Quarkie!

I just completed this new film for the just released Quarkie earphone range. It was a bit of an international project considering the client was British, the backgrounds and character were designed by Ken and Kanok, respectively, from Thailand and the character animation was done by AxisStudio in Hong Kong.

Animators Without Borders on MintViz

I've just written the first of a series of articles called Animators Without Borders. It's about working abroad in animation. If you're looking for tips and advice or simply if you are just interested take a look over at MintViz.

Showreel 2011

Yes, it's that time again. Here is my new showreel on both youtube and vimeo.

My updated showreel for 2011 showing the new work I have done since coming to Hong Kong, as well as my older work from London and Bangkok. This reel shows a mixture of my work including TVC, film, branding and music visuals. It also shows a variety of my skills including 2D and 3D character animation, 2D and 3D tracking, compositing (after effects, nuke, combustion, shake), 3D particle/dynamics simulations (PFlow, Realflow, Thinking Particles, Particular, MoDynamics), 3D modelling/texturing/lighting/rendering (3DS Max, Cinema 4D, Maya, Vray) and editing in FCP.

Hong Kong

I have now moved to Hong Kong and started a new job working for a very cool company called carbon.tv
They focus mostly on television branding but are now branching more into commercials.

Also, Caitlin thought it would be a good idea to get me two 3-legged rodents for my birthday:

Showreel 2010

Here is my new showreel. I'm still missing some things, such as a title sequence for an upcoming feature-film called 'Genius of Beauty' which I designed, animated and directed myself. Plus I was the lead-compositor for another feature film called 'Clockwise', Qatar's first feature film, which I will add when I get it. Also, some projects need to be updated with newer versions.

14min version:



10min version:

First Thai wedding

Me, Ken and Nung.


Last week I went to my first Thai wedding when my friend Tae married his wife Ice. Though it was a Christian wedding there were still some cultural elements that were interesting. They had the traditional bouquet toss but with a difference, all the unmarried girls, and guys, each took a separate ribbon attached to the bouquet. Everyone pulled at once and the last one attached was the winner.

There was also a lot of singing by whomever wanted to sing a song to the happy couple. There were Korean missionaries there too, who also sang to the couple, and I guess it was down to either them or their predecessors for the family's conversion to Christianity at some point.

More photos.

'Clockwise' Tiles

I recently pitched for and won a title sequence for a feature film called 'Clockwise'. This is part funded by Aljazeera and is going to be Qatar's first feature film. Below is the pitch with my designs that a Thai colleague, kendee001.blogspot.com, helped me with.