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August 29, 2014#

The Courtesans – Genius

Some time ago, I worked as VFX Supervisor for on a music video shoot for band The Courtesans; the job was to create a reasonably convincing “burning” effect as the four band members were tied to a post.

Director Brad Watson is a VFX artist in his own right and shaped the look of the wide fire shots; I only worked on the medium and closeup shots of the girls on fire seen towards the end of the video. To smooth things over and lend the music video more character, Brad added light leaks and film burns to everything which do a good job of selling the fire effects. I gather that band member Agnes also helped cut the video together. The video has an interesting message about body image.

The single “Genius” has shades of trip/hop sounds and reminds me of the song Dissolved Girl by Massive Attack.

The song itself can be bought on iTunes here for a trivial sum in full quality.

The band members themselves were friendly and personable and this made the shoot great fun.

July 31, 2014#

VFX Career Update

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May 6, 2014#

VFX Work Updates, Films on Amazon, More

Various updates from the past month or two, in aggregate, lots of things have happened.

I offer VFX Supervision services for film and television and recently worked with Director Michael Gilhooly, DOP David Wright and Good Shout on the film “The Listener” starring Dame Harriet Walter and Guy Henry among others. Much more information to come.

The short film GotGot by Director Dionne Edwards which I was VFX Artist on was shortlisted by ShootingPeople for Film Of The Month with 96 votes. One comment commends excellent use of “sfx”. I’m not sure if that means sound or the visual effects work but at least nobody noticed any defiencies in VFX which means I did my job of adding invisible VFX properly! Next time we will win.

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On the IndieFlix website who show my own films behind a paywall, my short film Collision, about Jupiter hitting Earth, is now the 18th most viewed “Horror” on @IndieFlix. 93% average viewer rating also. I encourage people to view all of my own film projects on IndieFlix – they have taken all of my Directed content so far.

collisionAlso of note, my Directing debut, Milk Paton: The Motion Picture(s) is now on Amazon in various formats. The films have been out for some time now, this is a delayed bucket list thing really! Click here to see it on Amazon VOD or Amazon DVD.

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No pictures for this one, but the feature film Scopia Produced by Steven Flynn and Directed by Christopher Butler premiered in Oxford Circus to cast/crew. Again, my role in the production was VFX. I had a positive reaction to the film…I am certain it’s going to be big and will get picked up when it does the film circuit.

Finally, in July/August last year I announced I was coming on board to Produce a short film called Ghost Puncher: Fistageddon. Predictably, I am also Animation Director and the action/comedy will be my feature film debut (animated and live action). Check out a character sheet below featuring the male and female lead. The film is being written by Amaury Bigeard, Corey Milne and myself.

Bjrz5MECQAAvY33Finally, I was invited (it’s invite only right now) to take part on Envato’s Microlancer website with my logo animation services, a niche in which I have worked for a long time. My Envato profile. See it here. It’s early days but I am hoping to expand upon my animation services and experience in order to raise new funds for own my film projects.

November 13, 2013#

Collision – My new short film

I just completed a new short film called Collision. It is a science fiction/horror about the planet Jupiter colliding with Earth starring Alan Wallace and Michelle Nyberg. Music was composed by Nitzan Sagie.

Collision | John Andrew Cameron from John Andrew Cameron on Vimeo.

August 14, 2013#

Star Trek Mini Project

I had a few hours spare over the past week or so. I threw together this Star Trek fan film which takes the form of a fake advert for a position aboard the Enterprise-D. Functional 3D was done using Element 3D by VideoCoPilot. Meshes were obtained from trekmeshes.ch. Voiceover by Mariah Sinclair. This video is based on Star Trek franchise, copyright Paramount. Please see notice at the end of the video.

This was a great learning project, you can see the video below the screenshots below.

NOTE: You can support the restoration of the Enterprise D bridge here.

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

Screenshot from a short film by John Andrew Cameron

April 27, 2013#

New Feature Film Credit

I recently wrapped some visual effects work for an upcoming feature. Got sent a screening DVD; always really fun to see your name in a credits-roll! I will post more details once the film finds a distributor.

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February 24, 2013#

Visual Effects Work

Visual Effects Showreel October 2013 | John Andrew Cameron from John Andrew Cameron on Vimeo.

I have worked on visual effects for feature films, television and short form projects. Much of my work is covered by NDA agreements but I have been able to compile a brief showreel above which shows my abilities.

VFX Services
- Rotoscoping
- Motion tracking
- Compositing
- 3D work
- Lighting changes
- Weather changes
- Chromakeying

Please contact me for more information.