not good blog a great blog

It's been a long whole since I have posted anything. So what have I been doing to increase my chances of landing that Pixar job well.....I have been doing something. The biggest thing to happen is I just finished a 3 month contract back at my old stomping ground 'iloura' post productions. Were I was lucky enough to somehow sneak into the team and work on the latest Drumstick commercial. I do have to say this have been one of my highlights in the industry so far. I saw some concept sketches whilst lingering at iloura then proceed to wink, nudge,....plead and beg until they gave me the contract. If you would like to check it out you can see the full 60sec Here .It was a great job Directed by a first timer director (old timer 3D lead) Josh Simmonds, cummon he had all the ingredients - great live action plates, incredible concept designs, excited clients and the cherry on top - an agency willing to let the 3D artist run free a little.

Here is a list of stuff I got to do - Modelling, Robot, BBQ's, Thongs, Ice creams, Sandman and his float. I also did the lighting and rendering for all the main Robot shots, plus the thongs.

Below is a WIP of the Sandman float that I am quite happy with


Now to move onto something even more exciting - 'Welcome to the Biggs' my personal project. This is were a great blog comes into play. I am totally buzzed - the people involved and the concept work being produced is inspiring to say the least. Firstly there's a new guy doing some after hours (free) ZBrush work on the project. He read my blog and script and offered to have a crack at some modeling. This is some of the stuff he has done -

OLD HASBEEN MONTY - WIP V02. I love this work, the body is perfect, I am getting him to work on the head which is a very evolving process as we have to also work the Allstar Monty at the same time to make sure there's continuity between the ages

SATAN - WIP V01 - still early days but the body proportions are cool



And check this out - it's an Expression sheet done by Kate Moon frikin AWESOME !!!!

That's some of the best concept work I have seen since the Drumstick commercial. Which isn't so funny cause Kate did that aswell.

I am totally inspired and buzzed to have Kyle, Kate and Eoin chipping in. Thanks guys. If you get a moment please checkout there websites by clicking there names (hyperlink'ed).

Oh and there one more guy I hope to get in the Mix - Paul Braddock, a crazy talent working at Animal Logic. Here's a sketch he did awhile back. I might get in contact with him soon to see how busy he is. Check out his site - really nice work.


More concept work - hopefully much sooner then 3 months away baaahaha Lets say 3 days away