I was very excited to collaborate with filmmaker Phil Duncan last year in creating a teaser trailer for his upcoming series - Picturing Wildlife. Phil approached me with his idea of creating a series examining the history of the human depiction of animals, all the way from ancient cave paintings to smartphone-powered augmented reality. As a preliminary step to realising his vision, Phil approached me to create a teaser trailer featuring a fly-through of historical and modern animal imagery.

It was a challenging but highly rewarding project, featuring a breadth of motion graphics techniques. One focus of attention on the project was taking old paintings and posters and reconstructing them into 2.5D projections which could be flown through with a virtual camera. This brought a new dimension of life to these classic images, emphasising the new perspective that Phil was going to be presenting in his series.

It was also a fun opportunity to apply some compositing techniques including integration and colour correction in certain scenes, including the cave paintings animation towards the start the sequence.

With a filmmaking background, Phil was already very visually-orientated and brought a very well defined script to the table. At the onset of a project, a clear vision of what the client wants, in turn, streamlines the preproduction process making it easier for me to visualise the end-product. Overall, working with Phil on this project was a blast and I am looking forward to future collaborations.