Daniele Bigi: December 2007

year: 2007
project type: live action movie
directed by:Andrew Adamson
production: Walt Disney and Walden Media
release date in USA : may 2007
my contribution: Lead Lighting TD /Character TD (for Framestore-CFC)
credited as: CG lead
official web site: Narnia
photo gallery on IMDB: Click

note:
I'm currently working on Aslan, the lion. I'm doing Lighting and Fur dynamic on around 15 shots.

Read here a cgchannel production focus article about Narnia
Take a look here, The guardian has published a video about Aslan and the digital techniques used in Framestore to make him alive.

My News

19/Gen/2009 Visual Effect Society (VES) announces nominees for 7th annual VES awards. The Chronicle of Narnia Prince Caspian is nominates in the short list in the category: Oustanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Pictures. here the full list

11/Dec/2008 Today I received a very good news... Delgo is DONE, after many years of independent production the animated feature film will be release in the theaters the 12 of December 2008. I'm happy for all the people involved in the project. I have very good memories of my time spent in Atlanta woking on this project. Good luck Marc ;)

13/Sept/2008 Today is my first day at MPC London (Moving Picture Company). I'm exited to start a new adventure! If you want to know more about the company take a look here.
I'm currently working as Lighting TD / Environment TD in the film department on a major new project: The Wolfman here some info and pictures at imdb.

12/Sept/2008 Today is my last day in Framestore, after more then a year working in the VFX and Animation department is time to move on for me. Thanks to all me collegues and friends, has been a very important experience!

01/may/2008 I have started working in Framestore Animation dep. on a new 3D animated feature film: The tale of Despereux the movie is produced by Universal Studio, here the official movie web site. You can watch the trailer in the video section. I'm working mainly as Lighting TD.

19/june/2008 It was a pleasure to attend the premier of Narnia:Prince Caspian at the O2 arena in London. The premiere was the biggest in UK, around 10.000 people watched the movie. Well done to all my friends and colleagues at Framestore. A big compliment! to all the TDs and artists at MPC and Scanline for the fantastic job. The fluid dynamic used to make the river god was simply amazing! Here you can read an article about the premier.

04/june/2008 Narnia: Prince Caspian Cgchannel Production Focus article.

22/May/2008 Here an nice article about Narnia:Prince Caspian on VFX world.

20/May/2008 Framestore-CFC has become Framestore here the new web-site and new Logo at www.framestore.com

16/Apr/2008 Today is my last day on Narnia: Prince Caspian, the work for the lighters is over. It was a fantastic experience thanks to my friends and smart colleagues in the VFX of Framestore-CFC. I'm looking forward to see the movie in the theater. Now is time for a long vacation, I will be back to work on the next project in 4 weeks.

26/Feb/2008 Oscar for Best Visual Effect goes to Golden Compass. Congratulation to all my colleagues in Framestore-cfc.

25/Feb/2008 BAFTA winner short film The Pearce Sister now on Atomfilms.

05/Dev/2007 Narnia: Prince Caspian trailer is now ONLINE :) Well done! to all my colleagues in Framestore - CFC. HD version as well!.

27/Nov/2007 today in the private Framestore's cinema I have seen the first trailer of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Well done guys! As far as I know in USA they are screening the trailer before The Golden Compass. Pretty soon the trailer will be available for everyone in internet. I will post the link here as soon as possible.

05/Nov/2007 my interview on dada.net, an Italian web site about cartoon and animation etc. link

25/Oct/2007 CGI_ITA_London Google group is open. I opened this group to make the communication easer between the Italian CGI community in London. SOO... Are you Italian? Are you a London resident? Are you working in the VFX, 3d cartoon, video game field? OK if yes you maybe want to join my Google group. Here the link. (to join you need a gmail or a Google account)

xx/Sep/2007 I joined Framestore CFC studio. I'm really happy to start a new adventure. Framestore CFC is one of the leading VFX company in the world. If you want find out more about it go the the website.

