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Crystalline Sound – Soho

This was a concept by director Bison who wanted to take raw audio recordings from the streets of Soho in London, traditionally seen as a somewhat dirty place, and create something clean and beautiful with them. I used the audio to drive a system of growing crystals, which was then projected on the window of 140 Wardour Street.

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Dyson

This sample of packshots involved working directly with Dyson to show various technical aspects of their products. I took original CAD data, optimized, animated, shaded and lit it. I used projected transparency to create cross sections (plus some trickery in the comp to prevent the components being thin-walled). For the bristles on the brush I used XGen with animated deformers on the longer hairs for a highly controllable alternative to dynamics. I used Nuke for the grade and additional optical effects.

The materials went through many iterations to make sure the look and feel was just right, with final sign off from Sir James Dyson.

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O2 – Goslings

  • Director
  • Si & Ad
  • Creative Agency
  • VCCP
  • Production Company
  • Academy

For the goslings I did the dynamics for their flesh jiggle. Since we had five goslings and a fair number of shots with many animation revisions I wanted something that would run quickly. I ended writing a simple jiggle deformer in Houdini's VEX that performed a fair bit faster than other options.

 

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Smythson – Journey To The Wild Side

  • Director
  • Sophie Edelstein
  • Creative Agency
  • Smythson of Bond Street
  • Production Company
  • RSA Films

This was for an online campaign and to be shown throughout the Smythson in-store displays. I was responsible for:

  • Elephant - Lead, look dev, dynamics
  • Giraffe - Lead, look dev, dynamics, groom
  • Tiger - Dynamics

I used a combination of Houdini (dynamics), Mari (texturing), and Maya (fur (XGen and Yeti), lighting and rendering (Arnold)).