October 2009 Showreel

New showreel for October 2009 containing a couple of some of the demon shots I animated on Solomon Kane which are on the trailer. Lets hope this gets a release in the UK!!!

July 2009 Public Reel

Well it's been a while since I've posted, just got back from Barcelona and am still currently on the hunt for jobs. BUT got clearance to show some test creature work I did, so hopefully you'll enjoy having a look at the two new snake sequences in the reel.



I was given a pretty free rein on this by my old boss Andy Morley and producer Stef Drury, so picked the backplate film for the python to work on, and how to animate the cobra. Good times recording scary snake voices into the Apple Mac!

Showreel Breakdown

Shot 1,2 & 3 - Hellboy 2
Weapon tip replacement and main Hellboy character roto animation for shading and lighting, as well as dust particle collision animation.

Shot 4 - Jungle Book Python Test
Motion path animation, using CV curve deformers. Camera track setup completed as well.

Shot 5, 6 & 7 - Animal Planet Dog and Meerkat Idents
Quadruped and Biped rig set, soft skinning and all character animation by Nick Hanks.

Shot 8, 9 & 10 - Jungle Book Cobra Test
Motion Path and Lip Sync Character Animation completed by Nick Hanks, also lighting shading rig set up.

Shot 11 - Animal Planet Shark Ident
Rig, camera setup and animation by Nick Hanks.

Shot 12 - 16 Hellboy 2
Weapon tip replacement and main Hellboy character roto animation for shading and lighting, as well as dust particle collision animation.

Shot 17-18 Spitfire
All spitfire and camera animation by Nick Hanks

Shot 19 - 24 Personal Animations
All character and lipsync animation, lighting and rendering by Nick Hanks, using own reference footage shot with camcorder.

April 2009 Public Showreel

Hi, so here's the public show reel I'm going to be handing around. I've also got another reel for interviews containing all of the character animation work I did on Solomon Kane which hopefully I'll be showing as well at some stage!

All in all just a bit of tightening on the old reel.

October 2008 Showreel

So here it is, my new showreel with the Animal Planet and Hellboy 2 stuff on there. There wll be an update as soon as the Solomon Kane character animation I did becomes available!

Hellboy 2 and Animal Planet

Hi folks I can't get this stuff on embedded direct, as I'm waiting for DVD release on Hellboy 2 so the best I can do for now is the bold links below!

HELLBOY 2 SHOWREEL
(spears, blade, character roto and dust animation in the second half of the reel)

ANIMAL PLANET SHOWREEL
(dog, meerkat, shark and lettering animation)

We've also finished Solomon Kane at Lip Sync Post too, but again it's gonna be a while before that shows up, but hopefully soon I'll have (YET!) another reel up ready for my next batch of jobs apps.








I've had an awesome time again at LipSync so once again cheers to Andy and Stef for trusting my animation skills enough to let me loose on their work, the rest of the 3D Boys and everybody else who had to queue behing me for peanut butter on toast in the kitchen.




"Dust, people, dust!!!!"

New Showreel May 2008

Here's my new showreel then:-



Can't put most of the stuff I've actually done over the past 7 weeks on it, but hopefully one day will become available to you the general public.

Cobra Strike

Well, here it is the cobra strike.



Props out (in the words of Westwood and big Trev Nelson) to Andy Morley at Lipsyncpost for giving me the opportunity to animate there, James Nichols for doing the modeling and texture mapping and showing me how to assign UV texture maps (can't wait to see the final model when the texturing is finished), and Jon Wood for the lighting, spotlights rule and good to see my T2 lighting toned down slightly.

And her's a few stills from the sequence:-







So, there you go a work in progress looking OK.

Cheers guys.