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BAFTA nomination for #WondersOfTheUniverse

Aside | | Paul Greer

 

OK, I’ve had a cup of tea and a slice of cake so I’m slightly calmer now, I’ll explain a bit more fully:
I work at BDH making CGI for television, which can involve making all sorts of things, from visualizing thought to animating bouncing sex toys.

Last year we were lucky enough to work on a miraculous programme called “Wonders of the Universe“, hosted by Professor Brian Cox, and produced by the BBC.

For someone who grew up on Carl Sagan, Star Trek and Doctor Who it was a very special experience for me personally.

I was largely responsible for star surfaces, coronal loops and solar flares.

So now the work we did has been nominated for a Visual Effects award at the Television Craft BAFTAs, alongside Great Expectations, Inside the Human Body, and… DOCTOR WHO.
So today couldn’t really get more awesome.

(There is 15 minute edit of just the work we did here, with music by Timo Baker (full screen, head phones on please)):

and a lovely playlist of clips from the actual series here:

in case you are unfamiliar with it’s magic.

Did I mention I just had cake?

Have 75 years of television made us smarter?

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“A curious phenomenon is occurring each Wednesday. The BBC is receiving a lot of love. Well, to be specific, David Attenborough’s current series is. Frozen Planet is so beautifully put together, so moving, so informative, that even those cynical journalists who routinely abuse the BBC on behalf of their paymasters for the simple reason their products are in direct competition with it are eagerly embracing the brilliance of this programme.”

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Frozen Planet

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This is Frozen Planet, which I was working for a while there..
Should be going out on BBC One soon (Oct?).
I was taking and interpreting data from NASA and commercial satellite scans and turning them into accurate, explanatory yet aesthetically pleasing globe views.
I was assisted in the task by the excellent Jessica Lee.
There is one at the front of this trailer there, but it has been compressed to **** on the YouTubes, there are at least another 6 million shades of snow in there on the full HD version.
(All the animals are real, btw.)

A Cosmological Fantasia

Video | | Paul Greer

Very proud to say I am a small part of the awesomeness that is the BDH graphics team on the BBC’s Prof. Brian Cox, doe-eyed-lens-flare-fest, “Wonders of the Universe”.

I made particular contributions to star surfaces and coronal loops.

Here is an edit of all the graphics we produced for the series, with a soundtrack by Timo Baker.

This comes with a caution, as face melting may occur.

EDIT: Looks like they had to take the edit down, but you can still see the trailer for the show here.

Vivaldi’s La Primavera

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BDH produced a series of films to accompany the performace of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by the Emerald Ensemble.

This is the Largo from Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV </wiki/Ryom_Verzeichnis> 269, “La primavera” (Spring).

Vivaldi wrote sonnets for each concerto in the Four Seasons. For this piece he wrote:

“And now, in the pleasant, flowery meadow, to the soft murmur of leaves and plants, the goatherd sleeps with his faithful dog at his side.”

Each musical element clearly illustrates this scene and the shapes in the animation aims to reflect that.

http://www.emeraldensemble.co.uk/

this links is about the piece in general

http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/baroqueperiod/ss/fourseasons.htm