Here are some progress shots of my new showreel containing 3D animation, motion graphics, robots, holograms, a bit of awesome thrown in too hopefully!
I wanted to do something a bit different with this showreel, creating a story around my work instead of the usual dull title indent. This should be complete in the next 1-2 weeks and here’s a few progress shots.

For some of my work from 2009/10 take a look below. My main software experience is Cinema4D, aftereffects, 3dsmax, Modo, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator.

This showreel uses a flash based player, if you can’t see any video then you haven’t got flash installed (and I recommend you do) go here.

What was interesting was every element had to be animated, even if it was slightly “jiggling” so as to promote the 3D holographic effect. Much fun!

The pen was created and animated in Modo along with aftereffects for comping the elements together.

Here is the an early example of the animation using the Dreamoc unit :

This is a car configurator, using BMW’s Vision Efficient Dynamic sports car and some HTML 5 wizardry. It has been used as a showcase by Microsoft for their Internet Explorer 9 launch and you can view the website here (but it is advised to use IE9 for best performance).

I was responsible for the modelling, texturing and rendering of the 3D model using HDRI lighting to match the car with the background. Weapons of choice were 3dsmax and Vray to produce the animations.

For more information check out this blog post by EMC Consulting.

For those who do not want to install IE9 (or can’t as they use Mac’s or windows XP) I have uploaded a video of the website in action.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ofNRDF-ng

3D Illustration of the infamous terror created by H.P. Lovecraft.

“They were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. They had shape…but that shape was not made of matter. When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live. But although They no longer lived, They would never really die. They all lay in stone houses in Their great city of R’lyeh, preserved by the spells of mighty Cthulhu for a glorious resurrection when the stars and the earth might once more be ready for Them.”

This is a stylistic exploration of the Cthulhu myth created by H.P. Lovecraft. Also, I absolutely love octopuses and wanted to see how organic shapes would look given the hard rigid 3D treatment. I am currently getting some T-shirt designs together and some real nice Giclee prints created for posters, so watch this space!

Here are some more stylistic examples:

The mobile market and especially the smart phones such as the Windows Phone 7, iphone etc is a very exciting growth area, with the technology taking huge leaps with each generation. I look forward to pushing the 3D capabilities in future projects.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG0GX9yRNec

For more info take a look at Red Badgers blog.

A 3D & WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) POC for Tesco, exploring the idea of grocery shopping with cutting edge technology.

The video below is from the Microsoft PDC 2008 and the app was used to demonstrate shopping in the future and the possibilities it gives (I certainly want one!). Fast forward to 58 seconds to see the 3D in action. I used 3dsmax for the 3D modelling and some basic coding in xaml using Microsoft Blend.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3tzcTIOqc8

Smart metering was a project to help energy clients such as British Gas, EDF to engage customers in innovative ways and encourage them to save energy as per new government guidelines. The 3D house is customisable to suit users needs and empowers them to take responsibility over their energy use.

I built the house in 3D along with various flythrough animations. This was then integrated into a WPF desktop application and tested on a Dell touchscreen tablet PC.

A screen capture of the app in use can be viewed here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9M9XgwD66U

I was part of a 3D team delivering a series of visualisations for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth games. These were then used to help promote the games far in advance.

3dsmax, Photoshop & Vray were used to deliver the images. The work often involved modelling stadium equipment and part’s of the stadium structure itself along with comping the 3D with HDRI photography.

Go here to see more images from their official website.

An animated visualisation for Mclaren to explain how data is communicated between the car, HQ in Woking England and the on track team. This was used at the Worldwide Partner Conference for Microsoft in 2008 as presentation material.

I had a lot of fun with this project as we wanted a “tronesque” look to the whole presentation as the main message was about data and how it is transported around. It was all created using 3dsmax , Vray & Aftereffects.

The full presentation can be found below:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJsuHKEYnPY

This project for T-mobile was designed to help them explore the idea of bringing their customers together via mobile. Mashing up 3d virtual worlds, augmented realities, enabling users to share life experiences through digital channels. I created all the assets, 3D, design etc and had a lot of fun as I’m a sucker for cell shading rendering treatments! 3dsmax, vray and photoshop were used.