Vectrex

I grew up in San Francisco, moving to New Zealand in 2009 to work at Weta on Avatar. I left everything I owned in storage in California, thinking I would retrieve it after a year. 7 years later I’ve finally retrieved what has amounted to a time-capsule. The Vectrex was released in 1983, and is essentially…

Mandala

The 3D mandala structure was the main element on which the capetown mesh and all structures and elements rested upon. The short clip of the mandala opening sequence clip is below, in HD and SD.   The hundreds of structures were made in Maya using a breakdown of each structure here, created to make sure…

2D and 3D

A traditional pencil animation I did to test a small lunchbox built with a light fixed underneath a see-through surface with a downward facing camera. I drew around 300 images, some reused for final pose, to create 10 seconds of animation.                     This I call “Rubberman”,…

X-Men: First Class

  Here Ludger Pistor and Wilfried Hochholdinger portray Nazi soldiers which Michael Fassbender‘s character confronts in the bar scene. Pistor and Hochholdinger also played Nazis in Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Fassbender played an Allied soldier.   To prepare for his role as Charles Xavier, James McAvoy shaved his head… and learned that the filmmakers wanted…