This is the first animation test for a potential new short film, ‘The Unknown Soldier’.
I used some stock mo-cap of a skipping rope cycle, and after a bit of cleanup with the feet contacting the floor I parented the rope handles to the hands and then hand animated the rope rotating around the body.
Lighting was added using the hdri, a directional light from the main window and 3 point lights […]
This is the first test render from Nuke and it’s already looking great with very little additional compositing.
Rendered from Maya using Arnold Renderer. Composited in Nuke.
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I downloaded some stock mocap of various actions and then attached it to the model to test and see how the character would react.
There was a lot of cleanup for some of the test shots I want to use but overall it was great to see it working and it was better than I could ever do myself as an animator.
The character rig was the only discipline I didn’t do. This […]
This is the look development for the soldier character from the short film ‘The Unknown Soldier’.
Modelled in Maya. UV in Headus. Textures in Photoshop. Lighting and Rendered using Arnold and Maya.
‘Everyone asks questions. Few sacrifice everything for the answers.’
Two people trapped in an Orwellian world find a symbol of hope that the authorities will do anything to keep secret.
Based on the book ‘Pollen’ by A.D Lamb, I wanted to introduce and get the audience to ask questions about the tense world, themes and characters in this ‘proof of concept’ short film.
After reading the book, I quickly put together a script […]
I was asked to produce, direct and animate this 30″ TV sting for National Express via Picture Production Company.
I also produced a number of print adverts using the imagery from the commercial for the campaign.