Killers in Eden Happy Feet Saved by Dolphins Turtles Echidna Airways
Killers in Eden
This is a small selection of the 22 shots Greg produced and animated for the ABC
documentary “Killers in Eden”
The whales were all modelled , textured and animated by Greg and rigged and
composited by Al Ferguson and Mark Kennedy. The above water leap was animated
by Greg and composited by Dean Ervick and Al Ferguson.
These animations were Greg’s first ever attempt at 3D computer animation for a television or film
production. Click on the images to see the animation video clips.
Happy Feet
Greg conceptualised, story-boarded and developed the complex Killer whale orca
action sequence for the Warner Bros / Kennedy Miller Mitchel Film “Happy Feet”.
He based the action concepts on examples of authentic orca behaviour. Being
sentient animals that seem to have their own genuine language and dialects,
Greg suggested that the orcas in the film only use real orca vocalisations
rather than be given human voices.
Greg also orchestrated the crowd positions of thousands of penguins for hundreds
of drama and dance shots in HappyFeet.
Echidna Airways
Greg developed these images in 1999 for a proposed 3D children’s animation series based on his Kid’s Book “Echidna Airways: the great Wungle Bungle Aerial Expedition”. It has not yet been shown to a network .
Software and technology have moved on considerably since then and Greg is
updating this project which has highly relevant environmental conservation
themes and rip roaring action!
Saved by Dolphins
Recent work includes building, animating and compositing great white and mako
sharks and bottlenose dolphins for the Bigwave/BBC documentary “Saved by dolphins”.
Greg and Al produced over 35 photorealistic HD CGI shots for the show, mixing real and live dophins in the same frame, all
for a shoestring budget.
Greg modelled, textured and animated all the sharks and dolphins. Compositing by
Greg and Al Ferguson. Al set up the character rigging for the sharks and
dolphins.
Marine documentary
Wild Things supervised an international team of visual effects artists & animators for the theatrical release documentary “Turtle The Incredible Journey”
We created over one hundred visual effects shots for the film, using a variety of techniques including photo-real CGI turtles, sharks, & carefully match-moved live-action composites. All of our visual effects shots fit seamlessly into the film. Watch a small vfx sample here here
