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Syd Mead is coming to Australia. My mate Paul is organising the Sydney leg and so I thought I’d give a quick shout out and post the details. So if you’re in Sydney, come along, it should be an awesome night!
For those who dont know Syd Mead.. SHAME on you!! Here are the [...]

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As promised in part 1, here is part 2 of the matte painting projection post.
I recently finished two shots for a client that needed scenes of New York city circa 1927. This is not a literal rendition of NY city, the buildings are in all the wrong places.. but this was meant to be [...]

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Been a hellishly busy several weeks which has been both a blessing and a curse! Good for the cash flow, not so good for oil painting! Been working with SOAP Creative here in Sydney on a James Bond website promotion thingy.. I cant say much more than that and will post more when I [...]

I just had to post this..
Yesterday morning, the head of Dept of Industrial Design at Newcastle TAFE called me to apologise for his student’s poorly drafted email, (see last post, ‘How NOT to contact a professional artist!’).
I called this gentleman back today and we had an interesting chat. He had taken this issue up with [...]

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Came across a few old photographs of my time at Digital Domain, circa 1996.. In the visual effects world, that’s like dog years, every one of ours is like 160 odd years to us. So 1996 puts these pictures around 150BC in film VFX terms! Which makes these guys… well, its makes them advanced [...]

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Long time no blog.. I said I wouldn’t leave it so long after my last entry and I was right.. It was LONGER!
First off, I got an image into Ballistic Publishing’s Expose´7, pg 116, environments section.. Some really cool work in this edition so go check it out!
One thing that I have noticed over [...]

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Seeing as how Knowing is out in cinemas (in the US at least), I thought I would show the matte painting I did for the film. For those with a sharp eye and access to the original trailer, go check out the shot as it was before Animal Logic hauled me in to fix [...]