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Aug 072015
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Aug 052015
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Two circles for nice round composition.
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Jul 212015
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No sooner is the Bodies in Motion III shoot finished, than Bodies in Motion IV marches into the calendar. In fact, we just finished a big weekend shoot with eleven talented artists, each with unique skills, power and grace on aerial apparatus. I have just started looking through the 15,000 images and there are going to be some gems.
All of the photography you see coming through the site lately is in preparation for the official launch of the Bodies in Motion Project website coming in September. The site will collect all the photos and motion sequences that I have shot over the last five years and make them available as a resource for artists, designers, and agencies looking for photography that showcases the amazing capabilities and forms of the human figure. Be sure to sign up to the newsletter for announcements!
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Jul 092015
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… and he said he was injured so he couldn’t jump as high as normal.
Jun 272015
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The full Bodies-in-Motion library is coming very soon to bodiesinmotion.photo join the mailing list for updates…
Jun 202015
our digital horse in action
I recently kicked off a series of pastblast posts digging up old but interesting projects that I didn’t have time to write about when they were happening. One of the most interesting and enjoyable visual effects projects that I have worked on is Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of War Horse.
The story follows Joey, a farm horse in rural England, onto the battlefields of World War I. Being a war story, you can imagine there are a few upsets along the way, and Joey inevitably finds himself in very dangerous circumstances – circumstances too dangerous in fact for real ‘horse actors’. Cue our digital Joey.
CREATING THE DIGITAL JOEY
Our digital horse stretching his legs
May 262015
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I recently completed a tutorial for 3dArtist magazine about the making of this facial anatomy ecorche. In the article I go through the steps used to create the digital sculpture in ZBrush and about the importance of understanding facial anatomy and why it helps improve portraiture. The tutorial is in issue 81 of the magazine.
May 262015
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Bodies in Motion is back! I’ve just finished an amazing shoot and I’m starting to pull the best images from the session. There was an amazing collection of talent on this shoot and I am looking forward to sharing all the images. Speaking of sharing, the Bodies in Motion Project will be getting its own dedicated website very soon. If you haven’t already, subscribe to the mailing list for updates. I will be needing beta testers in the next month!
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May 262015
Our Megafaces project takes home a gold cube at the ADC 94th Annual Awards in Miami. If you haven’t seen the Megafaces facade in action, there’s a nice little intro video for the project on the awards page here.
May 112015
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My tongue-in-cheek, neoclassical Hercules XIII tablet stand was recently featured in the Great Beauty section of Living Etc magazine. I am proud to see my small but stout Hercules holding his own against the towering bust of Adonis. He is small but he’s far more fun than any of the other pieces in the spread.
Apr 062015
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Mar 052015
Here is an écorché study of a drawing from the spectacular and controversial Viennese artist Egon Schiele. Schiele, long one of my favorites, is known for his hugely expressive figurative work – dynamic, contorted, deformed figures. Despite the effortless fluidity of his lines, the anatomy teacher in me can’t help but appreciate the underlying structure and coherence of his figure. My écorché study imposes plausible anatomical construction atop his piece and reveals that, despite his apparent looseness of his style, there is a deep understanding of anatomy at work. I can see this in all his drawings and paintings; every distorted, stylized figure actually fits together like an well-designed anatomical puzzle.