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New showreel to kick off the year 💥

It’s been about 7 years since my last one, so this was definitely overdue. This reel pulls together a mix of professional work and passion projects from the last decade.

Production/Direction on most of the projects: @runwiththegoldenwolf

All 2DFX: @KenseiThomas

Email: Kenseithomas@hotmail.com

Expedition 33 X Avatar

I stumbled across Sylvans animation and instantly thought what if the Curator had Avatar the last airbender type powers. This gave birth to this animation, I feel like this is an homage to a bunch of inspirations I’ve consumed this year including demonslayer for that famous Tanjiro beheading Rui fight .

Had a lot of fun animating this and thanks so much for the collab opportunity and Oli for the sound collab!

2DFX & Comp : @kenseithomas
3D animation : @sylvan_kim
Sound design & Music Comp : @oli.audio

I saw this beautiful 3D animation by @ave_espelita and knew I had to add some Cel animated FX.

Luckily I had some downtime in between freelancing and really enjoyed working on this, itwas a lot of fun to explore and experiment a bit again and also do some new comp FX.

If any 3D animators out there have personal projects they’d like FX added to, I’d love to do more of these kinds of collabs. This one was such a joy feel free to reach out and pitch me!

Music from Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

#2DFX #collab #frieren #fxanimation #vfxartist #personalproject

All stage breakdown in the 2DFX on this firey flag piece I made for slashtrade.

I worked on everything in this shot, big thanks to @joiceesketch for having me and art directing !

A piece that I made and comped for a short for Slashtrade.

Happy to have worked@joiceesketch on this who was the director! We may have something in the works together also 👀. Also heres some elden ring music for those who are tarnished 😂

Last shot from the Monkeyking film, I forgot to post from @netflix @runwiththegoldenwolf .

I did a bunch of speed-lines here and some detail brush finesse passes once again a small job and part of a huge talented team!

CREDITS:

PRODUCTION
Executive Creative Director: Ingi Erlingsson
Creative Director: Ewen Stenhouse
Supervising Producer: Tan Jones
Supervising Producer: Dotti Sinnott
Production Manager: Lucy Caetano
Production Assistant: Danielle Bordelon
Talent Director: Henry Purrington

DESIGN
Design: Mikhail Kalinin
Design: Simon Leclerc
Design: Yujia Wang
Colour Script: Dan Burgess, Lap Pun Cheung
Layouts: Gaia Lamiot

ANIMATION
Animation Lead: Maxime Delalande
Animation: Charles Badiller
Animation: Stephanie Mercier
Animation: Diego Porral
Animation: Mourad Elias Seddiki
Animation: Kensei Thomas
Animation: Alain Vu
Animation: Tim Whiting

Animation Clean Up: Jennifer Belobi
Animation Clean Up: Eric Bradford
Animation Clean Up: Thomas Eide
Animation Clean Up: Myra Hild
Animation Clean Up: Mila Obelleiro

Technical Director / Compositing Lead: Ian Pinder
Compositing: Stefan Ahmad
Compositing: Karl Fekete
Compositing: Gabrielle Locre
Compositing: Laurence Parsons
Compositing: Thomas Purrington
Compositing: John Taylor

An old shot for Monkeyking on @netflix that I worked on with @runwiththegoldenwolf but haven’t posted yet. It was part of a massive team so glad I had the opportunity to add a finesse painterly pass and some brush trail lines and a bunch of details to this!

CREDITS:

PRODUCTION
Executive Creative Director: Ingi Erlingsson
Creative Director: Ewen Stenhouse
Supervising Producer: Tan Jones
Supervising Producer: Dotti Sinnott
Production Manager: Lucy Caetano
Production Assistant: Danielle Bordelon
Talent Director: Henry Purrington

DESIGN
Design: Mikhail Kalinin
Design: Simon Leclerc
Design: Yujia Wang
Colour Script: Dan Burgess, Lap Pun Cheung
Layouts: Gaia Lamiot

ANIMATION
Animation Lead: Maxime Delalande
Animation: Charles Badiller
Animation: Stephanie Mercier
Animation: Diego Porral
Animation: Mourad Elias Seddiki
Animation: Kensei Thomas
Animation: Alain Vu
Animation: Tim Whiting

Animation Clean Up: Jennifer Belobi
Animation Clean Up: Eric Bradford
Animation Clean Up: Thomas Eide
Animation Clean Up: Myra Hild
Animation Clean Up: Mila Obelleiro

Technical Director / Compositing Lead: Ian Pinder
Compositing: Stefan Ahmad
Compositing: Karl Fekete
Compositing: Gabrielle Locre
Compositing: Laurence Parsons
Compositing: Thomas Purrington
Compositing: John Taylor

Started as a 2DFX explosion test and kinda spiraled into this. Got some really fun ideas for colour and comp if I ever go back to finish it—but honestly, learned loads just making it (and through other bits I’ve been on), so I might just leave it here.

Let me know if you’d be keen to see a cleaned-up version!

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