I have now finished up as animation director for 11 episodes of 100% Wolf Season 2. What an exciting ride it’s been! Massive kudos to everyone involved as we smashed out a huge amount of high-quality animation in a very short time. I’m very proud of what we achieved. It should be airing on ABC TV sometime in 2023.
It was such a joy working with the brilliant director, Robertino Zambrano, animating the Billie Eilish video clip for ‘Not My Responsibility.’ This was part of her Disney Special called ‘Happier Than Ever: A love letter to Los Angeles’.
I had the great pleasure of leading the animation of the Rat for David Walliam’s Ratburger. The work was done at Lola Post in London. It was such a fun project. Making a Rat dance to Beyonce? It doesn’t get any better than that. It aired on Sky on Dec 24 2017.
Here is Lola’s break down of some of the scenes.
Lola Ratburger Breakdown
I’m back at Jellyfish pictures animating Dinosaurs for a new documentary for ITV. This one is about Dinosaurs in the UK. It’s a ton of fun, I’m having a ball. Raaaar!
Here is a 2 minute showreel of my dinosaur animation. This was done for Jellyfish Pictures. The doco is Planet Dinosaur for the BBC. Apologies to Run DMC for using their music.
I’ve just finished a really fun gig making and animating CG Jellyfish and a Tomopteris (a what?) for a new British film called Pressure, directed by Ron Scalpello.
The CG is all being done by Pearl DME under the steady guidance of Will Rockall. A great bunch of guys to work with.
I was called in to model, shade, rig and animate realistic looking jellyfish for several shots. I used Softimage xsi and made the tentacles with Syflex ICE curves.
I also made a tomopteris, which is a many legged deep sea critter that looks like a swimming centipede. Rigging all those legs to be floppy and swimmy was a bit of a nightmare, again using Softimage, but the finished creature looks pretty good.
I’d love to put up some pictures of it, but you’ll have to wait till the film comes out in a couple of months time.
After finishing up on Chatter Zoo I went on to modelling, rigging and animating more dinosaurs. This time it is for the iPad game to go with the new Walking With Dinosaurs movie. Unlike the original doco this is a cutsy vehicle for very young children.
Here is the trailer on Youtube. We really had to push hard to get onto the app store for Christmas.
I’m working on an iPad game for Jim Henson’s Chatter Zoo. Here is the trailer on YouTube.
I’m using 3DS Max for the first time in over ten years! I’m fixing models, rigging them and animating them. The deadline is tight.
Using a different piece of software to do these familiar tasks is a bit like having a sex change: All the buttons are in a different place.
(I haven’t had an actual sex change, so please consult your doctor before acting on this information.)
In his review of The Dinosaur Project, Philip French’s says, ‘The CGI monsters are surprisingly convincing.’
Um, thanks!
The discovery Channel doco that I worked on ‘Can You Live Forever’ has been nominated for an Emmy!
