One of the first TV Spots I had a major role in, I did all the lighting / rendering and part of the shading as well.

Painful learning experience, many late nights, and I cringe when I watch it, but hey… it's on TV

Besides all the new features in 2.52, there are some major game changers still in progress in the render branch, the main ones being micropoly displacement, global illumination, multiple light bounces and mesh lights.

This is something to keep a close eye on!

You can always find daily build of blender over at graphicall.org

It's disgusting, I know.  But everyone has to start somewhere.

I worked as a shading / lighting artist on Free Willy 4, probably touching close to 70 full CG shots.  Was an insane learning curve for me because I had just started working at Blackginger and had only been on Houdini for a month or two.  Biggest technical growth was in terms of writing shaders and handling (what seemed to be at the time) massive renders.

I look back at this and laugh, I knew nothing back then.  And now I know just a little bit more than nothing

One of the first TV Spots I had a major role in, I did all the lighting / rendering and part of the shading as well.

Painful learning experience, many late nights, and I cringe when I watch it, but hey… it's on TV

It's an advert I worked on with the president for unicef, to be aired on MTV

All the design work was done by the president, they're an amazing studio.  I get inspired just walking into their creative space, great people too!

For me it was just a glorified excuse to learn after-effects.  Not difficult when coming from a Nuke / Houdini background