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:

the tutorials take off!

Well its been about 2 months now, since i launched the head modelling tutorial series, and its been a big sucess!

there has been a mix of websites re-directing to the tutorials and websites who are hosting it themselves, you can see the offical tutorials now on 3 siteS (more to follow) :

3DTUTS

3DTOTAL

and free3dtutorials.com

been getting pretty good feedback from it! so i have plans for 2 future tutorial series:

1) unwrapping the head

2) maya modelling for apsolute beginners!

anyway, stay posted!

Student Special!

For today, I thought I would show some of the showreels, of the class I recently taught over easter! these guys have had one years worth of tuition at the Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark! Some very talented individuals, im looking forward to seeing what they produce next year!

anyway, here is small collection of some of their works:

Character Project CGA09 from Anne-Sofie Tholander on Vimeo.

CG Showreel, Dennis Jensen 2010 - The Animation Workshop from Dennis Jensen on Vimeo.

Monster Father: Turnaround from Paolo Giandoso on Vimeo.

character showreel from Ole Christian Løken on Vimeo.

Design and modelling: The Vampirate - Nikki Starostka from Nikki Starostka on Vimeo.

apologies to those students i didnt include, i promise i will showcase your work, next time!

;)

THURSDAY SHOWCASE

Why is it, that star wars games seem so much more interesting than the new films? instantly this star wars cinematic for 'The old Repubilc' seems to breath new life into what became a rather cliched series




if the game play is anywhere near as good as this cinematic, i am snapping this game up!

Buy an action figure of my work!

Just thought I would post some pictures of the Harvey Dent figure from 'The Dark Knight'. I bought one of these when it came out, and its awesome! They captured the detail of his scaring really well, and its fully posable and comes with a load of props too! well worth it!

Prince of Persia posters!

Some visual goodness for you!

I normally Buy one poster for every film i have worked on, and get the crew to sign it.... wonder which one I should get for Prince of Persia?

Prince of Persia in cinema's now!

Hey everyone, just a head ups to let you know that Prince of Persia is now out in Cinemas. I worked on this film for about 6 weeks last may. It was the first film i worked on with Cinesite, and a nice, enjoyable job. My role was primarily working on one specific shot where King Sharaman gets poisoned, its a high detail visual effect, that i think turned out really well, hopefully should get some shots of it up on the website later in the year, for now you will have to make do with some of the officially released shots!

anyway, check out the film and look out for King Sharamans poisoning scene! modelling, texturing and sculting work!

Adam

TUESDAY SHOWCASE

check this shit out! awesome! gaiking movie!

video tutorials

Hey guys, well im back from a month teaching at the animation workshop in Viborg, Denmark, and while i was out there, i decided to record some tutorials for my students! luckily for everyone else, i have popped them on vimeo too, for everyone to see!

here

Adam Dewhirst tutorial - Facial modelling from adam dewhirst on Vimeo.

Adam Dewhirst tutorial - Head modelling from adam dewhirst on Vimeo.

Adam Dewhirst tutorial - Eye and mouth Modelling from adam dewhirst on Vimeo.

Adam Dewhirst Tutorial - Ear modelling from adam dewhirst on Vimeo.

Adam Dewhirst Tutorial - finishing the head - part 5 from adam dewhirst on Vimeo.

Adam Dewhirst Tutorial - Head modelling part 6: Props from adam dewhirst on Vimeo.

Adam Dewhirst Tutorial - Hair modelling - part 7 from adam dewhirst on Vimeo.

Adam Dewhirst Tutorial - Head modelling - part 8 - clean up from adam dewhirst on Vimeo.

Twitter

you can now follow me on twitter too!

http://twitter.com/intelligentape

hurrah!

some renders of WIP

some more renders of my silly little lionman character im modelling for the class I teach in Denmark, have uv-ed it now, made some slight tweaks to the model, and started to test out some fur sim on his beard.

here are some renders plus the origional concept! (not mine)

WIP

a little something I made this week in denmark to teach character modelling to a new class at the animation workshop (more on this later)

sneaky peak.

some pics from outside the Clash screening!

