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Visual Effects & Animation / London / [email protected] / +44 [0]7833 795 779

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WIP Intro for new 2015 showreel

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This is another offcut from Bonnie Camplin's 'The DSV', part of the 2014 Liverpool Biennial. The version used was greatly slowed down and didn't include the melting.

I never got round to fixing the bumpy / rippled surface of the fluid in the second part as Bonnie didn't want to use that section anyway. It may have been more straightforward were it not for the thin horns which required a much lower particle separation in the FLIP fluid to be able to match the shape of the FEM sim.

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I made this for Mark Leckey's work-in-progress 'On Pleasure Bent', commissioned by Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), to be shown first at Haus Der Kunst in Munich as part of 'Als Ob', 30/01/15 - 31/5/15.

More information here.

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This came out of a number of tests for Bonnie Camplin's 'The DSV' at the Liverpool Biennial 2014.

It was an attempt to mimic natural cymatic phenomena. The colour, where present, is derived from the particle velocity.

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I made these bubbles for Bonnie Camplin's 'The DSV', part of the 2014 Liverpool Biennale.

More information here.

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I was the 3D supervisor for AKQA on Nissan's Oculus Rift powered IDx experience for the Tokyo Motor Show 2013. 

More information here.

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MTV Japan - Fresh Info - INTRO

Client : Airside Nippon

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MTV Japan - Fresh Info - OUTRO

Client : Airside Nippon

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DAM channel opening season 2

Client : Airside Nippon

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This is a test in Houdini 13 using the Flip Elasticity OTL from Johner [available here - sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&p=117810#117810] and Sergei Bolisov's Particle Surface Tension OTL [available here - orbolt.com/asset/vosiloB_::particle_surface_tension::1.0]

The source geometry is 'Nature Study' by Louise Bourgeois [1984]. I'm just using some turbulent noise in a VOP SOP inside a SOP solver to allow the particles to move bit by bit. It could do with some stickiness to connect the bulk of the fluid with the wetmap.

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This is a photogrammetric reconstruction of 'The Brain', in the collection of the British Library. It is extremely fragile and hence not on public display.

According to Kathleen Doyle, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts -

"The manuscript is a copy of the Decretals of Innocent IV, a canon law text. It was damaged in the fire in Ashburnham House in 1731 where the Old Royal Library and the Cotton Library were kept, but unlike most of the other manuscripts damaged in the fire, was not restored but was left in its burnt and shrivelled condition as a specimen of the former condition of the many of the other manuscripts before restoration. It is written on parchment, and has a few illuminated initials. It was in a monastic collection, probably at St Albans."

To find out more about the British Library’s collections visit bl.uk/

The model was generated using VisualSFM and Meshlab, textured in Maya with Oleg Alexander's texture projection tool [olegalexander.com] and rendered in Mantra.

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This is another experiment with openVDB volumes in Houdini using Mark Leckey's 'Flix' as the source footage.

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This is an experiment based on a couple of Andy Ellison's magnetic resonance images of foods.

Credit also to Rony Edde whose Pulsar tools - or rather the missing windows version of volumeGif - inspired me to work out how to do something similar myself.

I used an openVDB volume to sample the gif image sequence in Houdini then meshed that.

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RTS Craft & Design award 2012 Last November Rupert Ray won best titles at the RTS Craft and Design Awards for Parade's End.

VFX by 50 PERCENT GRAY.

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Mark Leckey's "Made in 'Eaven", 2004.

VFX by 50 PERCENT GRAY

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This is Mark Leckey's "Pearl Vision", first shown in 'Ghosts in the Machine' at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.

VFX by 50 PERCENT GRAY.