So today I bid farewell to Shy the Sun. During my 11 month tenure, I have had the privilege of working with some totally amazing people, from truly amazing 3D Artists, Illustrators and more! We worked hard, but played just as hard… and even though there were rough times we had great times too. Many a story there! The year has been filled with all sorts of new 3D challenges, having being exposed to some totally mind blowing art (weather 3D or Illustrated) that has changed the way I view my role and my goals within the industry. I was challenged nearly every step of the way and had ‘my perceived personal weaknesses’ strengthened as I was given more and more challenging work with complete trust! My joining Shy the Sun came at the same time as my relocation from Jhb to CT and with the long hours we worked, everyone here became more than just a work colleague. I consider you all friends and hope to work or collaborate with you again!
I look forward to seeing you continue to grow from strength to strength and continually produce mind blowing work. Work that people don’t just accept but actually stop, look, look again… all whilst their jaw hangs loose from amazement. All the best for the future!
Just a quick post to get it up on my site, since it was finally aired during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, Friskies Adventureland is the latest commercial I worked on with Shy the Sun.
We are hard at work on the ‘Making Of’ so be sure to keep an eye out for that! It will have all sorts of behind the scenes stuff showing character & enviroment developement along with shots from the orginal green screen shoot
Some of the comments going around on the web at the moment include,
Friskies ‘Adventureland’ – leaving us ‘almost’ speechless – Zandland
This is one of the most incredible commercials I have ever seen in 50+ years of watching TV. It is an ambitious, impressive work of creativity and imagination. Kudos to Purina for sponsoring this work of art – autocinematic on youtube
Received a nice little pat on the back this morning when I logged into 3DOcean.net this morning! Have been made Featured Author
Always nice to be recognised… even in the small ways!!
On a side note, I am really hoping to get some of the work I have done in the last year on the site soon! I should at least be able to get the Friskies Television Advert up on the site within the next few weeks! So keep checking back for that!
Also I decided to go large (not really) and get myself a flickr account… just to post some of the pics I take! Go Check em out!! Comment too
With another advert behind us, and it sitting at Passion Pictures in the UK where the final comp is being put together, I get to have some free time….. what do I do? I keep coming into work and carry on dabbling in 3D! So I decided to model up the Cape Town Cable Car. It has been a fun little project presenting some unique challenges which is always great, it keeps me on my toes! So here is a preview… its still very much Work in Progress! I have decided that next week I am actually going to take sometime off and explore Cape Town thus this will get slightly neglected for a short while!
Its been a while since I last posted… Happy New Year to all my Readers… I hate the fact that I haven’t written in so long but sadly sometimes the 3D Industry dominates your life & work just takes over! I hope to get back into my blogging soon though and will get the site buzzing again! ^_^ Annoyingly all of the jobs I worked on in ‘09 are still in production, or still hiding under NDAs! As soon as those projects get released I will get them up on the site too!
In the meantime though, I have begun selling 3D Models online! I decided to go with 3DOcean.net instead of Turbosquid, simply from the viewpoint that Turbosquid is filled with a lot of potential rubbish and at the same time the user specifies the prices for their models. On 3DOcean.net however each model gets checked & approved before going online and also the price for each item is set by 3DOcean.net themselves, thus controlling the market a lot better!
So on that note… I am 6 days away from a huge deadline and can hear my producers whips cracking behind me!! Setting Up & Checking passes is a slow process and whilst I wait for renders I am busy writing this!
So recently I was lucky enough to get a few days of downtime, and just felt like dabbling a little and making something pretty! This was the outcome!! I wouldn’t call them finished… but sadly I don’t have time to take them any further.
I also did a small freelance job of the Interior of a Boeing 747-400 upper deck, but until that short film is released I am not going to post my renders! When the film comes out I will post a link to the film and the renders of the boeing!
ps. Production on Jack Splash has completed and should be released anytime soon *crosses fingers and hopes like hell*, its been long enough! Anyway once that gets launched I can finally show my work from that too… Yippee
So finally getting around to making a post regarding the results of the Animation Survey!
So anyway, after 44 responses to the survey! I submit the results for your reading pleasure!! I have only shown the highest two results in most cases!
Freelance or Full Time Employee? – 62% are full time employee’s
How long is your average working day?! – 8-10hrs = 50% and 10-14hrs = 31%
How often do you work weekends or public holidays?! – Occasionally = 50% and, All the time = 27%
Do you work by choice, or because your production schedule?! – By Choice = 62% and, By Production Schedule = 37%
Do you get paid for overtime work?! – No = 61% and, Only if it was Scheduled Work = 16%
Do you receive meals at work?! = No = 46% and, Only during a big deadline = 26%
So there you have it… interesting the results actually… summed up in a single sentence… ‘lots of people working pretty long hours, by choice and not getting paid for it!’
I am not trying to make an authoritative study, just simply hoping to find out what are the average work habits of people in the South African Animation Industry!
So please (if you work in South Africa) take a second and fill out the Survey, its only a few questions so it shouldn’t take to long!
If you have questions you would like to suggest please leave a comment below!
The year has been filled with all sorts of new 3D challenges, having being exposed to some totally mind blowing art (weather 3D or Illustrated) that has changed the way I view my role and my goals within the industry. I was challenged nearly every step of the way and had ‘my perceived personal weaknesses’ strengthened as I was given more and more challenging work with complete trust! My joining Shy the Sun came at the same time as my relocation from Jhb to CT and with the long hours we worked, everyone here became more than just a work colleague. I consider you all friends and hope to work or collaborate with you again!
All the best for the future!
