almost oscar nominated again

well in the last 3/4 yeasr in film I've worked on one oscar award winning film, and one oscar nominated film, those were:

The Golden Compass - 2007 oscar for visual effects
The Dark Knight - 2008 nominated for oscar in visual effects

well....this year, the final 15 potential nominee's have been announced! they are:

“Alice in Wonderland”
“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”
“Clash of the Titans”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1″
“Hereafter”
“Inception”
“Iron Man 2″
“The Last Airbender”
“Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief”
“Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”
“Scott Pilgrim vs the World”
“Shutter Island”
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
“Tron: Legacy”
“Unstoppable”

....i have two films in this list: clash of the titans and Prince of Persia..... my personal opinion is that its a two horse race between inception and tron legacy, but you never know.....fingers crossed, would be nice to be nominated again!

Mr James's reel!

Hello everyone, well another day, another update, today im showcasing the work of James Stone. James is another modeller at cinesite, and his work is excellent! He also teaches at The Animation Workshop in Denmark...and, although he doesnt have a website at the moment, he does have an excellent new showreel! check it out:

new tutorials!

Hello everyone, well as i said i was going to be making updates, here are some more, ive had a new series of tutorials published on 3d.dtuts.com

I am now regularly recording tutorials exclusively for this site, they are very accomodating, and get pretty good coverage, so im rather happy with the arrangement! they ahve posted part 1 of a new series I have just sent them on:

How to model a low poly building for games

there are 2 parts, and its a pretty easy to follow series. I record call my tutorials in real time, so you cant follow along with me, and if it takes 40 minutes...well then thats just how long it takes...is simple and effective.

anyway, here is the link to part 1: HERE

and the embedded video can be viewed here, enjoy:

long delayed updates!

Hello everyone, well firstly....an apology! its been apsolutely months since i last made an update, truth is, ive been extremely busy both at home and on the work front! .... since july, ive had two new tutorial series published, and im working on a fourth/fifth. some exciting new trailers from cinesite have been released, ive come across some good reels i should have shared, so in the next couple of days and weeks im gonna make an effort to catch up on all of this!

so lets kick things off, with the new trailer for Battle Los Angeles, this is film cinesite did a large part of the visual effects for over last spring, I think it looks great, and a darn sight better than 'skyline' which it is bound to be compared to. why do these films always come out in pairs? armageddon and deep impact, a bugs life and ants, big vfx features always seem to come out twos.... its ood. anyway from what ive seen here, this looks like a visual feast, so i defiantely recommend you go see it, several excellent artist i know worked on it, so it should be thoroughly enjoyable!

here is trailer 2: