Design work for 22 Portsea Place

 Over the last 4 year I've worked as a freelance designer for the Kardo-Findlater art collection formerly housed at 22 Portsea Place. During that time, collectively we have run a series of interventions on one particular print, which was part of the origional collection. I thought it would be fun to share a bunch of those interventions. These are all done in photoshop over several years, but its fun to see how the origional design has been reused.

 
 

Les Mis Trailer!

So Les Miserables is released on Jan 11th, and I had a small hand in it, as mentioned in my last post, can't really say what, but this film has OSCAR written all over it! looking forward to finally getting to take my family along to see it.

for those of you that havent seen anything yet, here is the new international trailer ... looks pretty epic!


for those of you reading this.... remind me to make more posts! trying to do one a week!

Les Mis screening

So last night was the world premier of the film adaptation of the musical of Les Miserables.

BUT... more importantly the night before that was the cast and crew screening in London's Leicester square... and it was kind of awesome. I have honestly never been to such a ram packed cast and crew screening, it was quite an atmosphere just going in... and it proved to be a similar level of excitement throughout the film!

to start with we were treated to an introduction by not only the director - Tom Hooper, but also by the leading man - wolverine himself - Hugh Jackman!

Hugh gives a quick intro

Im not going to give away too much about the film, but the audience reaction was incredible, people clapped at the end of songs.... and not just once, throughout the film, it really is an epic epic production, and not just musically, visually its a treat! I must admit I was quite envious of some of the shots I didn't get to work on.

Its released Jan 11th in the Uk, and I thoroughly recommend you go see it, its pretty amazing. Well done to everyone at The Mill who put in the long hours to get this thing to the screen! Great work.

making of Dr Who

The mill have released a making of from the first episode of Dr Who i worked on! great behind the scenes info

my work on this was the modelling, sculpting and texture of the ankylosaurus, - the two dinosaurs that appear behind the blast doors at the beginning and smash the corridors to pieces.

and the textures of the pterodactyl - which has to be upresed for close up work.

great episode to get to work on, really enjoyed it and superb work by the mill, was lucky to be a part of it!

move to The Mill and Dr Who

well.... im sorry...

its been ages since ive posted.... really too long! , ive totally let this blog slide into oblivion.... i dont mean to, it just happens

of course the good news, is that a lot has happened since i last posted! when i last left you, I was working on WWZ at Cinesite, sadly that has now come to an end, but no bridges were burnt, its all part of the industry I work in, simply put, they had no work to do... so ...i left

and I am now working at Mill Film/Tv a division of "The Mill"... and I love it! , its a great place to work, very friendly, great work, and all in all, im happy things have turned out this way. Nothing bad to say against Cinsite, but being lead modeller has challenges that are tough and for 9 months I did very little modelling and a lot of scheduling! ... its great to be back modelling, and whats more texturing! have finally had the time to pick up Mari, and despite a bumpy start, its a fantastic program, I havent touched photoshop in months! Mari i like a cross between mudbox and photoshop, makes incredibly detailed textures incredibly easy! love it.

... so what have I been working on? well about 5 or 6 different things since we last spoke, and saldy i can only mention 1... the others will come soon, and hopefully i will remember to post about them, oh and i did a tiny bit of work on the new sky one series "Sinbad" ...but the big one..... the big one, i can tell you about is....

DR WHO!!!!

dr...friggin who!... was very excited when i found that out, its a real cult icon of a show! ... I've worked on two episode this season and a bunch of characters... first up airing this saturday on an episode entitled "dinosaurs on a spaceship"...well there are some dinosaurs, wont go into detail, but really happy with how it came out, got to model, sculpt, texture a few beasties.... its a cracking episode!

the other ep i worked on, sadly i cant talk about, but its really big and im super excited about it!

anyway, will endevour to appear here more, have loads of projects on the go with swifty scooters, trained monkey, more tutorials, a ninja turtle and 3D artist magazine! so stay tuned! please!

Adam

(oh and those images above....sadly not my dinosaur..... its another one!)

WWZ is a trilogy???

Apparently....according to Brad Pitt, WWZ is going to be a series of films, a trilogy no less. It seems this is the trendy thing to do these days, announce that the film your working on is one of many, does this create hype? buzz? I'm not sure it does, i mean look what happened witht he Golden Compass! That film was based off a trilogy of books, the trailers made mention of the series as a trilogy and then just before the film came out, it was edited to be one stand alone film with a very loose ending, just in case.... I think you have to be supremely confident in the quality of your film to announce its going to be a Trilogy or else your gonna look like an idiot! But hey, its far more likely that its just a marketing ploy to drum up interest in the film.

Sooooo, what does this mean for the VFX? well very little is my honest answer, I have worked on franchsied filmed before and it very rarely stays with the same company, with the odd exception of something like Transformers and Star wars, which has always been done by ILM. Harry Potter, Narnia, the Batman films, all done by different post houses, and why? because they out bid each other, maybe the VFX looks good, but perhaps the working relationship between the VFX house and the production broke down? who knows, but more often that not, a new film means you go back to the drawing board on the VFX! nothing is secure in post production and the simple development in software means that in as little 2 years, a company that handle 80/90 percent of the VFX in one film may not get any in its sequel.

anyway, here is the origional article from which these thoughts stem:

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=85621