Family Tree: Dubai World Expo 2015 FILM
Greg and Alister recently supervised VFX FOR THE UAE DUBAI official govt film
for WorldExpo 2015 in Milan Italy for BigPicture productions
They created digital Sandstorms, Erupting Skyscrapers and Photoreal Arabian
wolves.
Killers in Eden
This is a small selection of the 22 shots Greg produced and animated for the ABC
documentary “Killers in Eden”
The whales were all modelled , textured and animated by Greg and rigged and
composited by Al Ferguson and Mark Kennedy. The above water leap was animated
by Greg and composited by Dean Ervick and Al Ferguson.
These animations were Greg’s first ever attempt at 3D computer animation for a television or film
production. Click on the images to see the animation video clips.
Happy Feet
Orca Scene
Greg conceptualised, story-boarded and previs developed the complex Killer whale
orca action sequence for the Warner Bros / Kennedy Miller Mitchel Film “Happy Feet”.
He based the action concepts on examples of authentic orca behaviour.
Crowd
Greg also orchestrated the crowd positions of thousands of penguins for hundreds
of drama and dance shots in HappyFeet.
Echidna Airways
Greg developed some of these images in 1999 for a proposed 3D children’s animation series based on his Kid’s Book “Echidna Airways: the great Wungle Bungle Aerial Expedition”. It has not yet been shown to a network .
Software and technology have moved on considerably since then and Greg is
updating this project which has highly relevant environmental conservation
themes and rip roaring action!
Saved by Dolphins
Recent work includes building, animating and compositing great white and mako
sharks and bottlenose dolphins for the Bigwave/BBC documentary “Saved by dolphins”.
Greg and Al produced over 35 photorealistic HD CGI shots for the show, mixing real and live dophins in the same frame, all
for a shoestring budget.
Greg modelled, textured and animated all the sharks and dolphins. Compositing by
Greg and Al Ferguson. Al set up the character rigging for the sharks and
dolphins.
Click on the pictures to watch quicktime video Edited compilation here: DolphinsVFX.mov Youtube link
Turtle : the incredible journey
Greg and Alister recently supervised an international team for the award winning
European theatrical release documentary “Turtle the incredible journey”
Greg’s work was required to remain secret and in documentary festival screenings
around the world, even trained zoologists did not realise they were watching
CGi marine reptiles and sharks. Wildthings produced hundreds of shots. Watch a
small vfx sample here Greg performed final modelling and texturing of all characters and camera
tracked and animated all major shots and supervised anim on all others. Greg also composited numerous final shots.
Heavenly Project
Greg worked on wing and flight animation concepts for an ambitious and exciting
but abandoned feature film project.
