July 11, 2022No Comments

Kerv

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Bristol based agency Mr B & Friends have comissioned me to create 6 looping animations that are to be used across their client Kerv's website.

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July 11, 2022No Comments

GTC

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London based studio Really Bright Media commissioned me to create an opening sequence for stage at the Global Tax Conference 2022

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February 28, 2022No Comments

EA x Adidas

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I was working with the in-house team at The Mill to create this spot to promote the release of limited edition shirts from a collaboration between EA SPORTS and Adidas.

AGENCY
Agency EA
Producer Anthony Doyle, Thomas Gent
EDITORIAL
Editors Matthew Newman, Theo Gibara
COLOUR
Colour The Mill
Colourist Thomas Mangham
PRODUCTION
Production Company (Design) The Mill
Directors Oliver Davies, Stip
Service Provider Luttrell Productions
VFX CREATIVE
VFX Creative The Mill
Creative Director Tom Dibb
Directors Oliver Davies, Stip
Online Artist David Wishart, James Pratt
Design Paul Bloomfield, Sam Singleton, Henry Foreman, Kenny Addeh, Matthew Campbell, Oliver Johnson, Enric Rodriguez, Roly Edwards, Florian Thamer, Katie McQuillan, Anthony Fieldsend, Rajinder Davsi, Kwok Fung Lam
Storyboard Artist Sav Akyuz
VFX PRODUCTION
VFX Production The Mill
Producer Nicole Duncan
Assistant Producer James Yeo

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February 28, 2022No Comments

Bentley

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Working with the in-house team at The Mill I've been part in designing and creating elements for this Bentley commercial

Agency: Keko London
Producer: Tori Devgun
Creative Director: Paul Zeidler
Account Manager: Lisa Koba

Production: Mill+
Director: Aidan Gibbons, Ergin Kuke
Executive Producer: Josh Davies
Producer: Terri Wood, Bruce Williamson
Production Coordinator: Lucy Hawes
Shoot Supervisor: Dan Moller, Stefan Susemihl

Editorial & Sound
Editor: Johnny Rayner
Sound: Factory
VFX Production
VFX: The Mill
Executive Producer: Colin Oaten
Production Coordinator: Ellie Thwaites
Shoot Supervisor: Dan Moller, Stefan Susemihl

VFX Creative
2D Lead Artist: Stefan Susemihl
3D Lead Artist: Dan Moller, Ed Shires
2D Artist: Lucas Carrecedo, Matthew Unwin, Pete Hodsman, Joe Dymond, Charles Dockerill, Flavio Kawamoto, Jose Cabellero, Igor, Alfie Vaughn, Jiwti Tiwari, Arijit Ghosh, Maheshwaran Chandrasekaran, Venuprasath D, Amit Kambli, Aron Bjorketun
3D Artist: Maria Carriedo, Marta Carbonell, Antonio Filippin, Maxime Cronier, Marc Greyvenstein, Ashley Tilley, Amaan Akram, Luis Cancio, Abdel Halim Garess, Andreas Graichen, Peter Agg, Nicola Gilbert, Margeaux Huneau, Gabrielius Borukas, Sebastian Bispo, Vicky McIntyre Sivasubramanian, Somesh Tiwari, Lavan Kumar, Goonda Kiran Kumae
3D Concept: Andrea Chiampo, Sasha Vinogradova
3D Tracking: Raj Kumar M, Sathyaraj J, Leela Shankar, Manoj Ravi, Shristi Sanyal, Muruganantham T
Design: Matthew Campbell, Will MacNeil, Jessica Tan, Chris White, Florian Thamer, Filiberto Chiarinelli
Art Director: Grant Berry
Concept: Can Y Sanalan, Matthew Campbell

Colour: The Mill
Colourist: Oisin O'Driscoll

Sound: Factory
Producer: Lou Allen
Sound Engineer: Mark Hills

Music: Wake the Town
Producer: Dominic Bastyra
Musician: Slinger

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November 10, 2021No Comments

Rhinotillexomania

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Rhinotillexomania
/ɹaɪnəʊtɪˌlɛksəˈmeɪniə/
"a condition that causes a person to compulsively pick their nose"

Nose-picking or "nasa bora" - besides it's actual meaning - means having nothing to do, at least in the local Austrian dialect that I grew up with.

My ongoing series Rhinotillexomania explores algorithmically generated artificial organisms. Shape, color, size and other attributes are decided by a set of ground rules and then automatically generated and rendered by the hundreds over the course of many hours. I then go through the output and find interesting specimen, taking note of their attributes and tweak the algorithm to generate more organisms, slowly steering it towards what's aesthetically pleasing.

The act of setting up the rules, hitting render and having having nothing to do but wait (nasa bora) until the next day to be able to judge the outcomes has a wonderfully slow and analogue quality to it, similar to how wild-life photographers set up night-vision traps to capture the shiest forest creatures, then returning to check their cameras the next day only to realise that the focus was off (which definitely also happened here a couple of times).

