• Winter 2012 Showreel

    Winter 2012 Showreel

    I just finished up my latest showreel.  Please have a look:   Shot breakdown: Seaside 3D scene – a 3D seaside environment (all CGI – wahey!) PBS NEWSHOUR Opening Sequence Fiver TV Branding Package – designed by Foreign Office Design, animated by me. The End of Science – 3D dynamics test ICE, TV mini-series Map from History of Ancient Britain [...]

  • 3D Camera Mapping with Archive Photos

    3D Camera Mapping with Archive Photos

    I made this test animation while working at Foreign Office Design.  The idea was to see how much movement we could add to a still photograph – in this case a famous archive image from Scott’s doomed Antarctic Expedition. The process involved creating a 3D model of the ice cliffs and the ice and sea around them.  The image is [...]

  • History of Ancient Britain – Orkney Special

    History of Ancient Britain – Orkney Special

    For information on the on-going archaeological dig at the Ness of Brodgar, have a look at the site blog – fascinating!   Keen-eyed viewers of the original History of Ancient Britain series on BBC Two may have noticed something missing. While covering Orkney’s colossal neolithic stone circles, the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness, presenter Neil Oliver made [...]

  • History of Ancient Britain – Concept Work

    History of Ancient Britain – Concept Work

    I thought I’d share some of the design work I did leading up to production on the History of Ancient Britain Orkney Special as well of some of the tools and techniques I used.  (For a full description of the show, please see the next post.) In early discussions about the show, the producers and I talked about ways we [...]

  • Liberty Human Rights – ID Card campaign

    Liberty Human Rights – ID Card campaign

    A few years ago, I got a letter from the UK Inland Revenue apologising for losing my families private details.   I did a little investigating and found out that this had happened to over 30 million private documents which had been left on a memory stick in a pub car park.  Coincidentally the UK was preparing a new ID [...]

  • PBS NEWSHOUR rebrand

    PBS NEWSHOUR rebrand

    In the spring of 2009, longtime TV news anchor Jim Lehrer announced he would be leaving the NEWSHOUR with Jim Lehrer.  In his place a new ensemble of anchor men and women would be taking turns fronting the show.  In turn the show would drop the name Jim Lehrer and simply become PBS NEWSHOUR. I was asked to produce a [...]

 

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/ January 6, 2012 3:51 pm

Winter 2012 Showreel

I just finished up my latest showreel.  Please have a look:   Shot breakdown: Seaside 3D scene – a 3D seaside environment (all CGI – wahey!) PBS NEWSHOUR Opening Sequence [...]

/ January 6, 2012 3:06 pm

3D Camera Mapping with Archive Photos

I made this test animation while working at Foreign Office Design.  The idea was to see how much movement we could add to a still photograph – in this case [...]

/ January 2, 2012 6:03 pm

Amnesty International – I have a name

A few years ago I had an idea for an Amnesty International TV ad.  The concept was that as individuals we have a powerful weapon: our signature.  To illustrate this [...]

/ December 23, 2011 1:58 pm

History of Ancient Britain – Orkney Special

For information on the on-going archaeological dig at the Ness of Brodgar, have a look at the site blog – fascinating!   Keen-eyed viewers of the original History of Ancient [...]

/ December 23, 2011 1:35 am

History of Ancient Britain – Concept Work

I thought I’d share some of the design work I did leading up to production on the History of Ancient Britain Orkney Special as well of some of the tools [...]

/ December 20, 2011 5:16 pm

Liberty Human Rights – ID Card campaign

A few years ago, I got a letter from the UK Inland Revenue apologising for losing my families private details.   I did a little investigating and found out that [...]

/ December 20, 2011 4:51 pm

PBS NEWSHOUR rebrand

In the spring of 2009, longtime TV news anchor Jim Lehrer announced he would be leaving the NEWSHOUR with Jim Lehrer.  In his place a new ensemble of anchor men [...]