Exciting times ahead! I've now finished production on my two new short films, Blank Canvas and The Cursed Mirror, the premiere of which will be on Saturday 31st July. I'll be showing them in HD in Chapter Cinema 1 so hopefully everything will be finished by then! We currently finishing up the VFX for The Cursed Mirror and the sound of grading for both. I'll be updating both projects' articles over the next few weeks and I'm committed to putting them online straight away. In this day and age, people are getting far more exposure for their films on the web so I've decided to avoid the expensive and lengthy festivals route. That said, if a festival is happy to show the film despite its web premiere then I'll be happy to submit it.

The full length short of Reign of Death has also be posted on Youtube so I've updated the Reign article with the movie and VFX breakdown. Work is continuing on the feature film version, although nothing is concrete. As soon as there is news, I'll post it. In fact, the release of Reign on the web after an eight month delay to show it in a handful of costly festivals is what convinced me to put my own shorts online. There have been a number of VFX shorts getting considerable high profile viral exposure this past year and I hope that both Reign and both my films can join their ranks.

Grandpa in my Pocket Series 3 starts later this week for a four week shoot. It's only fourteen episodes this time but will hopefully be a relaxed experience. Although I'm no longer at Dinamo, I'm still overseeing the production and will be based there for all of September. Due to various efficiencies, there are no new CG props or FX-heavy sequences so things will be lighter than the last series. It's a shame that it couldn't get a full swan song but I have a feeling we'll be moving onto bigger and better things soon.

I've also spent the last few weeks working on a number of projects, including another Ryan Andrews short called Jerusalem and a series called Indian Doctor for Rondo Media. Indian Doctor stars Sanjeev Bhaskar and Mark Williams and is currently shooting in South Wales. I'll be providing a small bit of VFX support to create matte paintings of the Welsh valleys as they appeared in the 1960's. Jerusalem is Ryan's Digital Shorts film about the painter William Blake and it stars Ray Winstone in the lead role. In a shameless display of namedropping, here is my photo of me and Ray on set (very lovely chap who was really enthusiastic about motion capture following his role in Beowulf). To temper this, here is a photo of me riding the boiler plate of a steam train on the set of Indian Doctor. Simple pleasures...