The Mavericks - Don't you ever get tired? (of hurting me)

Recorded in London at the Hammersmith Apollo sound check

DOP SHOW REEL (2014)

THE GRAND HOTEL BUDAPEST / Wes Anderson

Visual Effects Concept Artist

I worked directly with Wes Anderson, organising 100's of images and composites to convey the exact style he was going for, before the footage was given to LookFx, to ensure that his vision was met by them. I was also required to find out the feasibility of shots within the budget constraints. This was usually done with a bit of creative/out of the box thinking. 
(can we fix this bathing cap? can we shrink this forehead that seems too large because of the wide-angle lens? what can we do to make this building look a bit more like a prison?)
This is the second Film I have worked on with Wes, prior was Fantastic Mr Fox where I did roughly the same thing. plus a few more. 

LookFx article about working on Grand hotel Budapest

Excerpt from the article...

"Can you tell us more about your collaboration with Wes Anderson?
When we were deep into the project, the collaboration was really visually-based. Wes would send us accurate visual representation (which were created by me) of what he was looking for. Wes is a director who knows exactly what he wants and how to ask for it. His directing skills and involvement go past production and into post."

Unilever Documentary / Passion Pictures

Director of Photography

Bingo Player ft. Far East Movement 'Get Up' Director - Tim Hope

Second Camera, Effects Supervisor and Lead Roto 

Tim Hope has directed a new video for Bingo Players, the Dutch DJ and production duo. The track 'Get Up' features Far East Movement on vocals and is released by Ministry of Sound Recording Ltd. (The track was originally released in 2011 as an instrumental piece entitled ‘Rattle’).

In the video a gang is menacing residents on a London housing estate. One of their targets is an elderly lady who is feeding ducks in the park. The ducks witness the gang stealing her handbag and stoning another duck in the pond. Furious at these outrages, the ducks pursue them back into the estate where the gang gets more than they bargained for.

Director: Tim Hope
Second Camera, Effects Supervisor and Lead Roto: Ray Lewis

Fenton OM4G / passion pictures

Lead rotoscope artist

Passion pictures / London 

Worked as Lead rotoscope artist working with compositors to create a overblown version of a viral youtube video.

Mopar 75th / passion Pictures / dir. Chris Curtis

Rotoscope Artist

Mopar '75th' from Chris Curtis on Vimeo.

Celebrating 75 years of high-performance sweet cars from Chrysler in my latest 30 second commercial for their Anniversary. 

More cool cars with the ace Art Directing of Tim Marrs, who rocked his shizzle on my Audi’s ‘A day in the Life of an Audi Driver’ last year.  Using vintage and new footage from Mopar, the mighty Nick Hristou created a fast paced live action edit taking us through the years. Each scene was then transformed by Tim before passing it onto animation and compositing to bring all the textures and depth in the scenes to life.  

BBC Radio 1Xtra / Passion Pictures

Roto and clean up


BBC Radio 1Xtra / Passion Pictures from Ray Lewis on Vimeo.


Roto and clean up work for BBC Radio 1Xtra spot

Taste of London / Waitrose

Photo Work

images from the 2012 "taste of London"

commissioned by Waitrose.

WInter Olympics - I prefer the Early Stuff

Director of Photography



Chris Curtis and I shot a music video for the WInter Olympics:
built a wheelchair rig for the job.
shot on the new 5D, with kessler pocket dolly and smallHD monitor.

Director: Chris Curtis
DOP: Ray Lewis

WInter Olympics / Rock and Roll Retirement Home

Director of Photography



Chris Curtis and I shot a music video for the WInter Olympics:
built a wheelchair rig for the job.
shot on the new 5D, with kessler pocket dolly and smallHD monitor.
look for it this week. this is the teaser.

Director: Chris Curtis
DOP: Ray Lewis

Noel Fielding Luxury Comedy

Composite and Roto

"Coming to E4 in 2012, the co-creator of The Mighty Boosh is back and this time he's taken it to another level. Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy is a psychedelic character based comedy show half filmed and half animated, with music provided by Kasabian's Sergio Pizzorno.

Along with animator/director Nigel Coan (The Mighty Boosh, Bunny and the Bull), Fielding has created a joyful, charming explosion of a TV show that is in the tradition of Spike Milligan and Kenny Everett but completely modern at the same time.

The show is like biting into an aurora borealis sandwich...like Salvador Dali and Mick Jagger recreating The Jungle Book using toast... Warm and strange and packed with jokes, Luxury Comedy will change the way you feel about television and your own hands forever."

Lost of composite / green screen / roto

Production House: Not 2 Scale

director: Nigel Coan

Red Bull Music Academy / Pete Candyland / Passion Pictures

Rotoscope

Paris: Questlove’s Afro-Picks from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.

Berlin: Hansa – Das Studio der Mauerstadt from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.

New York: Five Out Of Five from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.

Just finished up a job at passion.

a promo music festival short for Red Bull Music Academy.

Roto'd live footage for placement of CG items.

Mocha Pro and Nuke.

Video waiting...

Director: Pete Candyland

Production House: Passion Pictures

Audi / Chris Curtis / Passion Pictures

Rotoscope

3D opening spot for UEFA Championship League.

Roto'd practical footage to composite into CG landscape.

Director: Chris Hemming

Production: Passion Pictures

Ambitious about Autism

Stills work on Treehouse campaign for Autism.

Also DoP on the Film by Rachel Meyrick.

Frankenweenie / Storyboard Animation

Started this week on storyboard animation for the Tim Burton film "Frankenweenie"

Director / Tim Burton

Producer / Alison Abbate

Black Swan / Post Work

• Rotoscoping dancer out of the opening sequence for floor removal.
• Designed and manipulated thousands of images in Club sequence to be projected subliminally at 24fps during the nightclub scene in "Black Swan"

Director / Darren Aronofsky

Treehouse / Autism Documentary

I was asked to shoot stills of the children at Treehouse for a documentary about autism.

Director / Bucy McDonald

Editor / Rachel Meyrick

Wedding / Jen Lane

Fantastic Mr. Fox / "Making of" Book

Shot stills during the 2 year production of the fantastic Mr Fox.

later was published by Rizzoli in the making of book.

85% of the images in the book are mine. photo Credit