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Aardman Animations

Rigging

On the Kelloggs Multi-Grain Cornflakes advert, rigged roosters & developed feather creation scripts to speed deployment of hundreds of animatable & dynamic feathers

Double Negative

Rigging, Scripting, Character Pipeline Development

For Roland Emerich's 10,000 B.C. blockbuster, rigged the vulture & contributed rigging to the saver-toothed tiger

Shynola

Rigging, Scripting, Modelling, Rendering, Compositing

On The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy responsible for liaising with Hammer & Tongs and overseeing animation production. Animated & rigged stylised characters. Wrote custom RenderMan shaders & pipeline tools

On a Honda Civic advert, rigged the car, modelled set dressings, wrote custom pipeline scripts for render pass management, & composited the shots

On Beck’s E-Pro music video, animated several zombie skeletons

Zombie Flesh Eaters

Rigging, Character Animation, Modelling, Lighting

Modeled & textured for a Gorillaz advert

On Eidos' Hitman game advert, modelled and rigged characters. Textured and lit environments, optimising for speed

Peerless Camera Company

Lead Animator, Scripting

Oversaw several animators on Terry Gilliam’s The Brothers Grimm. Developed an amorphous character rig. Also developed pipeline tools

Double Negative

Lead Character TD, Character TD, Character Animator

For Tomb Raider II, rigged the tiger shark utilising procedural & key-framed animation. Developed numerous Mel scripts to facilitate character set-up and animator work flow. Developed universal character rigs utilising switch-able IK / FK chains with support for both key-framed and motion capture animation.

Cinesite Europe

Technical Director, Character Animator

For James Bond: Die Another Day developed RenderMan shaders to simulate raytracing, subsurface scattering and translucence

Spin Productions

DKP

Guru Studio

GVFX

Spin Entertainment

Simex

Rigging, Character Animation, Modelling, Lighting

Developed character rigs, animated scenes, wrote RenderMan shaders and lit environments for a variety of productions and a variety of companies on various commercial projects

Axis Animations

Rigging & Animation

Rigged and animated the titular character for the Killzone 2 introduction cinematic

One of Us

Rigging & Animation

Pre-visualisation on Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life film

storm studios

Director, VFX & Animation Supervisor

Animation Supervisor on the Troll Hunter film

Director on the Subaru Outback 2010 advert

Co-director & VFX Supervisor on the Beerenberg advert

VFX Supervisor on Farris advert

VFX Supervisor on a creature pipeline development project