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Three – “Go Roam”

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys] Lead 3D | Feather Groom | L&R [/categorys] [text]Half giraffe, half flamingo. Not much more to add! I whipped out the feathers again for this project, grooming and look dev-ing the flamingo portion of the animal as well as leading the final delivery of the spot. […]

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Virgin Media – “Delivering Awesome”

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys] Lead 3D | Shoot [/categorys] [text]A total throw the kitchen sink 3D-athon commercial for this one. Everything from Pre-viz, tunnel extensions, vehicles to robots and astronauts. Here’s a little behind the scenes: Virgin Media – Behind the scenes [/text]

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Waitrose – “Coming Home”

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys] Lead 3D | Feather Groom | L&R [/categorys] [text]For the 2016 Waitrose Christmas advert we took on the challenge of creating a CG robin! Working alongside R&D I helped develop a new feather system to give us the flexibility required to make the advert, such as […]

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B&Q – Beavers

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys] LookDev | L&R [/categorys] [text]Claire & Billy are a beaver couple with home improvement on the mind. I worked mainly on the shading of the fur for both of the characters as well as the lookDev of their skin and accessories. I also lit and rendered […]

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B&Q – Zebra

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys] Groom | L&R [/categorys] [text]For B&Q’s latest commercial we brought Fred, an eccentric, colour loving zebra, to life. In many of the shots we replaced the whole zebra mask with a 3D talking version, where as in others we patched in eyes, mouth and ears to […]

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Sky Q – DRTV

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys] Lead 3D | L&R [/categorys] [text]One part of a series of eight spots following on from Sky Q’s fluid viewing campaign. I was the Lead 3D artist and heavily responsible for the choreography and ensuring continuity from the previous campaigns. [/text]

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Legoland – “Awesome Awaits”

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys]L&R Lead[/categorys] [text]For Legolands latest campaign we designed and Lego-fied all sorts of characters, from Pirates to drum playing octopuses. I was responsible for supervising the lighting and rendering of the spot as well as working out how to render millions of bricks within Houdini and Arnold. […]

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BBC Music – “God Only Knows”

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys] Lead 3D Cloud Sequence | Groom | Lighting & Rendering[/categorys] [text]For the grand launch of BBC Music I was lucky enough to work on the end cloud sequence as well adding angel wings to Lorde. I also worked on the build of the single feather at […]

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Nike Football: Winner Stays.

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys] Lead 3D London | Rendering[/categorys] [text]On Nike’s latest football epic, “Winner Stays”, I was responsible for the delivery of the London team’s 150+ VFX shots, as well as rendering across the commercial. Rendered in Houdini with Mantra [/text]

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VW Wings

[image][/image] [link]Mill LA[/link] [categorys] Lead 3D | Groom | Lighting & Rendering[/categorys] [text]”For every 100,000 miles a German engineer gets his wings” For VW’s most recent SuperBowl commercial we took on the challenge of adding 3D wings into two shots to sit aside practical wings, sprouting from German engineers. The […]

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Smithwick’s “Squirrel”

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys]Lighting & Rendering[/categorys] [text]For Smithwick’s Squirrel we embarked on the challenge of creating a fully 3D beer brewing, aging Squirrel! I was responsible for lighting and rendering all of the shots where the squirrel was on the control panel including the close up of the eye. Where […]

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Fruit d’Or: “Hugo”

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys]Shoot | Feather Groom | Rendering[/categorys] [text]For this spot we were required to create a fully CG bird: “Hugo”. I was mainly responsible for the groom of the bird crafting the density, flow and lengths of each feather. This was particularly tricky as we tried to stay […]

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Kia – Recommendations

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys] Previz | Shoot | Lighting & Rendering[/categorys] [text]Kia’s “Reviews and Recommendations” campaign required us to create an installation space to mimic their customers feedback – aka thousands of keyboard keys! I was involved throughout the ad, from early previz-ing, shoot supervision and then lighting and rendering. […]

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Bell – Any Screen, Anywhere

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys]Lighting & Rendering | Pipeline | Shading[/categorys] [text]A spot for Bell Canada in preparation for the 2012 Olympics. I was responsible for the shading, lighting & rendering as well as pipelining the commercial. Rendered in Maya with Arnold. [/text]

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Showreel ’12

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys]Various[/categorys] [text] A selection of commercials worked on since joining The Mill, from angels to hummingbirds… Many of the commercials featured can be found in full below. [/text]

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Rainbow Six: Patriots Trailer

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys]Texturing | Shading | Lighting & Rendering[/categorys] [text] A totally 3D cinematic for the new Rainbow 6 game, which is to be released in 2013. I was mainly lighting and rendering on this job, but was also involved with texturing and shading environment elements, as well as […]

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Audi HummingBird

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys]Modeling | ICE | Lighting | Rendering[/categorys] [text] A fully CG spot for the new Audi A6 Avant saw us create a hummingbird designed to mimic the look and feel of the car. I was mainly responsible for the shots where the hummingbird finds itself amongst a […]

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Axe/Lynx: Fallen Angels

[image][/image] [link]Mill London[/link] [categorys]Tracking | Texturing | Lighting & Rendering[/categorys] [text] This was the first Lynx Angels ad The Mill worked on. Since working on this spot I’ve worked on many aspects of the campagian from iAd’s and Kelly Brook interactive facebook videos, to German Advent calendars. I’ve worked on […]