Practical effects in the Force Awakens

To be honest, practical effects are really out of date and look bad.

It's limited to the physical mechanical limits and it could never transform the accurate creature skin slide and physicality on screen.


The worst shot in the Revenant? The shot where they have a dead bear stuffy on Leo and people turned it over.

The Revenant

Such a poetic and beautiful film.


The opening scenes(Leo with his wife and son, the camera pan slowly from water flowing to forest) reminds of Tarkovsky's aesthetic.

This film is about Death, how insignificant it can be and how a person in giangatic nature environment faces his life comes to an end.

I loved the last shot where Leo stares into camera.

43rd Annie award nominees

I am lucky enough to be nominated for Annie award this year.

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Live Action Production
The Revenant – The Bear -
Animation Supervisor: Matthew Shumway, Lead Digital Artist: Adrian Millington, Digital Artist: Blaine Toderian, Digital Artist: Alexander Poei, Digital Artist: Kai-Hua Lan


Whole list: Here

War Craft trailer is here

Some work to be proud of

Jungle book trailer

It doesn't look good. I don't know why people are thinking the CGI animal look great. They are sub-par. Now the bear in Revenant doesn't look so bad anymore compare to this

Revenant

now I can even appreciate more for what we did on Life of pi. We struggled for more than 8month on the bear in Revenant. People are still rebuilding the whole bear shot by shot, crazy.

WarCraft wrapped and staff job

It was a fun ride after all. Great to work with Bill Westenhofer again. Hal is awesome, gave me a lot of freedom and creative choices. Production team bring a lot of fun to the whole team. Best experience at ILM for sure. I guess thats why I turned into staff now.