The Earth Needs More Elf Fans: Commercial

by Michael Cawood June 27, 2022 in 0 comments
Animation for a Rings of Power promo spot called The Earth Needs More Elf Fans

The Phoenix Gene

by Michael Cawood February 23, 2022 in 0 comments
VR Action Game / Experience and Book being developed for Quest 2, PCVR and PSVR 2.

The Wrong Rock

by Michael Cawood May 18, 2019 in 0 comments
Short Film

Lady and the Tramp

by Michael Cawood May 18, 2019 in 0 comments
Postvis for Feature Film

Bat Woman

by Michael Cawood March 30, 2019 in 0 comments
Animation for the CW TV Series

Flash

by Michael Cawood October 30, 2018 in 0 comments
Animation for the CW TV Series

Super Girl

by Michael Cawood October 30, 2018 in 0 comments
Animation for the CW TV Series

Doom Patrol

by Michael Cawood May 18, 2018 in 0 comments
Animation for the DC TV Series

Noelle

by Michael Cawood August 23, 2017 in 0 comments
Previs for the Feature Film

Devils, Angels & Dating

by Michael Cawood November 17, 2016 in 0 comments
In 2006 I started developing a short computer generated film called 'Devils, Angels and Dating'. This film was made with the internet in mind, fully aware of modern trends. I was inspired by modern dating trends and let those themes influence the core ideas behind the film.

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb – Postvis

by Michael Cawood October 26, 2015 in 0 comments
Postvis for a few sequences in Night at the Museum 3

Black Lightning

by Michael Cawood August 31, 2015 in 0 comments
Animation for the CW TV Series

Singapore Navy: Be Somebody

by Michael Cawood September 16, 2014 in 0 comments
This Television advert for the Singapore Navy was an interesting piece of work. The brief was; the buildings come to life and head out to sea to engage in battle with office themed projectiles, we then cut back to a man waking up in his office before we see the tag lines.

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

by Michael Cawood July 19, 2014 in 0 comments
VFX Animation for the Feature Film

Titans

by Michael Cawood January 21, 2014 in 0 comments
Animation for the DC TV Series

Shanghai Fortress

by Michael Cawood July 21, 2013 in 0 comments
Previs for the Feature Film

Seal Team

by Michael Cawood February 1, 2013 in 0 comments
Animation for the TV Series

Devils, Angels & Dating: Trailer

by Michael Cawood January 1, 2013 in 0 comments
During the development of 'Devils, Angels & Dating' I knew it was going to be very important to create a strong trailer to attract talent to work on the project. So the trailer was planned out early in the process. Storyboards from the film were cut together and a score was created so that we could plan around those shots getting done first. It was updated almost as often as the main film itself so that the team could see how it was coming along. It was completed about six months ahead of the completion of the final film.

Kameo: Thorn Beats Kameo

by Michael Cawood January 6, 2012 in 0 comments
There were plenty of animatics created that dug into the story elements of the game with characters that actually needed to have performances, but this was probably the first one that I made with full animation. Previous to this all the FMV work had been cheated comic book style (semi-animated) scenes or the evolve scenes that were more spectacle than performance...

Kameo: Title Screen

by Michael Cawood April 7, 2010 in 0 comments
This group shot plays under the Title/Start screen and shows off all the characters the player can play. It went through many iterations over the years...

Red vs Blue: Season 9

by Michael Cawood February 15, 2010 in 0 comments
Red vs Blue is a spin off comedy web series created in and around the Halo game universe. Much of the footage is captured from the game itself with voices added, and that's how it started. But nine seasons later it's developed into ...

Kameo: Intro

by Michael Cawood December 5, 2009 in 0 comments
Funnily enough this sequence was originally conceived for the purposes of a trailer. Nick and I (our concept artist and a past animator) both felt strongly that it was time we did an advert that eluded to the story of the game rather than just quick cuts of the gameplay. So after a meeting about what we wanted, I designed this idea of seeing mini pivotal scenes from throughout the story glimced briefly in the clouds before the camera sweeps down to the castle below to start showing off the characters in action. It was enormously effective and ...

