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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.

I worked on the wolf transitions and some set extensions on this film. I hear it’s due out in January 2007. Check out the trailer here. If you watch closely there are a couple wolf transition effects shots near the end. Me and a few other folks at Framestore CFC did all the really classy pink and blue glowing in addition to some set extension, eye glows and other cleanup work.

Megan Campbell asked me to take some semi-professional photos of her for her portfolio. She’s a dancer and performs with fire, on stilts, and if you’re lucky, will grind metal off her crotch. The photos are pretty self-explanitory. I took them all with my Nikon D50 and polished them up in Photoshop. Check them out here.

Combustion Ground Rules is published! I co-authored this book with Todd Peterson. It covers beginner to intermediate level compositing using Discreet’s Combustion. If you’re curious about compositing or Combustion, go buy it!