Treble the IQ of any child, or indeed adult, by putting them in front of "Pirates! In an adventure with scientists!"

Yes, "Pirates! In an adventure with scientists!" is out on DVD.

I was on board as a Senior Digital Artist. 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............

Plus "prevising" Queen Victoria fighting in her underpants!

Here is a highly entertaning guardian review:

http://m.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/mar/29/the-pirates-adventure-scientists-review?cat=film&type=article

BBC Olympic venue visualizations

Check out the Olympic venue visualizations on the BBC (I think they sold them to quite a few different broadcasters around the world).
I helped Crystal CG with designing and texturing, as well as animating and consulting. And setting up some 3d comps in Nuke.


Not sure if anyone has done this before, building the WHOLE of greater London inside a 3d graphics application.

Look out for my bicycle parked on Acton High street (the green rusty one, locked to a lamppost).


Check out the HD video here.  I was involved in the flyovers like the one pictured above:


https://vimeo.com/46482786

Previs artist on Dredd

A new trailer for Alex Garland's (The beach/28 days later/sunshine) version of "Dredd" is out. (In 2010 I was previs artist on this, for "Destroy all monsters".)

More info here:

http://dreddthemovie.com/

Nuke artist for Unit TV

Through DigitalGurus, I helped UnitTV with some Nuke work on these commercials for TalkTalk broadband earlier this year.
Featuring a voice over by Helena Bonham-Carter, the 60” and 30” spots advertise various promotional offers from the phone provider.


Check them out here:


http://unit.tv/2012/01

CBBC's "Spirit Warriors" on iplayer again

Kids show I supervised in 2009, 1100 shots, every trick in the box on a shoe string budget.
Also learned a lot about love and compassion with production companies on this one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qbvxq

http://jayceee.com/clientsprojects/spiritwarriors/frame_set_spiritwarriors_A.html

Supervising for Champs commercials

Check out these commercials I just finished supervising through Soho Editors for Th1ng, featuring two giants of the NBA and NFL, Kevin Durant and Max Stafford.
The spots were created for Champs Sports, one of the largest sports retailers in the US.
I worked closely with director Justin Dickel and producer Hannah Cooper to achieve the time slice shots and seamless transitions, supervising a team of six 2d and 3d artists.
After doing the previs animatics in Maya in London, the high speed footage was shot in L.A..
Shots were than tracked, CG liquids and balls added, supports for the sportsmen painted out and the shots blended together in AfterFX.

Check out the commercials here:
http://blog.th1ng.com/2012/06/th2ngs-justin-dickel-hooks-up-with.html

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/