Title: Showreel of Joseph Pole, 2011 Duration: 1:10 VFX Supervisor: Joseph Pole Compositing: Joseph Pole Music: Aphex Twin Music Title: Polynomial-C

Recently a commercial I VFX Supervised and composited in After Effects won the 2011 Promax BDA world gold awardfor the Best Program Promotion in the Entertainment category.

Title: Show Opener - Tropfest 2010 Duration: 00:30 Client: Nine Network Australia Art Director: Joseph Pole 3D (Maya): Joshua Czikowski Compositing: Joseph Pole Music Title: Rather Lovely Thing

  I'm not sure why but I love the way this logo animation turned out. I struggled with it for ages. The 3D department  supplied plenty of good passes and it should have looked good but it just wasn't looking right. In fact, it just looked dull and typical. Then I decided to simplify the project and switched off a lot of the passes and started flicking through different blending modes with only 3 or 4 layers switched on. Suddenly this multicoloured juggernaut jumped out of the quagmire. I was thrilled even though I knew it was way too psychedelic to ever get approved. I tho

Here's an experimental project I made for fun and to test some of the new features in trapcode particular 2. It was fairly popular on vimeo and even recieved a complimentary comment from the legendary Peder Norrby - trapcode's creator. The general concept is trying to visualise what a sleeping Giant Squid's id might create if it heard the music of Aphex Twin. Yes, a worn out old genre I know. Giant squid are one of my favourite animals. Also, a favourite animal of the Sperm Whale as that's their primary source of food. The squid live about 1km below the surface of the ocean and tha

An example of how a VFX Supervisor can save money on a production

This is a bit off-topic but it is such an amazing pice of footage I think it's worth sharing. A visually stunning video of the earth seen from the International Space Station. At the time of writing this clip has been online for 4 days and has had 4.4 million views. Hope you enjoy it as much as i did! More details and full credits can be found on Michael König's Vimeo page here

  The Wacom Inkling records your strokes while you draw on a sketchbook or paper. The specially designed pen's location is recorded by a infrared and ultrasonic receiver with 2GB (or a couple of hundred drawings) of storage. That's the basics but there are plenty of other features - usb rechargeable batteries, 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity and refillable ink cartridges and so on.   Looks like Wacom have another revolution on their hands. I stopped using a mouse about 7 years ago because the Wacom tablet became more intuitive and faster for me and their tablets are

here's a quick one cntrl y – makes a new layer

Well this is a proud day for me! The show 'The Block' became Australia's highest rating show of the year during it's final episode last night with over 3 million viewers resulting in an audience share of 42.2% Visual Effects Supervising and Art Directing the launch campaign was an enormously challenging task but the results couldn't be better. The show launched 15% up from 2010 and ended on this high note. Needless to say there was a celebration this morning!