I’m currently working on CG animated backdrops for Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds live show! - below are some stills from the ‘Prequel’ sequence on the surface of Mars.
The designers from BBC Arabic requested some training at the Maxon UK offices in Bedfordshire, and Maxon asked me to be the tutor. We focused on materials, shaders, lighting and rendering. We didn’t have very much time to prepare, but with a combination of specific queries for the BBC team, some of their scene files as well as mine for examples, we had a constructive 2 day session, despite the sudden heatwave!
Maxon and I are considering doing some masterclasses where I dissect a few of my key images/scenes, and take a group through the processes involved in their creation, if you are interested in this, please drop me a line!
A couple of recent magazine covers for 2 Future US publications!
Yesterday, Apple finally announced the iPad tablet that people have been speculating about for several years. I have created a number of concepts based on the rumors and conjecture, amongst them is this one I created for MacFormat magazine back in March/April 09.
I just struck me as very close to the new iPad with keyboard dock!!?
Maybe a gift wrapped, full spec iPad with a not from Steve Jobs and Jonathon Ives would be in order!? 
Wishing a Merry Christmas, and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year to all! 
This image, or at least one like it has been in my mind for literally years now. Probably inspired by a couple of NASA’s space colony concepts of the 70’s, definitely by Ben Bova’s novel ‘Colony’, and obviously to an extent by Greg Bear’s ‘Eon and Clarke’s ‘Rama’ series!
Here is a link to a larger version
At any rate, after getting the newest version of Cinema 4D, with render instances, and speeded up sub poly displacent, I did a couple of tests with large amounts of trees, and then started to put this idea to the test.
Commissioned by MacLife magazine, this is the latest conceptual version of an imagined Apple Tablet, believed to be coming soon.
Sunday Times used one of my Apple Tablet concepts for the front page, as well as an insert of their InGear section on Sunday 16th of August.
My current project - 3DWorld asked me to create a tutorial on animating a spider for a future issue…
I was given the option to simply find a suitable ready made asset to animate, but instead decided to dive in to ZBrush. The final 2 million poly model was exported at a lower poly count to Cinema 4D, where the high poly displacement map was added, and the texturing and animation were then completed! - I’m just wrapping up the tutorial now, and when the issue goes live, I’ll also add the animation to the site - it’s looking creepy! 
Finally, after a few weeks without time or inspiration, I have finished my first full digital painting on the Wacom Cintiq. I am very pleased with the final result, although I am having some indecision on the background colour - either cool grey as here, or the original warm orange tones!
Watch this space for more paintings soon
