This was a project I animated on back at Pixomondo. As a fan of Alan Moore's graphic novel, I have high hopes that the show will deliver as a follow-up.
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Well this is exciting. Avengers: Endgame has opened stronger than even the most optimistic forecasts predicted, and could now become the highest grossing film of all time if the trends hold. I worked on the film back in 2017 and saw it for the first time this weekend. The end battle shots that showed absolute carnage and chaos were the action shots I had been waiting to see on a big screen since I first read them in the comic-books as a teenager. To have had a hand in the film was a true honor, and I am pleased beyond words to see people around this big blue marble react so strongly to it. The sky is the limit for this film at the box office, so stay tuned...
I have created all-new PDFs of my Animation and Previs+Layout resumes (and corresponding Recommendations and Credit Lists), and made them available on the Resume page. An updated version of my complete and unabridged resume can also be found on that page.
With my time on "The Orville" and "Star Trek: Discovery" now complete at Pixomondo, I am now taking time off to regroup and refocus on pursuing my next project. I thoroughly enjoyed helping to shape those two sci-fi franchises, and I am grateful to have met so many wonderful and talented people there. Our visualization/layout department took this team picture on my last day:
After debuting its season premiere on December 30th, we are now already three episodes into Season Two of "The Orville," Fox's sci-fi "dramedy" on which I have been working as Visualization Lead for over seven months. It has been my longest stretch on a project in a leadership capacity, and I have immense pride in the work the team at Pixomondo has been able to accomplish this season. Episodes air every Thursday at 9PM PST on Fox, and my first episode of the season is coming up on January 17th! I hope you will tune in and share your thoughts online. You can view the project page for it on my website here. Although I have never written a yearly write-up post on this blog, 2018 was a banner year for me in terms of projects, so I thought I would take a moment to briefly mention them here:
May: Avengers: Infinity War, Deadpool 2, Solo mashup poster August: The Predator October: Venom December: Aquaman, Season Two of "The Orville" (I began work on this show starting with the fourth episode, which airs 1/17/19) Avengers: Infinity War was a great way to reconnect with the franchise that kicked off my film career, and the team I joined was remarkably talented. It was a humbling reminder that if you don't feel at least a little self-doubt every day at your job, you might not be trying hard enough to do great things. The mix of hard work, fun, and fitness that the team achieved on the project was possibly its most impressive aspect, and the fact that it was incredibly successful at the box office was the icing on the cake. It and Deadpool 2 remain the gold standard for me in terms of the right balance to strike for overall team harmony. Deadpool 2 had a very similar team spirit to Avengers: Infinity War, but with a smaller, more intimate team. Our output was enormous by the end, and I attribute the calm and light-hearded mood of our workdays to the great job our previs/postvis supervisor did with setting a low-stress tone from day one. Seeing the footage come in for our postvis made us laugh every day, and it was the first time I've animated a body ripping apart in a slow-motion explosion, so there's that. I completed my months-long pet project of a Big Trouble in Little Corellia mashup poster a few weeks after Solo: A Star Wars Story hit theaters, and the level of support it received was very nice to experience. Due to copyright law, I am not allowed to sell copies of it, but it will forever be on the internet for people to enjoy. The Predator was a great experience with Shane Black and his team at the Fox Studios lot, but I switched off the project early on once production left the country, and many revisions were made after that, resulting in a finished product that I nearly didn't recognize. Despite this, there's still nothing like working on a film lot to me, and I regained a new respect for the original Predator as we watched, and rewatched the original to analyze what made it the classic it remains today. Venom and Aquaman were brief stints for me, but I enjoyed animating these comic book characters. The level of commercial success each enjoyed in theaters was a big surprise to me, but it serves as even more evidence that passionate comic fans remain a box office force to be reckoned with. Finally, "The Orville" had its season two premiere on December 30th, and as of this writing I am still working on layout for upcoming episodes. I am very excited to hear how next week's episode is received, because that was the one where my time on the series as Previsualization and Layout Lead began. The episode airs next Thursday, January 17th, at 9PM PST on Fox. It airs the same night as the Season Two premiere of "Star Trek: Discovery," which I also did previs on, but that write-up is yet to come... Here's to making 2019 a year filled with valuable experiences, useful skills, exciting projects, and lots of joy. Thanks for reading. To read more about my time on the project, visit the project page for it here. Congratulations to all those on the team who helped keep it afloat.
I was only on working on the project less than a week, I would still like to congratulate those who helped it cross the finish line. It was fun to work on another film based on the comics I read as a kid, although I never would have dreamed I would animate those symbiote suits years later. Always leave room for life to surprise you! More at my project page for the film here.Hot off the presses, you can see my latest digital painting in the artwork gallery. Here's a sneak peek:
Variety has the story . It is only the fourth film in history to reach this achievement.
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