Youtube tutorial

I just uploaded my first attempt at a Youtube 3d tutorial. Based on my earlier character tutorial from this blog, I do a walk through in the software with commentary / instructions. view it here.

Storyboards and Pitch Design

Over the years I have made many design storyboards for pitches and projects. Many for TV titles, promos, commercials. I have hand drawn them, digitally collaged, vector art. I did not think to keep so many of them and now lost - I have here a selection that were saved.

Beyti juice storyboard frames 2023

reduced and edited storyboards  for SaaS Insure - corporate video 2017 ( click pic to enlarge )

CocCola Fridge - storyboards 2023

Cairn energy sector corporate visualisation storyboards

Sundance Film Festival Projections

Having worked on the Sundance Institute Center's wall projections in 2013 we were asked again to produce some eye catching content for the 2014 festival. This was the 30th anniversary of the festival so we made every effort to make the graphics as striking as possible. Two simultaneous HD projections flanked either side of a touchscreen wall area and the content was all themed to promote the HP sponsored digital archives and history of the festival dating back to the eighties.

The project was commisioned by Simon Collins of London agency GMR Marketing. I worked closely with Joel Harrison who had been a major contributor to the first 2013 festival project. We also took on great help from designer / animator's Jun Iwakawa and Ian Macklin.

See a movie cut of it here.

CV Updates

just some of the letter 'O' shapes from the many jobs I've worked on. 

Here is an extract from my latest CV update outlining my skill set which I am now offering on a freelance basis.

Specialties: 

- 3d Maya Generalist

- Creative Design
- Compositing

- Motion graphics and 2d animation

- VFX Supervision

- On Set Supervision
- Bidding / Costing VFX Shots and sequences
- Delivering VFX

- Client Facing
- Pre-vis, storyboarding, animatics

- CG enhanced Illustration & photographic retouching
- Team Management & Recruitment
- PR / Marketing

- Business development

- CG business administration and consultation

Software expertise: Maya, Nuke, After Effects, Photoshop, Flash, ToonBoom, Filemaker

full details about me can be seen here.

Science and InfoGraphics

ebook pages

hologram presenter

Google infographics

ergonomics for Bosch products

BP interactive explainer Atlantis PQ

Greater Gabbard Wind Farm stakeholders explainer

Udan Emas - Kris Energy

Some of the  maps from the TV series Globe Trekker ( Lonely Planet / Pilot Productions )

made dozens of product explainers for JML point of sale videos

JML induction cooker

Eurovision Song Contest Promo

We made a fantasy world high end promo for Zlata Ognevich. We were asked to create an immersive animation for Zlata’s entry, Gravity, which was performed at the Eurovision Finals in Malmo, Sweden in May. Zlata came within 20 points of the eventual winner Denmark and she finished third in the end.

I headed the animation department which included all our guys plus some of our favourite freelancers to do some serious compositing, chromakeying, tracking and effects.  I personally composited the pictured scenes as well as making the 3d diamonds.

The video can be seen here on YouTube where it's had 2.5 million hits. 

Fairy Party Invite

Brief to make a party invite for a fantasy themed fancy dress party.

My Parents are Aliens

Job I storyboarded and animated, found in online archive:

Liquid Television Graphics was commissioned by Granada Media children's producer Beryl Richards to produce the titles for new comedy series My Parents Are Aliens. Designed by Tim Varlow, they were made in a 2D 1950s comic-book style, reflecting the show's storyline of two aliens who crash land in Surbiton and become parents to three orphaned children. Animated in Matador and composited in Illusion by Olly Tyler and Thorston Rienth, the new series debuts on Tuesday (9 November) on CITV.

Broadcast Magazine

5 November, 1999