Kameo: End of Game

by Michael Cawood April 6, 2009 in 0 comments
The magnum-opus of the entire game. This huge sequence had to top everything you'd seen, push the capabilities of Kameo beyond what you'd previously experienced, draw together numerous story threads, introduce a twist in the plot and give the player a satisfactory ending. It was developed towards the end of the game's development so was under pressure to be completed fast and there were other...

Kameo: Evolve Pummel Weed

by Michael Cawood January 6, 2008 in 0 comments
All the Evolve scenes were very complex pieces that required a lot of R&D, but they presented fantastic opportunities to do something imaginative. The only rules were that it had to start with the baby monster and it had to transform into the adult monster, ideally through a method that reflected their elemental theme. I've included an earlier version of this Evolve cinematic developed for the original Xbox. I later decided to upgrade all the FMVs to HD resolution at the same time as changing the characters to match their new Xbox 360 designs.

Tenkai Knights: Website Intro

by Michael Cawood December 10, 2007 in 0 comments
I'd worked with the client a couple of times before for some pitches, and this interactive website was one of the ones that got commissioned. I was able to work from home, which made for a nice change. There was a good number of ...

Panda Pander

by Michael Cawood June 28, 2007 in 0 comments
Panda Pander gathered a few million hits at Crackle before they changed their format. After Two Face Tabby I didn't want to spend so long on my next project so I did some one off exercises to flesh out my showreel while I spent a few months developing the pre-production material for Panda Pander (working title "Shelf Life").

Kameo: Evolve Flex

by Michael Cawood April 6, 2005 in 0 comments
Like all the evolve scenes Flex was a unique problem. He had to look like water and be completely malleable. So this required looking into water and water shaders, and some hand painted frames to blend between elements. There was another water themed scene, but I've not included it here because I only did a polish job on the effects and final look of it and the animation was done by Neil. Both scenes turned out pretty well though and I was lucky that they didn't change too much when the rest of the characters were being updated (spikes wouldn't have looked good on water!). Here's the animatic for the Flex scene.

Kameo: Evolve Rubble

by Michael Cawood April 6, 2005 in 0 comments
This was a scene that was initially worked on my my friend Neil, but when we decided to revamp all the cut-scenes for the Xbox 360 Neil had moved onto another team. So I polished up the first half without changing too much and started the second half again from scratch. The original version was done at a time when we were taking a lot of shortcuts as part of the style of the scenes, but we'd taken all the other scenes a lot further and it was time to do something equally impressive for this.

Kameo: Evolve Cloud Monster

by Michael Cawood April 6, 2005 in 0 comments
This was one of the more imaginative characters in the game. Unfortunately after this cut-scene was finished the character proved too hard technically to implement in the game and we were beginning to realize we didn't need so many characters so he got the chop. But this scene was made available to view as an unlock-able extra (along with the animatic below) and featured in some of the early trailers for the game.

Kameo: Theena Gives Book

by Michael Cawood April 7, 2004 in 0 comments
This deleted sequence started life like most of the others as an animatic. But at this stage storyboards and animatics were fairly new to the team and they liked them so much they thought we didn't really need to do any animation. This wasn't initially a popular decision with the animators but ...

Kameo: Evolve 40 Below

by Michael Cawood April 6, 2004 in 0 comments
I originally created the Snowman Evolve scene with a more snowball like theme but as the character designs all changed this scene had to be updated as well. All the characters were generally made to look more detailed and aggressive, mostly through the addition of bumpy surfaces and spikes. In this particular case I actually preferred the original 'Snowman' design and I think he lost his snowball qualities in the update. So you can see both the final and the original versions here, along with the animatic I originally story-boarded below.

Two Face Tabby

by Michael Cawood June 9, 1998 in 0 comments
This started with a mythical legend I researched that I have completely forgotten now. My old friend Scott helped me find it, he's good with things like that. The legend formed the basis for the story and provided the name of the beast: Fenrir. The I didn't make any attempt to retell the legend, I just borrowed the idea for the characters and formed my own story from them in a similar setting. My plan for this was ambitious so I never actually managed to completely finish it. Some of the scenes are lacking ...

Generalist Reel

by Michael Cawood September 25, 1990 in 0 comments
Animated Filmmaker, Michael Cawood's, generalist reel.

Effects Reel

by Michael Cawood January 25, 1990 in 0 comments
Michael Cawood's Effects Reel.