Posts on this blog seem to have gotten a little slow recently but hopefully that will change soon. Work on The Amazing Spider-Man is now drawing to a close and it's looking like I'll have a break between projects. Which hopefully means I'll find some time to write some interesting posts here.
With great power comes great VFX work.
A big congrats to the Spidey team at Sony Imageworks. It may sound cheesy but one of the best things about this project was working with such a lovely bunch of people. For anyone interested, I'm on the right of the picture wearing the John O' Groats sweatshirt. Woooo! John O' Groats! Right? ... eh? Oh.
John Carter is released this week, the film I spent almost a year working on. This gives me an excuse to share this great picture of the animators from Double Negative's room 402 created by Graham Gallagher.
Our costumes relate to what we were working on at the time Dan Pozo, Chris Page, Graham and Francesco Canonico are dressed as Tharks. Craig Rutherford is wrestling with some Thark hatchlings, Stafford Lawrence dons a Thoat costume while Brecht Debaene and I are sharing a White Ape costume ... for some reason I'm the back end!
All VFX work on John Carter is now complete and the wrap party was held last Saturday in London's prestigious Natural History Museum. Unfortunately I was unable to attend due to being on a different continent, however someone from Double Negative made a movie of the event which has enabled me to get a taste of it, I've borrowed a bit from it below.
It's especially pleasing to to hear the director, Andrew Stanton's appreciation of all the hard work the many visual effects artists put into the film. Congratulations to everyone involved, I can't wait to see the finished film.
Here's a little something I worked on before leaving the UK. It's a promotional video Craig Bardsley, Julia Goehle and myself were commissioned to make for Angle & Curve - the company that I've been told by the unbiased owner, makes the best headphones on the globe.
From start to finish it took just 10 days. We were only able to work on it for a few hours each evening so unsurprisingly it is a little rough around the edges. Craig and myself devised the story and did the animation. Julia came up with the character design as well as some key-drawing clean-up.
Due to the tight deadline it was created as simply as possible, without using colour and drawing straight into the computer using the excellent free program Plastic Animation Paper.
As my day job usually has a focus on realism and detail it was refreshing to try and tell a whole story as simply yet clearly as possible. It was also a chance to try and rejuvenate my rusty drawing skills. Hope you like it.
The latest trailer forJohn Carter, the film I worked on for most of the last year has been released and I think this gives a much better sense of the scale of it. Hope you like it.
I'm also fortunate enough to have one of the shots I worked on feature, albeit very briefly. It's around the first ten second mark where two characters are forced into an areana at gun point.
The theatre release is scheduled 100 days away on the 9th March 2012.
It's seems to have been quite a while since I last wrote on this blog, I have been pretty busy of late. Firstly, there was an intense few months at Double Negative as we finished work on John Carter but I'm happy to say animation has now wrapped and what I saw of the film is looking very good indeed.
I have since relocated to Canada and started work at Sony Imageworks Vancouver animating on The Amazing Spider-man which is due to be released in June of next year.
As I'm now settled in over here I'm hoping I should be back to updating a little more regularly.
