DIGITAL AMM0

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Senior vfx/3d Artist

Smoke & Mirrors – London [Fieldtrip and Big Buoy]

September 2011 to March 2018

 

My role involved all aspects of the day-to-day running of S&M London’s 3D department. Responsibilities included designing, heading up projects as well as building and scheduling teams. We ran Maya with Vray and I was moving away from Softimage to Houdini. I was responsible for a lot of the VFX elements of projects including, Hellmans vfx/3d lead vfx supervision on set in Cape Town South Africa and lead 3d. Tesco Mobile Design/3d animation Design and pipeline the production for old and new commercials. Viasat Sports Ident  Design/vfx/3d lead Design, creation and vfx supervision and composite. Twitter Design/vfx/3d lead Design, creation and animation lead  Plenty vfx/3d lead vfx supervision on set in Barcelona Spain and lead 3d. Red bull kaleidoscope Pre-Viz/ Design Pre-Viz the camera angles for the designed jumps    

 

Freelancing  October 2007 – 2011

 

Sky                       XSI animator SKY ONE, Great Directors ident.  

Lola                      XSI animator  TV Series ‘Earth Catastrophes’ and ‘How the Earth was made’.

Mecompany        XSI animator  Magazine and poster campaign ‘LG’.  

Glassworks         XSI animator  Commercial for ‘News of the World’ and bumpers for ‘Dave’.  

Fluid                     XSI animator  TV film ‘The Colour of Magic’  

Mr & Mrs Smith  XSI animator  TV commercial for the Irish Lottery    

 

Head of vfx/3d Clarke Associates Ltd

March 2003 - October 2007

 

I worked on the feature film ‘Man on Wire’ and the BBC TV series ‘Surviving Disaster’ and ‘Lost Worlds’, as well as ‘Superstorm’ and ‘Simon Schama’s Power of Art’. When digital ammo was merged with Clarke Associates, I took on the role of Head of 3D Design and Animation and 3D Visual Effects, which entailed both on-set CG supervision and green screen.  

 

Owner and Head of vfx/3d digital ammo Ltd  

December 1998 – October 2007

 

I set up digital ammo to take on 3D animation for commercial, broadcast and corporate clients. I also freelanced on projects that needed a self-motivated creative 3D person.  Clients included:  Mecompany   softimage3d  Computer Games ‘B.P.M’ - character design and animation.  Glassworks    softimage3d  Bjork music video ‘All is Love’ and commercials for Boots and BUPA.  Red Post    softimage3d  TV station ident for ‘ON digital’.  
 
Head of vfx/3d XTVCELL  

December 1997 – October 1998 

 

I headed up the 3D department and my role involved running and being an active member of the XTV design team. Projects included ‘Sky One’ Launch.  Other clients included Saatchi and Gray.  
 
Head of 3D/Graphics  London Post

Oct ’96 – Dec ‘97

 

I worked on projects including the Disney Channel, Channel 5 indents and Formula One titles.  
 
3D Designer / Animator  Timbo

Mar ’95 – Oct ‘96 

 

I worked with clients including BBC TV, Thames TV, Wall to Wall TV.  
 
3D Trainer/Demonstrator Softimage

Jan ’92 – Mar ‘94 

 

I worked closely with clients such as ILM and Sony on using Softimage.  
 
BBC NCA

Jan ’90 – Jan ’92

 

I was contracted to run and train the NCA 3D graphics dept in the use of Vertigo software.  Projects included ‘The Nine O'clock News’.  
 
3D Designer / Animator  G&T ltd  

Jan ’88 – Jan ’90 

 

3D Designer / Animator  Clients included British Airways, Mercury and Abbey National.