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I’ve spent the last 12 months or so working on Avatar as a Lead Technical Director. It’s been an epic project with an exhausting amount of detail which borders on virtual reality.

Here’s the trailer if you haven’t seen it:
http://www.avatarmovie.com/

I’ve been stuck at home for the last week or so due to a shoulder injury, so I threw this together to keep myself busy. It’s my old commute in London as seen from the handlebars from my bicycle. The song is appropriately “Hold Tight London” by the Chemical Brothers.

I’ve been working on The Day the Earth Stood Still for the last month or so. I can’t really describe what I’m doing until the movie comes out, but it’s nearly done and I think the trailer looks pretty good. Keeps me motivated on ridiculous overtime.

Check out the trailer here on apple.

Here’s a 7min clip.

We finished up working on Prince Caspian a few weeks ago. I was the initial shader writer and lighting lead on the Rivergod, who then left for Germany (a long story that I can’t really talk about on the web). I ran a few Aslan shots after, which was a nice break from the [...]

After 5 weeks in India, I visited a lot of places and took a lot of photos. So here’s a quick list of the posts that I made which document the trip:

• Mumbai
  Elephanta
  Daman
  Champaner
  Amdavad
  Udaipur
  Jodhpur
  Pushkar
  Jaipur
  Delhi
  Agra
  Amritsar
  McLeod Ganj
  Dharamkot & Triund
  Dalohousi & the trip back to Delhi

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.