The Mill have posted a fantastic “Making Of” showing the huge amount of work that went in to making “A Revolution in Tea” for Lipton, from the initial practical FX RnD, to the rotomation, sims and seamless compositing. Full descriptions and explanations can be found here: http://www.themill.com/millchannel/617/behind-the-scenes-of-lipton-‘the-revolution-in-tea’ Here’s the “Making Of” Behind the Scenes: Lipton … Read More
This was my first job working with Houdini, creating smoke and dust for this commercial for Lipton. Using setups from my Leads we used Houdini’s smoke solvers and advected particles to create the powdery, inky effects seen in the red and yellow shots. Here’s a “Making Of..” from Lipton, too.
My Lead on this job, Alex, has been interviewed by Solid Angle about our use of their Arnold renderer on this ad. Find it here: https://www.solidangle.com/news/sse-maya/
We won! Three! SSE: Maya has won three awards at the VES awards. Outstanding Animated Character in a Commercial or Broadcast Program Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal/Live Action Commercial. http://www.themill.com/news/2015/february/5/sse-maya-wins-3-ves-awards.aspx http://deadline.com/2015/02/ves-awards-winners-2015-visual-effects-society-award-winner-list-1201366460/ Congratulations to all the people that worked on this job. I am very proud to have been a … Read More
We’ve just finished up on this campaign for Currys / PC World. I worked as part of the pre-vis team, closely with the director, Chris Cairns, creating the choreography for the various motion-controlled, stop-motion and CGI appliances in order for the team on-set to understand the timings of the practical rigs and eventual composition. The … Read More
The latest job I’ve been working on has now aired. “SSE – Maya” – ironically named as the bulk of which was made in Softimage! SSE have also uploaded a “Making Of” http://www.themill.com/work/sse-orangutan.aspx
Our latest offering for Audi. Domino Road Effects and Light-Effects (ICE), Rigging, CAD-Wrangling and Workflow Tools http://www.themill.com/work/audi-domino-race-track.aspx
We’ve recently uploaded a “Behind the Scenes” for the Pepsi: Soundcheck Superbowl halftime commercial. Here it is: Behind the Scenes: Pepsi “Soundcheck” from The Mill on Vimeo.
Rynkeby have recently released a “Making Of” for this job. Here it is.
This is the latest job we’ve been mischievously working on. I worked on hair and particle effects. Enjoy!