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A commercial I did a bit of animation got released in the UK this week. More technical animation than I've done before, playing around with different hair and cloth settings in Maya to make the jellyfish work.

Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists Trailer

Here's the latest trailer for "Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists". I spent a good year previs-ing sequences on this with Peter Lord (aka the nicest director in the world) before heading into VFX animation. There are a few shots of the CG Pirate Captains ship that I animated in here too, so nice to see some of my work already up on the big screen.

A friend of mine also had the luck to catch an advanced screening of this last night in Leicester Square, and the good news is it got a heaaaaarrrggghty thumbs up. Can't wait to see it finally!

Showreel Including "Wonders of the Solar System" and "How Earth Made Us"

Here's a new reel containing some shots I previsualised and animated on "Wonders of the Solar System" and "How Earth Made Us" at Prime Focus World for the BBC.

Wonders of the Solar System

Here's a few clips of VFX shots I did the camera and asset animation on for Wonders of the Solar System at Prime Focus London for the BBC.



The shots only look so good though thanks to a great VFX team including Simon Clarke, Melody Woodford, Stephen Waugh, Jon Keene, Andre Hitsoy, John Hasted, Christopher Anthony, Prodeep Ghosh, Goolzar Buchia, Karan Juara, Seema Schere, Sajeel Shukla, Nick Hanks, Peter Forsythe, Keith Devlin, Bruno Fernandes, Graham Stott, Safiya Ravat, Mark Corpus, Jeevan Singaram, Ryan Locke & Milan Schere (breathes out).

In case you're wondering the music is from Daft Punk's "Tron Legacy" soundtrack, well worth checking out (I bought the CD straight after watching - commercial sucker)!

Note:- Well 5 minutes after upload they took down the audio, it's that good - seriously!

Shorter Reel

On the advice from workmates I've chopped my reel down.



I was hoping to get some of the shots I worked on last/early this year for "Wonders of the Solar System" and "How Earth Made Us" on the BBC but haven't had a reply from Prime Focus World yet!

Busy times at Aardman

For those who don't know (ie my non facebook buddies) I've been at Aardman Animation now for over 4 months working on their next stop motion picture, so sorry for the delay (and thanks to old Uni mates for kicking my ass into saying what I've been up to in the last year or so) in updating, but I've been pretty busy working.

All I can say is it's been awesome so far, working with some seriously cool people who really know what they're doing in the film making process, enough so that Matt Groening and Miyazaki send there own personal drawings to them to say how much they love their films too! And I get to hang out with Wallace and Gromit in the flesh / plasticine sometimes.

Since then the two BBC series I worked on at Prime Focus "How Earth Made Us" and "Wonders of the Solar System" have both been aired, and gained record viewing figures. Here's the trailer for Brian Cox's "Wonders of the Solar System"(he's a bit of a secret hero of mine, watch the extras on "Sunshine" - he gives a great commentary on how he worked with Danny Boyle on making a fictional film as real as possible):-

Nominated for the British Animation Awards

I found out this week that I've been nominated as part of Lipsync Post Graphics Team in the top three entries for the British Animation Industry Awards (BAA's) in the Best TV/Film Graphics category.

Here's a link to the news and sequence for Animal Planets rebranding where I animated the dog, meerkat and shark (which you can also see on my reel):-

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