Updated my reel

I finally got around to updating my reel this weekend with some of my work on Tron.

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XING Wins an EMMY!

So, Its been a very long time since I have put anything up here. What can I say, life gets very busy when you are working on TRON: Legacy. Thanks to my wonderful wife and two boys, I am able to make it through each day, week, month, year!

So, my senior film, slash project, slash short CG film from BYU Animation just was awarded a student Emmy, and so I thought I would say congrats to everyone who helped on that film! What an accomplishment. Here is a link to the news article:

XING WINS AN EMMY

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Figure Drawing

So every Wed. night at Digital Domain, we have a live figure drawing session that is open to the artists here. Its been a while since I have actively drawn in a setting like that, so i decided to take advantage of an opportunity like that. here are some of the drawings that I produced from last nights session. it is so nice to draw again, and not so nice to feel how rusty I am after all my training. I guess thats how it goes when you forget to exercise your skills: they go rusty on ya! Thanks for taking a peek. Ciao!

Link To XING Wiki

I am back from the Philippines and am spending a lot of time as Head of Lighting on BYU's current film "XING". You are welcome to take a look at the lighting that has been done for our film. CLICK HERE for that page.

As always, I welcome your comments.

All of the renders you see below are shots that I have lit and are passed off. Don't get too alarmed that one of the characters is white. What you see here is not the final composite. The final composite will have ghosty FX on the white character. Hopefully that final look will be able to show soon. So stay tuned!

XING Lighitng

Online Portfolio

I have created an online portfolio that will make it easier for viewing and quicker critique. Just click on the title "Online Portfolio". Feel free to take a look. I would appreciate any comments and critique.

New Reel

Demo Reel from Alan Bradshaw on Vimeo.

Most recent reel

Color is not just value

So I was watching a video about color today. In it I was taught that color should not just be thought about in terms of value only. But colors are defined in real life by their temperature. Further, for example, as colors loose value, they actually gain in saturation. And the opposite is true: as a color gains in value, it looses in saturation. Its a fun concept. So, I tried it out in a very quick and dirty painting. I stayed mostly within the red to yellow palette. But I tried to apply this new knowledge about color. It has really opened my mind to a greater understanding of the relationship that color & light share together. Enjoy this one!