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Jul 15

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New site in progress! – please mind the gaps!

It’s been a while since I upgraded/modified my website, and now I have finally had some time to get it started. For now the galleries will remain as with my previous site style until I can migrate everything in this new site structure. For now there will be gaps, things missing and a few dead links, so please be patient!

Jul 08

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One from the past!

Just going through some of my extensive back catalogue of work and picking out a few examples to highlight! – this from 2008, commissioned by 3DWorld Magazine to accompany an editorial on ‘Mac Myths / debunking OSX)

Feb 25

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What’s your tipple?

It’s not always about slick Apple concepts, sometimes I get to create rendered concepts of fine whisky bottles and packages! – in this case, the bottle was modeled from engineering schematics and will in fact be used as box art.

Nov 08

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War of the Worlds TV ad starts airing!

I’ve been working on CG for the prequel section, as well as some character animation for the Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds Live Show for the last few months, and since the show starts its run this month (Nov) the ad which has some of my CG from the start is beginning to air in the UK.

Jul 12

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War of the Worlds – Live show CG

I’m currently working on CG animated backdrops for Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds live show! – Here are some stills from the ‘Prequel’ sequence on the surface of Mars.

May 24

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Recent training for BBC Arabic @ Maxon UK

The designers from BBC Arabic requested some training at the Maxon UK offices in Bedfordshire, and Maxon asked me to be the tutor. We focused on materials, shaders, lighting and rendering. We didn’t have very much time to prepare, but with a combination of specific queries for the BBC team, some of their scene files as well as mine for examples, we had a constructive 2 day session, despite the sudden heatwave! Maxon and I are considering doing some masterclasses where I dissect a few of my key images/scenes, and take a group through the processes involved in their creation, if you are interested in this, please drop me a line!

May 15

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Recent Commissions

A couple of recent magazine covers for 2 Future US publications!

Jan 28

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Concept becomes reality!?

Yesterday, Apple finally announced the iPad tablet that people have been speculating about for several years. I have created a number of concepts based on the rumors and conjecture, amongst them is this one I created for MacFormat magazine back in March/April 09. I just struck me as very close to the new iPad with keyboard dock!!? Maybe a gift wrapped, full spec iPad with a note from Steve Jobs and Jonathon Ives would be in order!? 😉

Dec 02

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Merry Christmas!

Wishing a Merry Christmas, and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year to all! 🙂

Sep 14

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New Eden – latest personal work.

This image, or at least one like it has been in my mind for literally years now. Probably inspired by a couple of NASA’s space colony concepts of the 70’s, definitely by Ben Bova’s novel ‘Colony’, and obviously to an extent by Greg Bear’s ‘Eon and Clarke’s ‘Rama’ series! At any rate, after getting the newest version of Cinema 4D, with render instances, and speeded up sub poly displacent, I did a couple of tests with large amounts of trees, and then started to put this idea to the test.

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