With well over a decade's experience in CG and a BAFTA for Best VFX, Darren manages a team of 7 experts who cover the M&E portfolio and interface with key customers, helping them ensure their pipelines are ready for tomorrow's challenges.
See how Dentsu London used an iPad to light paint truly magical images that start out as 3D motion graphics sequences.
Congratulations must go to the Dublin Popcap team for scooping the BAFTA for best Game in its Mobile & Handheld category, for the HD port of the pachinko sytle Peggle.
If proof was ever needed that budget isn't everything, then this Mint Julep video for Why Don't We provides it. With an incredible atmosphere and costumes to match, the use of 30 disposable cameras to create a lo-fi bullet time camera effect strikes the perfect emotional note.
Time magazine takes a look at the tools used on this year's Best VFX Oscar nominees, from Rise of the Planet of the Apes to Hugo
Red Bull's Canimation competition saw hundreds of animators from both the commercial & student communities compete...with some incredible results
Oscar-nominated Irish studio Brown Bag Films has been commissioned to make The Happy Hugglemonsters - a new CG series for Disney Junior
What better way to start 2012 by looking back at the best VFX commercials of last year, as posted by the kind folks at fxguide.com
After several years away from the sci-fi genre, Lock-Out is the first of two films co-written and produced by Luc Besson to hit cinemas next year and looks like a fantastic mix of Escape from New York with a healthy dash of Die Hard. Here's the first peek...
As a contest, pitching The Mill's runners head-to-head against the considerable talent of its Flame team might seem like a bit of an unfair contest...but, as you, can see from The Mill's Christmas videos, the runners more than held their own.