A video of my Digital Storytelling Presentation is online.

Weta Digital have put together a selection of behind the scenes vignettes of the work done on Peter Jacksons Lovely Bones.  The sinkhole sequence was what I was mainly involved with and it’s great to be able to show how much work actually went into those shots.  Check them out here.

I had a great day at the Digital Storytelling conference and I think the presentation was well received.  I’ve made a pdf ( with images removed ) of my slides and I’ll be uploading a narrated quicktime soon – it was apparently recorded so I’ll link to that once it’s online. CDoncaster_DigitalStorytelling2010

I was recently interviewed by the Norwegian film publication Rush Print about working on Avatar and my impressions of the local industry, it’s available on line here. I’ve also been invited to speak at the Digital Storytelling conference in April, Bryan spoke a few years back and I’m looking forward to this years line up. [...]

SideFX has been kindly publishing a few Houdini Masterclass videos on their website covering some of the newer features of Houdini 9.5. Thanks guys!

It’s very easy for companies to be complacent about their employees and all too many are falling into the trap of thinking that ‘it’s an honour to work for us’ and in an industry largely driven by contract employment it becomes a slippery slope.  Rather than harbouring talented individuals there’s a trend of burning them [...]