April

Happy Easter!
After purchasing Shave and a Haircut.... I have been experimenting with fur!

Here is a fur ball I am working on.



Had a few small projects going on in the background, one for Thoughtden - a company based a Paintworks , and something in association with the Townswomen's Guild in Bath, here is their twitter page.... Still working on this Mag article. Better get back to work, over and out.

Week of 15th March

After a very busy 6 weeks working on a Hellman's Ketchup commercial, an animation for London Fashion week, and some visualisation projects for the Cheltenham festivals, I am back to writing an article for 3d world magazine, which also involves creating illustrations. Unfortunately all of this work is top secret, so I won't be posting anything pretty to look at for a few weeks yet.

Week of 22nd Feb

This week I delivered a 3d model of Goldbrick House (working with Document) to show the many rooms on each floor of the building. (for those of you who don't know, Goldbrick House is a Bar and Restaurant on Bristol's Park Street)
In the coming weeks it should end up on their website
www.goldbrickhouse.co.uk. The idea is that the floor of the room light up when you scroll the mouse over. Looking forward to seeing it in action.

Also this week I have started work on an article for 3D World Magazine. It won't be out for a few months, so I'll say more about it nearer the time.

Next week, I am back to bath, working on a Commercial for "A Large Evil Corporation"
Busy, busy, busy!

Better get back to it.

Some recent work.

Please note that this is not the confirmed line up for the Cheltenham Jazz Festival. See last post for full details.

Recent goings on...

Finally the Cheltenham Jazz Festival Brochure is out!
click here to see online

I worked on a few alternative 'CG text' front covers for this, which I will post in the next few days, plus a still of the map I produced can be found on page three.

This week I have been in Bath working for 'A Large evil Corporation' on an quirky animation for London fashion.

I am also in the process of delivering a visualisation for Cheltenham Liturature festival, again for Document Design.

3D, Maya and Renderman Training

If you are local to the Bristol or Bath area, and are interested in some 'one on one' or group 3D training for you or your company, please do get in contact.

Generally I try to be non-software specific, teaching concepts and giving the students key skills that can be transferred between whatever software they choose. I learnt 3D using Maya, and in my experience, if you understand Maya, then you will have no problem picking up other software, although the other way round is not so easily said.... Currently I render using 3Delight, a Renderman compliant renderer. I prefer this to Maya's renderer and Mental ray, as I have the pretty much the same flexibility as Prman (plus your first license is free). Prman is the renderer that Pixar use, and countless other big studios in Film and Television, so quite frankly, it is still the best.

Although I specialise in Lighting and Compositing, I have a good all round knowledge of Maya, for modelling, shading and texturing, rigging and animation. I am also happy to teach the basics of Mel scripting for non-programmer types. My biggest weakness is FX, Dynamics etc, but I do have a basic knowledge and would be happy to advise beginners (who would have though that I have an AS in Physics!)

I do have training and supervisory experience at Animal Logic, giving the introduction to newcomers in the Lighting Department. Last year I mentored students on the MA Computer Animation at Bournemouth University, (the National Center for computer animation) using an online blog. Checkout the blog http://ma3dlighting.blogspot.com/ (see the link in the Friend's blogs section to the right of this blog)

Cheltenham Jazz Festival

From the website http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/jazz/
An extract of the visualisation I produced for them can be seen near the end of the video.