Long overdue, here’s a VFX and animation reel showing the work of many talented artists for Cbeebies show Iconicles, on which I was VFX Supervisor. The 26-episode series featured inventor and explorer Nat (Gavin Stenhouse), who has build a portal to another world called the Iconiscreen. Through the screen Nat is able to watch the adventures of the animals that live there, and invites some of the creatures to visit. All the work was done at Dinamo Productions, with my VFX team tasked with developing, animating and compositing the five CG creatures that had to speak and fully interact with our lead actor and the huge Iconicarium set. A mammoth task, we delivered 3,043 VFX shots for the series over a six month post-production period. Character and CG Iconiscreen build, rig and animation was done using Maya, with Photoshop for texturing, and all compositing was done using After Effects CS5. I put this reel together to show off the brilliant work done by the whole Dinamo CG and VFX team.

The series was produced by Alan Dewhurst, for Exec Producers Vanessa Chapman and Lucy Murphy at Create Media Ventures/Iconicles Ltd. Richard Bradley directed the live-action, and Dino Athanassiou directed the CG animation with Romano Marenghi supervising.