Friday, December 4th, AD2009:
After an amazing two and a half year experience working on Desp, Wild Things, Avatar and Nanny McPhee’s Mr E, here it concludes (at least for now) my collaboration with Framestore.
(click on the image to check website and trailer)
To anyone I’ve been working with over these years, mahalo! -aldo
I lately leafed through some old sketchbooks, sort of reordered a bunch of sketches, and added some colour:
Friday, November 13th, AD2009:
Last day on James Cameron’s Avatar as Lead Animator for Framestore.
Nice experience, pretty intense. The movie will be out in cinemas on the 17th December 2009 worldwide. Check out the new UK trailer.
I went on Sunday to see Turner & the Masters at the Tate Britain.
The exhibition goes through Turner’s career comparing some of his most significant masterpieces to other paintings and painters of the time. Artists he admired, challenged, took inspiration from. Just impressive.
“This unforgettable show places beautiful masterpieces by Canaletto, Rubens, Rembrandt and Titian next to some of JMW Turner’s most dramatic paintings. It shines light on a lesser-known side of the British Romantic painter: his obsession to prove he was just as good, if not better, than the old masters who he so admired”
On the way home I took a couple of pictures:
