Author: raistlinuk

Here’s a great article on artofvfx discussing ILM londons work on the 10,000 frame opening shot of Life. I was the paint lead on on this sequence. There was a lot of wires.

A couple of great vids on Industrial Light & Magic’s time warp action sequence at the end of Dr Strange, which was my first lead artist credit. There’s some fantastic breakdowns in here. 

Here’s a link to a great article interviewing Scott Pritchard (one of our 2d supervisors at ILM London) about some of our shots on The Force Awakens – there’s a couple I worked on in there. Including the cover shot of Maz!

 

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/post/140802707351/ilm-reveals-star-wars-the-force-awakens-most

Huzzah ILM won the visual effects BAFTA! So proud to have been a part of this film. 

http://bafta-film.tumblr.com/post/139309737771/special-visual-effects-winner-star-wars-the

Im so proud to have had the opportunity to be a part of this fantastic film! Here’s an article from Wired, with Mike Seymour on some of ILM’s VFX behind the film. There’s a few shots I worked on in here as well!

I’ve just been to see Paddington and had a wonderful surprise at the end (and no not that the movie was good – it always was going to be!), my first film credit! Listed as a Digital Artist at Double Negative. As this was done whilst I was an intern from the CG student awards competition in very grateful that Dneg had space for me in there 🙂

I decided to do some matte painting using some of the pics I took whilst in Ireland. Here’s one done using one of the pics taken whilst on the coast. It’s quite similar to the last one I did, and is using the same castle (I need to get some more decent pics of castles!), but I’m quite happy with it so far.

I went on a short holiday to Ireland during October, with the idea of seeing Dublin for the first time as well as visiting a number of the Game of Thrones filming locations along the coastal route. This was a great opportunity to test out my new Canon 10-22 wide angle lens out on my trusty 600d! I’m enjoying getting into photography at the moment, and although I have to take about 100 photos to get 1 good one, I’m definitely improving slowly. Here’s a few of my fav:

I got a great shout out from CG Student Awards after winning an internship at Double Negative through them this Summer! Very appreciative!

Well its been a while since my last update due to a very hectic start to year 3 at Bournemouth University. I have assignments coming at me from all directions it seems, and here’s the first of them.This has probably been my favorite project to undertake so far at Bournemouth, as it had a great balance between artistic abilities and technical know how, as well as being our first Photoshop based project and was taught by the excellent Adam Redford and Melania Foderitto. The brief was to create a photo-real matte painting in Photoshop and then bring it to life using camera projection in Nuke.

After about 11 aborted attempts to emulate overly epic matte paintings such as those by David Luong and Damien Mace and create a piece from scratch, I decided to learn to walk before running and work from a photographed backplate. After 2 trips to Winchester, 1 to Christchurch and 1 to Lyndurst I found Corfe Castle, a fantastic location to photograph a plate with my new Cannon 600D. Going in half term was perhaps not the best idea as the place was swarming with people and screaming children, but I managed to take enough decent photographs to work with. I decided to use the village square as the composition rather than the Castle itself  (which I added to the hill in the background) as it was the only really open area within the village (one of the draw backs of historical towns). I set to painting out various people, cars, and anything which would seem out of place for a period piece.

Here you can see the completed matte painting:

And here you can see the original photograph:

And here is the video of the projection, including a quick breakdown of the patching and projection process: