Spiderman VFX breakdown

Here's a VFX breakdown of the high school fight scene from "The Amazing Spiderman" that was being worked on at Sony Imageworks during when I was on "Hotel Transylvania".



Congratulations to all my friends who worked on it, the VFX and animation are amazing! If I didn't have the chance to see some shots pre-rendered, I would never have thought some of these scenes are fully CG. Amazing work!

The Avengers - Animatic Storyboard

Seen The Avengers? It's fun! Here's a storyboard animatic from one of the cool action fight sequences at the end by Jane Wu.

Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story

Interesting and informative talk about Story telling from the director of "Wall-E", "Finding Nemo" and "John Carter".

Harry Potter VFX nominations

Nouche had the awesome experience of working on "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" during her time at Double Negative, in London. As part of the dragon team, she got to animate the Gringott's dragon during the first action sequence.

And both the Dragon and the battle sequence that were done at DNEG are nominated for some major awards!

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture category for the VES awards

http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/10th-annual-ves-awards-nominees

Special Visual Effects category for the BAFTAS - WINNER

http://www.bafta.org/film/awards/

Visual Effects Category for the Oscars

http://oscar.go.com/nominees#visualeffects

Congrats to the entire team who worked on it!

The Hunger Games Trailer

New trailer for The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross. Set for release this year!

Adelaide

Short, intense but awesome experience. Nouche and I went over to Adelaide for less then 2 weeks to work on "The Hunger Games" at Rising Sun Pictures. Everyone was amazingly talented and humble and I hope to work with them all again one day.


Adelaide street photo by Nouche. Next stop Vancouver!

2011

So long 2011, welcome 2012! Saw a lot of movies and listened to a lot of music, and here are the ones I enjoyed the most that were released last year.

Top Movie of 2011
Another Earth


Top Animation movie of 2011
Rio


Top Album of 2011
Darren Hayes "Secret Codes and Battleships" 



What were yours?

John Carter Trailer

Here's the latest trailer for Disney's "John Carter" directed by Andrew Stanton.

Iloura VFX - Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Fwaah, scary little monster. Congrats to my friends who worked on the Guillermo Del Toro produced horror movie "Don't be Afraid of the Dark" down at Iloura in Melbourne, Australia. Here's a cool article that contains a few vfx breakdowns.

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/iloura-vfx-isnt-afraid-of-the-dark/

John Carter

Here's the first teaser trailer for the movie that I'm currently working on "John Carter" directed by Andrew Stanton.



Very much a teaser!