In October 2021 I got a selection of these organisms printed on postcards and sent them to 50 of my social media followers around the world, together with little haikus I wrote (some of which were really funny if I dare to say so myself)
If you happen to read this and want a postcard too shoot me an email, I might still have some left (I'll pay for it of course).

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November 10, 2021No Comments

UI – Soon We Will All Be One

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I had the honour to work once again with my friends at Eat My Dear to create the snow particle effects for the short film "UI - Soon We Will All Be One".

Director: Johannes Mücke, Patrick Sturm
VFX Supervisor: Patrick Sturm, Markus Hornof
Technical Director: Bimo Wisaksono
Production Coordinator: Carolina Machtynger
VFX: Andre Heiter, Bimo Wisaksono, Markus Hornof, Patrick Sturm, Victoria Hauser, Marijan Schedler, Florian Thamer, Johannes Mücke
Colorist: Lee Niederkofler

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May 27, 2021No Comments

Mighty

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The London based studio BLINKINK reached out as they needed help creating a comical ad for Mighty, a web service that accelerates your internet browsing experience.

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May 17, 2021No Comments

Vinfast

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The super cool guys at Frost asked me to create the CG car for the Vinfast US teaser.
I was responsible for lighting, shading, and animation of all the CG shots.

Client: VinFast
Agency: AKQA
Studio: Frost Motion

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February 11, 2021No Comments

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

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I've had the pleasure to join the awesome team at SPOV and be part of Activision's Black Ops Series (I used to play way too much CoD back in the days to let this one slide)
Over the course of roughly a year (which felt like 3 years once lockdown hit us) we've developed a visual aesthetic that turned Call Of Duy: Black Ops Cold War's single player mode cinematics into an era appropriate cold war spy movie nostalgia trip.
We mixed 3D scenes with archival footage, recreated a lot of high res 2D maps and documents, while also shooting off an old CRT monitor with some good old signal interferrence (read: wiggling the cable)

I was leading the 3D team through the whole process from modelling in Cinema4D and texturizing assets in Substance Painter, over assembling and lighting the 3D scenes, to wrangling the big amount of Redshift renders we had to deliver on a very tight schedule towards the end.
The whole process was a massive learning experience for everyone (not just because we were forced to work from home at some point, spoiler alert: remotely working on two 4K screens is very impractical, bandwidth wise) and I'm really proud of the whole team and the end result.

We have also managed to keep the whole compositing pipeline fairly Adobe free, which by itself was quite a milestone for us. Blackmagic Fusion will be my compositing software of choice for future projects of that calibre and I can only recommend it to anyone who doesn't have the budget for a Nuke license.

Studio Head: Allen Leitch
Creative Directors: Mantas Grigaitis and Agnes Kasilovska
Head of Production: Jasmine Christmas
Director of Operations: Jacqueline Clarke
Lead 3D Supervisor: Florian Thamer
Art Direction: Mantas Grigaitis and Dave Penn
3D Team: Julio Dean, Roger Chiaw, James Brocklebank, Ferdinando Spagnolo, Lisander Qorri, Batu Cologlu, Jon Yeo, Matt Polechoński, Helder Ferreira, Ryan Close
2D Team: Simon Staines, Samantha Thompson, Sean McNulty, Thomas Pircher, Chris Sayer, Jason Pickthall
Compositing: Luíz Afonso Mota, Danit Klibansky, David Mir
Archivist: Jen Owen
Production Team: Didem Bayrak, Tim Rabjohns, Valentina König
Research Team: Martynas Stoskus, Vincent Kane, Steve Bergson, Gerry Healy, Alexey Kormilitsyn
Development Team: Gordon Spurs, Keko Ahmed, Julian Harding, Kieran Gee Finch, Craig Herd

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August 15, 2020No Comments

Escalation

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Escalation

Videoinstallation
Duration: ca. 17 Minutes

A human lifetime is on a vastly different scale to earth's deep geologic history. Epochs of evolution have created our complex ecosphere but we are now witnessing its collapse. The escalation of human activity is creating ecological breakdown yet, in our age of acceleration, it is rare to slow down long enough to see what is happening before our eyes and within our grasp. In a city like London, the pace of consumption is the same as in a busy gallery where it becomes difficult to engage with what is happening to our planet. Amidst a growing number of storms, the system in front of you is collapsing, whether you decide to witness it is up to you.

The visuals are designed around 24 datastreams from global ecological and geopolitical phenomena (e.g. CO2 ppm in the atmosphere, average mass of glaciers, world population, GDP, Micro-plastics in the ocean, military spending, ozone depleting substance emissions, global meat production). This data is fed into the system until it takes over and rips itself apart.

The artwork was shown in the exhibition Mars & Beyond in the Bargehouse Gallery, London, UK from 22 Feb to 15 Mar 2020 - just as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic started to grind the economy and life as we knew it to a halt.

Technical Details:
The artwork was created in Maxon Cinema 4D using the X-Particles Plugin, rendered in Redshift, postprocessed in Blackmagic Fusion and Adobe After Effects

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