September 2010 Demo Reel

Once again my dear friends, the time has come to put out a new demo reel. The year at Teesside University is behind me and it is time to fill out job applications. Or so I've been told anyway. Read More...

AVE ICA complete at last

So here is the result of the past months work, from idea to storyboard, previs to film shoot, modelling to compositing. Hope it isn't entirely hopeless :-) Read More...

It’s been a while

So it's been a while a few weeks a couple of months. First there was Easter, then there was intensive work to finish the final year project and write a good report, then Studio Practice & Business had its turn, and suddenly and without quite knowing how I got there, two months had just vanished. Read More...

AVE previs ready

Christmas is long gone and I'm back in Middlesbrough after a refreshing break. The first thing I had to focus on when I got back was to create a presentation for Advanced Visual Effects where we were to present a storyboard, previs, schedule and a couple of other things regarding the ICA. Read More...

Storyboard for Advanced Visual Effects Module

After Bjørne helped me come up with a new idea for my AVE ICA (Advanced Visual Effects In Course Assessment, quite a mouthful) I've been meaning to create a storyboard so I can start test-shooting in the sound stage. Read More...

Aftermath

At long last, the project is almost over. Less than two days away as of this writing. After delivering the final film a couple of weeks ago, I've spent my time relaxing, creating a short "making of" with the rest of Green Spill, writing stuff on this blog and a self assessment document. Read More...

Speed comp: 64 shots in 4 days

Having finished rendering and vfx shots, and with a little more than a week to deadline, compositing was next on the list. Beforehand, I had estimated compositing would take a day or two. I had already test comped nearly one third of the shots and thought I could use those as templates for the rest. The only thing I hadn't done before in any shot was thinking about the suns position and the movement of the clouds. Read More...

Burning the candle at both ends

With less than three weeks left of the project, animation was finished to a point where I could start adding fire and smoke to finished shots. Read More...

Another short in the can

Well, technically it's been finished for a week now, I've just been too fed up to blog about it until now. The past month has been incredibly busy and seeing as my field, post production, comes last (who would have thought?), I haven't been sleeping that much lately. Read More...

Unforeseen stuff

Everything that can go wrong will go wrong, right? Or so a guy called Murphy felt and it's become uncomfortably true lately. Read More...