SQUIDS 🛴
Scooters. Family. Summertime. Wowza 9000.
An absolute joy to help bring this debut feature film to its final look through clear skies, digital decals and fishing wire removals.
It was a real treat to see this film play at Lido during the Fantastic Film Festival, and finally pay off all the hard work of director @ryanzorzut and his incredible crew.
All VFX done in Nuke. This one’s not so much a breakdown and more of a showcase - the brief was fairly straightforward and my role was mostly cleanup to help replace overcast skies (it was summertime after all), replace logos and a few fun shots to help sell punchlines that I won’t spoil here!
KEEPSAKE 🔥 🫠
@dugongjr • ft @georgikay
Another incredible project to work on with Director @jaydandeoliveira and DOP @r.yanbell - we built the Good Time Hotel in Dugongs last video Patience, and now back at the fire fx to burn it all down.
Final Grades done by @teddeacey
For the face warps the brief was to mimic the 1999 PlayStation ‘Mental Wealth’ ad, and we found this melting effect along the way - it was a neat experiment for me to discover KeenTools and its powerful face mesh tracking. Deformations were done with a sculpted version of the mesh and blend shapes.
The CG horse was a tricky beast - we wanted a camera move that would only really work in CG, we settled on finding an existing asset and I added the groom to it in blender.
WESTERNERS
A few breakdowns of the VFX for a new series: Westerners, produced by @haventyoudonewellproductions
You can watch Westerners on @abciview
• Fire and smoke FX created in EmberGen
• Composited in Nuke
🎳 UNCUT - RICEWINE - VFX 🎳
Bowling for RICEWINE - Quick Look at two VFX shots we decided to tackle in cg for the music video ‘Uncut’.
* hope you didn’t notice they weren’t real
Built and rendered in #blender using Jackimorphic camera pack to match some fantastic anamorphic cinematography from @r.yanbell
DESCENT 🫧
I hopped on late in post-prod to assist the VFX team on Descent - a fantastic web series created by @ellallawry@millieholten@madisav & produced by @haventyoudonewellproductions
Working closely again with director @liaminternetprince was a treat as we figured out a treatment for plunging these submarine miniatures they had shot into the depths, as well as creating an auditorium of Eels from a series of eel puppet takes.
You can watch the full series on YouTube: Grouse House
🔥 THE EMU WAR 🔥
Working closely with director @jaymorrissey - I had the pleasure to bring some heat to the comedy feature film ‘The Emu War’ last year - which is now available on dvd and on youtube!
Whilst other talented artists tackled the rest of the film, my job was to fire up the Emu Hut massacre scene using blender + emberGen to sim the flamethrower and nuke to composite.
I also worked on some transitional shots into the Emu Queens lair (last slide) - within which Jay gave me creative freedom to design the shots using an existing cave asset that I updated.
No emus were harmed in the making of this film… just my janky lil background emu models
AORA - @dol0rres & @jupita
(Swipe through!)
Directed by @jaydandeoliveira - this project last year was a blast 💥 to work on, really gave my GPU a workout (and convinced me to upgrade it). Although the explosions were a headache the post creative process between Jaydan, @liamjames.editor and I was a lot of fun 🙌
This VFX was all done in Blender, EmberGen and Nuke but I think perhaps Unreal Engine might have handled the environment better, so I’d like to experiment with that next.
“He‘s just gone out to grab a Nuka Cola…”
The Fallout show was a gem and I binged it in a couple days - and ever since then I’ve been working to bring this little scene to life!
Not a sponsored post, I wanted to make a tribute to the show and the games that I grew up playing throughout High School and University.
If you haven’t seen it yet - give it a go! It’s one of those rare video game adaptations that have been done marvellously well.
•Pip-Boy, Nuka Cola machine/bottle and debris scans from sketch fab, all other assets modelled and textured by moi
•Animated in Blender and After Effects #fallout #amazonprime #falloutseries #wasteland #brotherhoodofsteel #nukacola #pipboy #vaultboy #blender3d #aftereffects
HOME - VFX REEL
It’s Spooky Season 👻 🎃 - so it’s the perfect time to share some work I did earlier this year with the hilarious @hotdepartment + @alex.hines___ and the talented @liaminternetprince (+ many other fantastic creatives who made this)
I heavily leaned on @jangafx EmberGen for all the smoke sims on this project. Blender and Nuke also used as trusty tools.
🎵 Spooky, Scary Skeletons - Undead Tombstone Remix (Andrew Gold)
