I've added a variety of Nodes I've written for Mari 2.0 to the Texture Tools.

There are also some Mari Workflow Tutorials up that I did for the MARI CHANNEL.

Back in early 2011 during my time at Animal Logic I worked several months on a short movie for coke. I thought it had died since then but apparently it hasn't and has since then been made into a commercial as well.

I did all of the Ice and snow shader development + did actual texturing and lookdev on large parts. This includes all of the sequence on the frozen lake, around the area of (including) the initial ice arch, mountains and a lot of the shoreline.

Apart from the Hobbit, Man of Steel has been a big part of my year at Weta. The first theatrical trailer with a few of my shots is attached to the Hobbit:

The first part of the Hobbit has wrapped little over a week ago with Weta Digital having delivered more than 2100 VFX Shots. Now it's time for the wait for this thing to open world wide and see how people like it. Personally I will reserve judgement, till I see it a second time.

I've released a plugin for Zbrush in the Texture Scripts Section.

The PSD Interop Plugin allows you to quickly send Discplacement, color, mask and material data between Photoshop and Zbrush

The latest Hobbit Trailer is out. I've been lucky enough to sneak some things like the hedgehogs in there.

I am spending a lot of time these days working on the next installement of Superman by Zack Snyder and Christophr Nolan. While the movie is still a good while away, the first teaser is out:

Avengers had its Worldpremiere yesterday. I was lucky enough to be able to contribute some small amount of texturing work to it.

Sick of dealing with different Naming Convention Reqirements for different tools ? 

Well then this script might be for you ...

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.