Superman - Man of Steel Trailer

I'm currently in Cambodia, doing a bit of backpacking between jobs after finishing 6 months at MPC London. I actually did a bit of film research this morning at Ta Prohm Temple in Siem Reap, which was used as a set on Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie who it seems is a bit of legend round these parts!

I also found out the comic con trailer for Man of Steel was released which has possibly the coolest shot I've worked on in it (it kicks in after 1 min 11 seconds on the video below). MPC was great fun working on Prometheus and then with the big guy with a red cape, which quite frankly is a dream come true since I saw Clark Kent and Superman duke it out in a junkyard as a kid.



Anyhow this shot got "daily of the week" from Zack Snyder himself which was pretty damn cool. Layout's a great role, you really feel you're part of the film making process, working with the CG Supervisors on cameras, animation and environment layout, building clouds layers on top of scaled earth below to make the setup as realistic as possible.

The brief on the shot was that we were flying in a jet tracking superman about to break the speed of sound, the only material to work with were some framings from a previs sequence. We realised we were gonna be having to use some big camera lens sizes of 200mm to 400mm to achieve the shot, with Superman hitting speeds of over 800 mph (I love stats!). Still seeing this on the actual comic con trailer is one of the highlights of my career so far, along with working with the MPC layout crew.

New Showreel

Here's a new reel containing trailer shots I've worked on for Pirates! and the Jellyfish advert I animated for Virgin. There's a ton more material I've got from Pirates that hopefully I'll get permission to ad to the reel. I also had the luck to see the Prometheus IMAX screening the other day in London. Another great film I have been privileged enough to have worked on, it was pretty awesome seeing shots I helped produce in layout at MPC on the biggest screen in Europe!

Virgin Media Ad

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!