CLASH OF THE .....youtube?

check out you tube today....some very subtle advertising for CLASH OF THE TITANS!

my teaching profile

Morning all! Ive just had a profile of me uploaded to the animation workshops site. Ther animation Workshop is a school in Denmark that specialised in hand drawn animation and Computer Generated animaition, i taught there for four weeks last year and in two weeks time im heading back to teach a similar module!

you can check out my profile

HERE

MONDAY SHOWCASE #4

Finally remember to do this on a monday!

This is the new teaser for Dreamworks 'Megamind' judging by the vocal talents they have for this film it should be good, but i cant gage too much from the actual trailer, other than it being a vehicle for Will Ferrell.

anyway, here it is:

scorpion BATTLE!

Well, somewhat suprisingly, they (Warner Brothers) have released an exclusive clip of the scorpion battle in Clash of the Titans, its jsut short of 1 minute, and pretty much sums up the work i have been doing for the last 8 months! looks great!

here is the link:

http://www.traileraddict.com/clip/clash-of-the-titans/scorpioch-battle

Clash of the Action Figures

Just released, the new Clash of the Titans, action figures!

currently only:

Persius
Persius - with dirt (im assuming this is battle damage persius!)

I picked up mine (battle damage Persius) from forbidden planet today, looks awesome, lets hope they make a scorpion too!

another WEDNESDAY SHOWCASE

Well here we have another Wednesday showcase, as once again i prove to be inept at getting this out on a monday! lol.

found the link to this on 3D total, and I really like it, the music isnt to my taste, but the overall quality of production is very high, and I love the miscleanious nature of it. Nice post production work too (im assuming in after effects).

instrumental video nine from beeple on Vimeo.

finished Bust

This is a finished model (mainly) I've been working on for a friend, I may still tweak the hair in places, its not quite right, and to be honest I didn't want to have to sculpt the stubble, but overall its good enough for the job its for. When I get some more Free time I will probably wrap it up.

I built it during downtime at work, so will have to re-assemble it at home using the 'sculpt using displacement map feature' but that shouldnt be a problem

will post the finished product that the image is being used for when it becomes available to the public!



click on the image for the high res!

Work Desk

Ever wonder what covers the desk of a VFX artist?

I shall tell you! TOYS!!!

WEDNESDAY SHOWCASE

although this sort of defeats the point of me doing a 'monday showcase', saw this today, and thought it was worth posting:

check it out:

Samurai from Phil Shoebottom on Vimeo.

MONDAY SHOWCASE #3

continuing the monday showcase theme, here is my thirs week's submission, found this on vimeo, whilst doing a casual bit of surfing... i think i was attracted to it, because of the polar bears, and having worked on 'the golden compass' i now have an unhealthy obsession with all things polar!

check it out!, cool, but odd

Polar Bear from Plane Stupid on Vimeo.

some WIP

I posted a few pics of this sculpt before, heres something a bit more specific. Cant go into details about the project, but its a photoreal sculpt of a friend of mine, i think ive got the face down, but sculpting hair as geometry is difficult, it just wasnt ment to be done!



still... it looks nice in chocolate!

New Clash of the Titans Trailer!

just released, the new international trailer for clash of the titans!

MONDAY SHOWCASE #2

another monday, another 'monday showcase'. this is a short animation/experiment in branding by capacity.

its just...........lovely!

great style and animation, like a 3d anime. really beautiful! how great would this look as a whole film?

Upgrade + Mobilize from Benji Thiem on Vimeo.

chocolate or jelly bean?

messing around with a sculpt in mudbox, (more on this project later).

2 hours at work

want to see what two hours in vfx looks like from the point of view of my mousemat?

WELL HERE YOU GO! using the iphone timelapse app!

2 hours at work from adam dewhirst on Vimeo.

MONDAY SHOWCASE

Hello, welcome to a new feature on intelligentape.co.uk, a weekly posting af good quality and new 3D work!

I'm startings off with a bang! the trailer for the new game: TRANSFOREMRS: war for cybertron, currently showing on youtube, vimeo and gametrailers.com. (sure you can find it elsewhere too!)

Im not going to comment on the game, or when its released, or what console its one, just the graphics! and I really like them, Its styled somewhat closer to the cartoon series than the films, i particularly like bumblebee's design. nice pasing to the trailer, nice camera work and overall good design. I have to admit however, that the tag line 'one shall stand, one shall fall' is very tired! and somewhat cliche!

Transformers - war for cybertron from ayekt on Vimeo.