a sort of update

Hello all

well its approaching 2010, and I though i would round off the year with a few updates on whats happening with me.

a brand new clash of the titans trailer has just been realised, which is exciting! it heavily features the work we have been doing at Cinesite, so thats cool. Realease date is now the 26th March, which is sooner than I expected, but nice to know its coming up.

Speaking of Cinesite, Im about half way through my contact here now, its been about 7 months so, far and i must say its a very nice company, friendly and full of talented people. I also think its about the right size, not too big, not too small, meaning you pretty much know everyone, but its large enough that you can mingle, and work with different teams, definatley getting very comfortable here! might post some photos from the work xmas party if im in the mood?

Have been thinking about updating the website, nothing too big, just updating some of the link, adding some new pics and maybe updating the text a bit, i have several projects from the last year thats have yet to be showcased on the site, including the opening cinematic from the beatles rock band game, several small adverts, the work teaching in denmark, and (a bit later in the year perhaps) the two films i have worked on so far with Cinesite.

Im also thinking of putting some personal projects online here, i dont usually have time, for such things, but i figured if i posted some 'work in progress' shots online it might spur me to develop the work further.

In other news i am thinking of returning to denmark to teach again in the spring, its dependant on what film i am working on with cinesite and how flexible my time is. we will see.

anyway, thats all for now, will update again when i can

adios

Adam

clash of the titans trailer!

wahaaaay!

the new clash of the titans trailer has been released! and i think it looks kick ass! lots of my work in here, but im not sure about how much i can releal at this point, so just sit back and enjoy!

prince of persia trailer released!

hello all

well the prince of persia trailer has finally been released online. The film itself comes out next summer, looks like its going to be the summer blockbuster.

im afriad none of my work in the trailer, but its nice to see the film coming together and i thought you might be intreaged to see the sort of thing i have been working on this year, (and at cinesite). this is the first film i have worked on since 'The Tale of Despereaux' with framestore, but more importantly its the first film i have modelled on since 'The Dark Knight, which was over a year ago now, and ...... most significantly, its the first film i have some texture work in (although i doubt i will be credited with that)

once the film it out on DVD i will detail my role on the project, but for now, sit back and enjoy the first trailer for 'The Prince of Persia'

Some more Beatles related goodness

Following on from my earlier post about my work on the Bealtes: Rock Band intro, im now really excited to show you the game 'outro'.

With the release of the game earlier this month alot of the graphic work has been released onto youtube. My involvement with this was once again as a modeller and texture artist, working with Passion Pictures. The biggest example of my work on the outro are the instruments, which were modelled in Modo 302 and textured using photoshop and I think they look great in the final render, a great mix of 2d and 3d animation.

enjoy:

Beatles Rockband!

Hey all, just a quick note today, to say, they finally made it public! the promo i was working on at Passion Pictures was for none other than 'Beatles Rockband', which has been drivingme mad keeping it silent. thankfully the game makers revealed the opening cinematic to the world at E3, so I am now happy to present to you...... a weblink...................to that promo!

LINK

I modelled and Textured a number of things for this, will have more details later, but for now, enjoy the promo. The Games is released in 3 months, 09/09/09

Press Bonanza!

Hello all

well, I've had a bit of a press coverage over the last few weeks, first appearing in a supplement of the independent on graduates in design, and then again yesterday being quoted in the daily star

you can see a scan of yesterdays (16/06/09) daily star cutting here:



and you can read the online version of the independant article on their website here (scroll down):

LINK

As soon as i scan the independent article i will upload the pic and the date details.

Adam

Cinesite!

Hello all

some news for you this month as of last monday (the 18th) I am now an employee of Cinesite London. Its great to be working in Film again, and it looks like im gonna be here for the best part of a year, so should have some exciting new work to show at the end of it all.

Working as a modeller again, but i think it may be straying into texturing before too long, will keep you posted with any news that I can.

In the meantime heres a little about Cinesite:

"Cinesite offices in Hollywood and London were established in 1991 and 1994 respectively, as test sites for Kodak's Cineon computer system, an end-to-end solution for 2K and 4K digital files. Cinesite became so successful in its own right, however, that after Cineon was discontinued by Kodak in 1997, Cinesite developed into a visual effects facility. In 2003, Cinesite's Hollywood branch became incorporated, by Kodak, into LaserPacific, a multimedia, DVD authoring digital intermediate and post-production facility.

