A Busy Few Months

I must apologise for neglecting this blog over the last few months, it has been a very busy time. First off, I graduated from the University of Glamorgan with a First Class degree in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics. As you can imagine I am very happy about this and hope it will act as a key to gain access to the Visual Effects industry.

Next, I moved house. I'm still based in Cardiff, but it took me a little while to sort out my computer system and internet connection etc.

Since then I have worked on a few independent short film productions. The most noteworthy of them, were Olympic VIP and Down in the Third.

I believe I mentioned Olympic VIP whilst I was working on the pre-production for this project with Chelange Joseph. Well, just to let you know, this short boxing themed musical was entered into Panasonic's competition to celebrate the Olympic games, and we came first! We were very surprised about this, as we had much less time to work on this as our team was the reserve team and had to step in at the last minute. I'm told the finished edit is on youtube somewhere, but I don't actually have a link just yet. I will post it once I find it.

The other project, is a short film written and directed by Michael Brooks called Down in the Third. The film is a boxing/crime thriller and aims to be as visually impressive as classics such as Raging Bull and the Rocky franchise. You can view the trailer on Vimeo here:

The film premieres next week on the 18th October and is being endorsed by Two Times Heavy Weight World Champion Tim Witherspoon. The production team hope to enter this film into a number of film festivals over the next two years, so keep your eyes out for it.

I have been working on this project for the last few months, putting together invisible VFX shots. This largely included RotoPainting and inserting TV content, but also a few Crowd Replication shots and blood splatter shots. I've put together a short VFX Breakdown video of some of the cooler shots I've worked on since starting this project. I hope you like it.

Check out the Official Down in the Third Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DownInTheThird