The Art Of Flight

The bar for cinematography, production and all out crazyness of winter action sport film, has just been raised once again by the people who brought you Thats it Thats All.

The Art of Flight is the latest offering from Red Bull and Brain Farm and looks set to blow us all away. I will be following the release of this very closely and keeping my fingers crossed that there is a Whistler premiere.

For now watch and enjoy.

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(Brain Farm, can I come work with you)

Whistler Photoblog

My posting and general blog development has been slow recently as I have set myself up in Whistler. Thought I would give a little update in the form of a photoblog of what I have been getting up too.

The short version of the past 6 weeks basically boils down to: we have a house, jobs and a dog, some giant tetris outfits but most importantly the snow is getting closer and closer to the village. The latter suggests that my blog posts will become even more infrequent as I will be spending every ounce of my free time in between working and editing, cruising the pow and shredding the knAr (snowboarding). I have had the opportunity and the pleasure to meet and begin working with some fine production outfits out here so I will post some works soon.

For now enjoy the photos. Their permanent home is here on my photoblog page but I thought I would add them here just for kicks. Its a direct feed from a Flickr account we share (we being: myself, my beautiful Victoria and Mike) and the idea is we all post our photos from goings on and everyone gets an idea of what we get up to without long winded emails. Hopefully in 12 months time we will have a cracking library of our whole adventure.

Leave a comment, let me know if you like.

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Riding

A big big passion of mine is snowboarding and recently a few photos have come to my attention that I want to share. I have been riding for about 5 years now after learning with the Leeds Met Snowboarding club (now Snowsports) on legendary slopes of the halifax hills. I spend most of my time at Castleford Xscape where there is a thriving indoor scene and many an awesome session. I am a big fan of fun park setups and rail features, both of which are a regularly present on the thursday and friday freestyle night at Cas. I know I will be back a Castleford in the future, but for now as I leave for the hills, these photos are a fun reminder of some good sessions in the dome, gonna miss them.

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You can click on the images to make them bigger

Big shout out to Fear of The Park for letting me put the photos on here. They are doing a brilliant job of reporting on the UK scene and travelling the length of the country to get the reports on the best sessions and events. Also check out their Shred, Lies & Videotape podcast.

Mixing it up..

Just been working on a few concepts for a projects. Wanted to play with some realflow.

Full animation will be up soon

Get Excited about stuff

something I came across that has motivated me though the cold winter afternoons.

This is a Matt Jones Creation and you can get a vector version from his blog

im off to make something

The best VFX Breakdowns, Cinemotion and Science

This is the first of what I believe will be post's purely based on what I have come across recently that has caught my eye, made me chuckle, or made me think "I should write a blog post about that".

Breakdowns

To start with AEtuts+ have posted a brilliant list of some of the best VFX breakdowns out there. I could watch them all night long. Especially the "Salty" a spot by Axyz, they reveal their secret to getting such great hdri solutions. Using "far-field" reference photos from the set as well as the usual HDR acquisition blended together to create great high detail lighting solutions for that super shiny ceramic look. I will certainly be experimenting with this, hell I might even post my experiments on here.