I'm 30 in two week's time and feeling slightly ambivalent about it. I don't really feel as if I've achieved everything I wanted to do (not by a long shot!) but then again I've gone in completely different directions to those I'd planned and wouldn't change a bit of it. My dream was to have directed a film by this stage in my career but I think that opportunity has come and gone. Nonetheless, I'm working as a compositor, doing stuff I wouldn't be able to do in London with similar experience, and there's always something new to challenge me. It's not the heady world of international movie-making but it's keeping me happy and distracted. I'm sure I'll get my usual three-year itch soon and feel the need to move on to something else.

At the moment, I'm working on the second series of O Na! Y Morgans, to be broadcast later this year on S4C. I didn't have much to do with the first series but because of the success of the CG turkey in the Christmas Special episode , Apollo have decided to include a CG pet to the family: a hamster called Danedd. We've got a very short production schedule (as ever) but the work is very challenging and there's a huge number of shots to get through for each episode. I'll have a showreel posted when we finish all the work and the first episode is transmitted.

Once The Morgans is out the way, I'll be moving on to the preschool series Happy Valley (called Fair Valley up until a week ago and I'm sure it'll change again soon). I've spent the last year doing 3D and compositing, so I felt I needed a change of scene and elected to return to doing the 3D landscape for the series first seen in the pilot last year. I'll have quite a bit of catching up to do, going back to using a piece of software I haven't even touched since last summer, but it'll be good to take everything I've learned from Con Passionate and Cymru Am Byth and build an even better landscape than I did before.

In the meantime, I've posted a few more pieces on my recent work, with new showreels of the Con Passionate special effects showing the before and after of a couple of scenes. Cymru Am Byth is another good showreel with plenty of CG and live action compositing. Ah! I like a good composite...