Sydney to Vancouver

Flying out to Vancouver tomorrow to work at Sony Pictures Imageworks on Genndy Tartakovsky's "Hotel Transylvania". I'm super excited and looking forward to being a giant sponge around all the amazingly talented animators that are there.

Farewell Sydney, be back soon!

John Carter Superbowl

John Carter Extended Superbowl Spot!

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!

Summer Wars

If you haven't seen this great anime movie from 2009, directed by Mamoru Hosoda (who also directed The Girl who leapt through time), check it out! A unique crazy story, amazing animation, character design and heaps of fun. It was better then 99% of the movies I watched last year.

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?