BAFTA nomination for #Wonders

OK, I've had a cup of tea and a slice of cake so I'm slightly calmer now, I'll explain a bit more fully:
I work at BDH making CGI for television, which can involve making all sorts of things, from visualizing thought to animating bouncing sex toys.

Last year we were lucky enough to work on a miraculous programme called "Wonders of the Universe", hosted by Professor Brian Cox, and produced by the BBC.

For someone who grew up on Carl Sagan, Star Trek and Doctor Who it was a very special experience for me personally.

I was largely responsible for star surfaces, coronal loops and solar flares.

So now the work we did has been nominated for a Visual Effects award at the Television Craft BAFTAs, alongside Great Expectations, Inside the Human Body, and... DOCTOR fucking WHO.
So today couldn't really get more awesome.

(There is 15 minute edit of just the work we did here:




and a lovely playlist of clips from the actual series here:

 

in case you are unfamiliar with it's magic.)

Did I mention I just had cake?

Frozen Planet Trailer

This is Frozen Planet, which I was working for a while there..

Should be going out on BBC One soon (Oct?).

I was taking and interpreting data from NASA and commercial satellite scans and turning them into accurate, explanatory yet aesthetically pleasing globe views.

I was assisted in the task by the excellent Jessica Lee.

There is one at the front of this trailer there, but it has been compressed to **** on the YouTubes, there are at least another 6 million shades of snow in there on the full HD version.

(All the animals are real, btw.)

A Cosmological Fantasia

Very proud to say I am a small part of the awesomeness that is the BDH graphics team on the BBC's Prof. Brian Cox, doe-eyed-lens-flare-fest, “Wonders of the Universe”.

I made particular contributions to star surfaces and coronal loops.

Here is an edit of all the graphics we produced for the series, with a soundtrack by Timo Baker.

This comes with a caution, as face melting may occur.

EDIT: Looks like they had to take the edit down, but you can still see the trailer for the show here.

La primavera

Largo from Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, “La primavera” (Spring).
A few years back we made projections for a live performance by the Emerald Ensemble of the "Four Seasons" by Vivaldi.
This is one I did for the second movement of Spring.
There was very little budget, so I spent a week or two listening to the piece over and over, when in the car, then did all the CGI work in less than 2 office days.
From the BDH website:
"Vivaldi wrote sonnets for each concerto in the Four Seasons. For this piece he wrote:

“And now, in the pleasant, flowery meadow, to the soft murmur of leaves and plants, the goatherd sleeps with his faithful dog at his side.”

Each musical element clearly illustrates a scene and the shapes in the animation reflects that."

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LIFE

LIFE
Made the big droplet and the Globe.
I'm the globe guy.
We're the globe guys.

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Britsh Style Genius Won the RTS

For best Title Sequence.
We're all very happy and a tad emotional.
Well done us, and a big thanks to everyone who supported and helped along the way.

“The judges felt this sequence was unique, bold, edgy and very striking. The animation was cleverly done, maintaining a real strength truly befitting the feel of the programme.”

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Yellowstone Content Graphics

(movie here)

At BDH we did the titles and content graphics for the BBC NHU series Yellowstone.

Using NASA Landsat and height data to create "shuttle-view" aerials, we had the pleasure of matching the mood and lighting of the amazing footage the team shot on location.

Final Delivery was in HD.

Maya Frame Loop expression

Note to self: the expression "(frame)%250" will loop a 250 frame sequence in Maya. But they don't put it in the help files.

Y'all got that?

British Style Genius

Recently at BDH, myself and the very clever and splendid Orla Handley made the titles for the up coming BBC series "British Style Genius". The first episode of which goes out 21:00hrs, 7th October on BBC TWO (that's in the UK only as far as I know).

Handley did the designing, editing, crazy-bonkers stop frame animation etc. I made CGI threads, worked out how to fit them with the stop frame, some compositing, a bit of camera holding, frowning, pointing, and occasional fetching stuff.

After the initial building of the sequence Handley went on to produce five separate colorways, to match the style of each episode of the series, which all deal with different sections of British fashion history.

This means everyone must watch all five episodes to fully appreciate the total awesomeness of this title sequence.



Update 1: BSG Featured in Broadcast
Update 2: On Cartoon Brew (Thanks Amid)
Update 3: YouTube Link

Earth

Had small part to play in this planetary stuff.

Vegas Baby Vegas

Something we did a while back for Proper Telly (Saturday night, Vernon Kay, etc etc):

Boy with The Incredible Brain

I did the squiggly numbers for this documentary about a chap who could do clever stuff with sums n'that:

Let Love Be Your Energy

See that big shiny thing behind the little fella, that's me that is.

Flying Saucer Attack

Our new website has an embedding facility.

Here is an ad we did for HSA. I got to contribute some flying saucers.

It doesn't get much better than that.

That is Steve in the green catsuit by the way.

No, really.

This time 6 months ago I was mostly animating sex toys.



..
Myla's Sphere -


I was assured no small dogs were harmed by flying vibrators during the making of this viral.

There's a better quality version on the Myla website.

And while you're there, why not treat yourself.

You deserve it.

Fortune: "ditados pela diaba veste fause!"