Jonathan Biggins : Freelance Compositor » fridayispieday: Jonathan Biggins – Freelance Compositor http://www.fridayispieday.com:/blog Compositing, Motion Graphics and Visual Effects for Film & TV Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:19:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 We May Be Shadows http://www.fridayispieday.com:/blog/2011/08/we-may-be-shadows-2/ http://www.fridayispieday.com:/blog/2011/08/we-may-be-shadows-2/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:02:44 +0000 admin http://www.fridayispieday.com:/blog/?p=533 [...]]]>

An update on work in progress… Total VFX production on the short film 'We May Be Shadows'. Including VFX supervision of the Greenscreen shoot, 3D Camera Tracking of 60+ steadycam shots; modeling, texturing and lighting of CGI Backgrounds; Keying; Compositing; and visual treatment of the shadow characters.

More updates to come soon. Find out more abot the film here

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Directed by Paul Dudbridge

Produced by Paul Dudbridge for Hanover Pictures

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Mother of Many

Winner of the Best Short Animation BAFTA 2010 – Well done Emma!

Compositing on the short film Mother of Many. Combining Flash animation with printed and filmed textures.

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Directed by Emma Lazenby

Produced by Sally Arthur for Arthur Cox Ltd

Commissioned by UK Film Council, South West Screen and 4mations

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Little Face

Compositing of over 100 shots combining CGI and live action, for the short film Little Face

Nathan’s job has nothing to do with dinosaurs. This makes Little Face sad.

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Written, Directed and Animated by Matthew Walker,
Co-Directed by Benjamin Lole for Digital Shorts 08.
Produced by Calling the Shots
Featuring Adam Buxton as Nathan.

Commissioned by UK Film Council and South West Sreen

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The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother

Compositing on the short film The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper’s Mother by Felix Massie.

The story of Francis Cooper and his mother; Emily Maddison and that man’s face; and Craig MacKay and his cat.

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Written and Directed by Felix Massie for Digital Shorts 08
Produced at Arthur Cox Ltd
Produced by Sarah Jex for Aardman and Sarah Cox for Arthur Cox
Voiced by Alexei Sayle.

Commissioned by UK Film Council and South West Screen.

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A Time and a Time

3D and 2D compositing of archive stills and film footage, including stabilising, keying and rotoscoping.

A short film produced and directed by Sarah Cox created entirely from found archive footage of Bristol. Funded by South West Screen RIFE Lottery Digital Archive Media fund

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Directed by Sarah Cox
Produced by Arthur Cox Ltd

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Don't Let it All Unravel - Short Film for Live Earth

Greenscreen keying, rig removal and compositing for the short film Don’t Let it All Unravel.

A film directed by Sarah Cox for the Live Earth concerts. The brief was Save our Selves and this film uses real knitted animation as a metaphor for how quickly global warming can unravel our delicate ecosystem. Produced by Sarah Jex for Aardman Animation. The music is the unadulterated recording in 1967 of two Burundi Girls singing ‘Akazehe par deux jeunes Filles’.

Directed by Sarah Cox

Produced at Arthur Cox Ltd

Produced by Sarah Jex for Aardman

Client: Live Earth

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