From 2019 - 2020 I was lucky enough to be a part of BBC's / HBO's 'His Dark Materials'. I spent my time working in the Previs Department at Painting Practice, reading the script and helping turn the words into a 3D story. This included animating, cinematography, modelling and even post VFX. World creating from the script is a huge challenge and working closely with Framestore and the production designer helped achieve incredible results. 

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Initially my main focus was cleaning up MoCap for cycle animations used throughout the Previs department, as well creating original animations from scratch and reference, thus creating a library full of useful animations that could be grabbed at anytime and used within Cinema 4D. As my time at Painting Practice progressed and Season 2 really took off I was presented with more heavy environment based work. This included: VFX Compositing, tracking and rotoscoping plates, as well occasionally creating models from sets and real world spots. Which would often be matte painted by the incredible artist in house. 

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Pictured are some screenshots* from the trailers that I worked on from tracking, through the pipeline until Framestore received it and made the final version.

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Unfortunately a lot more of what I worked on has yet to be revealed, but shall be in due time! 

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*The work I did on each shot varies per screenshot, some I worked through the whole pipeline some I only partially helped with.