I'll be turning my back on Sydney soon to join the crew at Weta in Wellington, NZ as a Lookdev and Texture Artist. Very excited !

Animal Logic got some work  for Happy Feet 2 and some of our shots ended up in the trailer. I worked a wide variety of tasks on the FX heavy shots from Enviornment Surfacing, FX Surfacing and even modelling. Watch the trailer below.

Thank you for the great support for MARI @ IDEASCALE. Within the last month a whole bunch of cool ideas has been submitted from Users. We do need more Users voting though to get a good represantative result - so keep it coming !

The software we use in our daily routine has a huge impact on productivity and any second you have to deal with technical issue or bugs is a second wasted. 

Today in my crosshairs: Mari from the Foundry, the high-end texture paint tool.

I created a Database at Ideascale where you can subdmit ideas and vote on them. 

I picked up the base model (by Oliver Marc Plouffe) from a CGTalk Challenge and started doing some Highres Zbrush Sculpting. Might do some texturing if I can find the time.

I've added some additional shots from Guardians to my reel.

I'll be returning to Animal Logic's Sydney Office in January after a short absence of a few months.

Legend of the Guardians opened last week with a disappointing first weekend.

Coming in at about 16.5 Million opening weekend it failed to reach the hoped for minimum of 20 million and had to concede a Number One Spot at the Box Office to Wall Street 2.