Have Gun, Will Travel.

I dont particularly want to talk about politics on this blog but I couldnt really let it go today without mentioning that today the USA elected its 44th presient, Barack Obama.

Obama’s victory speech in full:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/7710079.stm

See at the top right hand side! A list of all major projects I have been lucky enough to have had a hand in.

Obvious to some but still a good point to make about cameras in the real world to the CG world.I’ve been involved with some previs on a coming project. its all very very early but the storyboards havent been done yet and actually right now I dont think the script has been written either. This means we’ve really got the chance to do pretty much whatever we like with regards to making up what a few scenes are going to look like and then the director can take from this what he likes.

I had best point out at this stage previs is a part of viual effects that really blocks out what the action is likely to do on the computer. Much like a storyboard but we now have the luxury of being able to, reletively quickly, layout your scene and even position lighting rigs and cameras to see if they will work together weither before filming actually takes place or to run cocurrently with it.

There was an interesting point the other day while we were reviewing recent work and the amount of thought that needs to go on in making sure our made up previs cameras can actually do the movement requitred in the real world. This may sound obvious but we were looking at a possible crane shot moving from ground level up to above the line of houses and it struck our supervisor that while the shot may have worked in CG would be near enough impossible to rercreate in the real world. Mostly in this case the speed in which the camera needed to be repositioned, pan and zoom all the while the action was happening.If you are planning camera moves to either emulate the real world or layout a possible scene for shoot then this is probably worth learning.

So much to my surprise people are reading this other then myself?! You come from all over the world so just who are you and how did you find this? I can only assume you were looking for something vastly more interesting to do with a western TV show or something of that nature. Or maybe a reference to Hellboy or Harry Potter. Either way I guess the responsibility mounts to write something interesting. Its quite fun to see the hit counter mount up.

I’ll now try to update this with a more conscientious effort to dazzle and excite. Dont be shy either, put in some comments and tell me who you are and quite how you found this!

…and now a hit counter at the bottom of the page now too…

A map of countries people have been watching this blog from. I’ll keep this at the end of the page. I think it would be intesterting to keep a track of:

At last done it, a good record of things I’ve worked on over the past 4 years.
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Ok. So my showreel was here but due to recent showreel policies I’ve had to remove it from my personal website due to copyright laws on the films in it.
Its a bit of a shame that I cant have it online but I can uinderstand the reasons behind it. You’ll just have to request it if you want to watch it in all its glory.
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More really large photos. This time of the Hadron Collider that didn’t swallow us all up into a black hole when it was switched on last week. More pictures here.

Got sent at work a great link to some photos of London from above at night time. Here they all are.