30/Aug/2007 Today is a sad day... It is my last working day in Aardman animation studio. It has been very difficult for me to take this decision but for personal reasons I have to leave Bristol and the studio. After more than one year working in Aardman I can say that this has been a fantastic experience, not only because Aardman is one of the best animation studio in the world but especially because I met so many lovely and talented guys that now I can call friends. I enjoyed so much working in the studio that I'm sure one day I will try to join again. A big thanks to all my friends in Aardman. I miss youuuuu guys!!!!!.
See you bye ;) (you all know how I would say that!).

29/Aug/2007 My new contriution for 2D Artist magazine. If you want to download the PDF distributed by ZooPublishing here the link: Advice for Aspiring Artists.

1/Aug/2007 I have contributed to 2D Artist magazine distributed by ZooPublishing, in the section Advice for Aspiring Artists. Here the link.

23/June/2007 Pete Doctor (director of PIXAR Monster Inc.) come to visit our CGI department in Bristol. He talked about: his new short film in development, Toy Story 3, the current relationship between Pixar and Disney etc etc...

xx/June/2007 The Pearce Sister, Jury's Special Award at Annecy Festival. This short film is simply amazing, it has been in production in our CG dept. for a long long time... The look of it, is unique, it shows a mix between 2d and 3d animation. I'm sure it will win many other prizes around the globe. Compliments to all my friends and colleagues in Aardman for the fantastic job!!!

xx/June/2007 Today I started to work on Chop Socky Chooks (CSC), a Cartoon Network/Aardman 3D animated TV series project. I'm working on the title sequence as a compositor. The project is in production at C.O.R.E animation. It is a pleasure to work with the director Sergio Delfino.

15/May/2007 I had the pleasure to partecipate to a Richard Williams' class in Bristol. It was funny, inspiring and terribly interesting.

12/May/2007 I have been invited to the University of Alghero (Italy) to talk about 3D lighting and compositing.
Here all the info about the conference.

1/May/2007 Today I started test and work with Pixar Photorealitic RenderMan For Maya Pro (Beta). Goodbye RAT and Goodbye Mental Ray :)

1/Mar/2007 Today I have started to work on STARMAN, an Aardman short film, in development in our CGI department.

20/Feb/2007 WILDSCREEN Annecy 2007 official selected.

16/Feb/2007 Today I have had a chance to work on a shot for Creature Comfort (Aardman's stop motion TV series).

1/Feb/2007 Today has been a fantastic day! Peter Lord asked me to colour a few characters for an upcoming Aardman feature film.

22/Jan/2007 Aardman's Wild Screen has been released in Stash media DVD n°28. I have worked on compositing and shading.

20/Jan/2007 Today is my first day in the feature film department here in Aardman, I will be here for 2 weeks working on a 2d digital painting.

18/jan/2007 Today I have finished GOLD_FISH! a series of advs for the USAmarket entirely made here in Aardman directed by Stefan Marjoram (check out a nice article about one of his works )

30/jun/2006 Today it´s been my first working day at Aardman Animation Studio. http://www.aardman.com/

1/aug/2006
3DTOTAL Front Page Excellent Award for Angel Attack!
Angle Attack! Making of publish on 2d Artist Magazine.

20/may/2006 Some of my works now are on CGTalk Portfolio if you like you can leave comments in the guestbook section.

13/may/2006 SuperEva, an information portal, has pubblished an article about the Exibition dedicated to PIXAR: 20 years of animation (the article has been written by my brother Emanuele Bigi and me). The article is in Italian, click here

07/may/2006 I have visited the exibition PIXAR: 20 years of animation in London, it´s really great! One of the things has impressed me most is the incredible 3D Toy Story zoetrope. I couldn´t belive to my eyes!

13/apr/2006 After more than 3 years I have decided to update my website.

Daniele Bigi

Narnia: Prince Caspian

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