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I arrived into Mumbai after a 9 hour flight from London Heathrow. It was about 40 C and very humid. I was lucky enough to have a contact here, Simran, who’s family welcomed me into their home. I had explicit instructions on how to get a taxi form the airport to their apartment in […]

A trailer, with some of my work shown, is out for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. There are two very quick shots. The first is of the centaurs running silhouetted towards the camera. I did a lot of shader writing for the centaurs. Second is a shot of Dumbledoor and Fawkes the Phoenix bursting into flames. I did the look development, shader writing, feather groom, lighting, and other general technical director work on it. See the trailer here.

I’ve been really busy, hence the lack of posts. I spent a half week in a chilled out town around a holy lake called Pushkar. It was pretty touristy, but there were plenty of ways to escape that element. It was a big hippy hang out, but I didn’t have the time to really immerse […]