene and the music of ”Basement Jaxx". That’s why she decides to run away one night . And so an adventure starts, including Truman the bike courier and member of an ancient order of knights, mud fights, stage diving, Asian wise men, prostitutes with pop star ambitions, rockers dressed up as native Americans, sheep attacks, skinny dipping in lakes, arrogant Transvestites, Preachers in white tennis socks, Mermaids, passionate lovemaking on a summer night, being chased naked through Epping forest and cooking magic mushrooms.And trust me, the list doesn’t end here.

But how is she going to explain all this to her son? And why is he just like his father?

http://jayceee.com/graphic_novel/bk/frame_set_bk_A.html

"Alles mit J" Cologne Carnival Party February 2011