Initially, the company worked solely as a visual effects facility for film. Since 1999, it has increasingly become involved in television, creating effects for several productions, including HBO's Band of Brothers in 2002; Rome in 2006, again for HBO; and The State Withi for the BBC in 2006.

The company has won awards for its visual effects, gaining an Emmy Award nomination and a Royal Television Society award for Band of Brothers. Its work for Rome was awarded the Emmy for Visual Effects in 2005."

Cinesite is also part of the visual effects team that won an Oscar for the Golden Compass in 2007

you can fine more info HERE

fatcap competition

Hello all

another update from the animation workshop, just thought I would post some details here of a competion I ran for my class while teaching in denmark.

I wanted to see how they would handle a basic brief that was much simpler than it looked, so I challenged them to model and render a 'fatcap' figureing by kidrobot. Kidrobot sell these figures as collectables and in unmarked boxes so you never know which one you will get, the designs on each model come from various artists and designers around the world and are rather cool if you ask me. The challenge here is that the shape is, while organic quite specific and has both hard and soft edges, so while it look simple, is in fact, somewhat of a challenge. (there are some pics below, i must confess, they arent mine.)




I gave them three weeks to submit (waaaayyy too much time, but we had other things to do), to model one of these figures and here are the winning results. The catagories were: BEST RENDER, BEST TEXTURE and MOST IMPROVED MODELLER.

Here are the winners:

BEST RENDER (and) BEST TEXTURE:

Jonothan Brusch

I thought Jonothans image was excellent, the texture is interesting and cool, and there render is nice and simple, works perfectly for the subject. also the model is spot on, so well done Jonothan.



MOST IMPROVED MODELLER:

Casper Wermuth

Casper modelled this as soon as I set the task, dedicated and enthusiastic his attitude to the project was admirable, and while the model isnt 100 percent accurate, it showed huge improvement as a modeller and a good approach all round. well done Casper



so thats it for Denmark for now, may well pop back here later in the year to teach another group basic modelling, we shall have to see. Its been fun!

some work by my students

Hey all, just wanted to post some work by my students, this was from an exercise in low poly speed modeling, they had roughly one hour to model a new york style building (which i had given them reference for), and then these models were pieced together to make a "block". I think the end result is excellent and just goes to show what you can do with a limited time if you keep things simple.

here are some renders (we duplicated the block several times to give the impression of a city)

Teaching at the Animation Workshop

Hey all

So I've taken a month out of commercial work to go and teach at the animation workshop in Viborg, in Denmark.

Its a very cool place, im teaching the 1st year 'CG Artist' course its a BA course, and we're currently working on characer modelling and mudbox.

thought i would post some work, so here is a quick turntable of the character i am modelling to teach the class, its a depiction of Peter Parker by artist 'Kizer' from the deviant art forums.

you can check out the website for the animation workshop here: LINK

TURNTABLE:

Peter parker from adam dewhirst on Vimeo.

A Passion for work

Hey all

just wanted to update you all on my latest whereabouts and projects, since January 2009 ive been working at Passion Pictures as a modeller using luxology's MODO. Its always a challenge to have to work with a new piece of software, but it can be rewarding and its definatley a plus on the CV. I have to say Modo is a very nice modelling program, since returning to maya, ive realised how clunky is it. The one thing Modo is missing is a decent 'snap to point' tool.

Anyway, im digressing...Passion Pictures, very cool place, based in London's Soho. They have created some outstanding work including the Gorilla's videos (most of em), the sony bravia bunny adverts, and most recently the compare the meercat adverts (which ive included below)



details of the actual project ive been working on, will be realised soon, so check back here to see what this cool project is! (no info just yet!)

all the best

Adam

Im Oscar Nominated!

...well i say 'I', i mean to say 'we'

Yep, the Dark Knight has been nominated for an oscar in 'Achievement in Visual Effects'

which is fantastic! and the second one for me, since we also won the visual effects oscar last year with 'The Golden Compass'

fingers crossed i may be a part of 2 oscar wins, but our competition is stiff, we are up against Iron Man and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, both of which have great CG.

The Work of Guy Buckley

Hello all

Just wanted to drop a small mention to my friend Guy, who has just launched his new website

www.guybuckley.co.uk



I worked with Guy about 3 years ago on two computer games projects modelling and texturing games assets, hes a great guy and a very talented modeller! and unlike me, can handle Nurbs like an expert!

so have a look round his website and if your looking for a Nurbs or Hard Surface Modeller, I totally recommend Guy!
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