Hello everyone, buoyed on from the success of VFX and CG Survival Guide for Filmmakers and Producers (Kindle – http://amzn.to/WTZByQ) I’ve been approached by independent film producers to provide VFX for their projects. The requests have come from far and wide, some asking for quotes others asking me to carry out the work. This post is about […]
How to write a book and launch it – Launching VFX book to number 1 best-seller spot on Amazon
This post is about how to write a book and launch it to number 1 bestseller list on Amazon. So the past month I have been really busy launching my book ‘VFX and CG for Producers and Filmmakers’ on Amazon. Paperback US and International -> http://www.amazon.com/Survival-Producers-Filmmakers-Guides-Volume/dp/1484021541/ UK -> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Survival-Producers-Filmmakers-Guides-Volume/dp/1484021541/ Austria and Germany -> http://www.amazon.de/Survival-Producers-Filmmakers-Guides-Volume/dp/1484021541/ France -> http://www.amazon.fr/Survival-Producers-Filmmakers-Guides-Volume/dp/1484021541/ Italy -> http://www.amazon.it/Survival-Producers-Filmmakers-Guides-Volume/dp/1484021541/ […]
How to set up your own VFX Studio – business considerations
In this post I am going to guide you through the process of how to set yourself up as a your very own VFX studio. In practice this post can relate to setting yourself up as your own business, whatever industry you are in, but seeing as this a VFX oriented site I’ll use the […]
London 2012 – Maya Cloth, nParticles and lighting
I recently finished a job working on Olympics presentations for the London 2012 games. I used Maya for the lighting and effects for the various 2012 logos. I lit these 2012 stings that appear on the giant jumbtrons. Any time any event is about to take place the 2012 logo will fly right on screen and […]
Naiad R&D
Naiad is an extremely powerful tool, here I’m going to share with you quick and easy ways to get started in Naiad fluid simulation. Naiad test 01 – firing liquid against a wall Naiad test 01 from Farhan Qureshi on Vimeo. Naiad test 02 – a block crashing into liquid Naiad Test 02: Block crashing […]
Jelly on a plate served by Houdini FX
I was playing around with the new fluid solver in Houdini FX. I came up with a pretty cool jelly animation by adjusting the viscosity settings and collision tolerances. Here’s the basic setup and settings The basic set up Geo: basic box shape with a smoothing operation to create the shape cutter geo – which […]
Pirates! Aardman Animation Studios set tour
Here is a cool video from David Sztypuljak from HeyUGuys when he came to visit us at the Aardman animation studios set of Pirates! He’s done a pretty cool commentary too. Hopefully it’ll show why it’s so cool to work here. Working at Aardman Animation Studios was one of the most amazing experiences I’ve had […]
Aardman Pirates! trailer number two
The new Aardman Pirates! trailer is out. Before I joined Aardman I met the former CTO at a networking event, I was talking to him about working at Aardman and mentioned it is the best animation company in the country. He looked steely back at me and said ‘No, it’s the best animation company in […]
Just Pitch It – how to sell your screenplay
source: http://storyassistant.com/2009/02/ Been a bit quiet on the blogging front for a while – apologies, it’s not been for the lack of wanting to blog but moreover that I’ve had not one, not two, but three pitches to deliver. I’m not at liberty to say to whom I’m pitching to, suffice to say that they […]
Pirates! animation trailer ahead
Aghast ye landlubbers (well you’d be disappointed if we didn’t start with some pirate speak), here is the animation project that I’m currently working on. I’ve moved up to Bristol to work at Aardman Animation on their latest project Pirates! I’m sure you all know about Aardman’s rich animation history, it’s a real honour to […]
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