News Date: 18 August 2010
In Sweden now after working at Ghost VFX. I originally signed on for 3 months that turned into 4 then 5 and now it's 6 months since I started there. It's been fun and I would love to come back and work there again, there is some really talented and kind people working there. I thought I would try something a bit different, so I will start lecturing at my old University, Interactive Academy - School of Visual Effects for 1 month in Digital Compositing and Commercial Production. It's going to be nice to see old classmates and teachers again and come back to Sweden.
Date: 19 February 2010
I'm back from my big trip around the world and I don't regret it for one second. It was simply amazing and I would recommend it to everyone to do it once in your lifetime. I did howerer miss working with film, it's weird right, longing for your job when you are on vacation? But now I'm back with loads of motivation and inspiration to do new things.
Date: 10 July 2009
I have made the hard decision to quit my job at Prime Focus London and go on the trip of my life. It felt like the right time to do it, I have been working at PFL for a long time and I have learned a lot, I just want to see what else is out there and search for new challenges. I first fly to LA on October 1st and then roadtripping around CA, NV, AZ and Mexico for a month, then over to New Zealand for a month going with the Kiwi buses around both islands. Then I fly to Brisbane for a roadtrip to the great barrier reef and then down to celebrate New Years in Sydney. After that we head to Bangkok, Bali, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. I will be back in Sweden at the beginning of February.
Date: 28 March 2009
It's been a lot of broadcast work since my last update, shows for Discovery Channel, History Channel and a Promo for Madonna. I have also done tests for a big feature film witch I unfortunately can't get into detail about. Christoffer has left PFL and is moving to Vancouver to work as a TD for our sister company Frantic Films. It's sad that he is leaving but I wish him the best of luck in Canada and I hope I will have the opportunity to work with him again.
Date: 05 January 2009
Happy New Year! I went to the club Paramount for my new years party, it's situated on the top three floors in the Centre Point building overlooking all of London. It was so much fun and definitely the best place to be on New Years! On the job front I have been working on The Maiden Heist for Frantic Films and me and Theo went to supervise a shoot for History Channel called History of America, it was great fun and a really good experience.
Date: 20 June 2008
A lot has happened since the last time I updated the site, I have finished many projects, my friend Christoffer from my old school is now a compositor here at PFL, the Film VFX department have changed offices to across the street to 64 Dean Street and we are now beta testers for Eyeon Generation. It's a nice application that is similar to Assimilate Scratch and it's going to play a big part in our next feature film, Nine Miles Down. It will start next week whilst I still have some shots left on The Tournament so it's going to be a busy summer. You can find more information about Generation here: at Eyeon and an article at Fxguide.com
Date: 12 November 2007
Three new interns are here at Prime starting out exactly as I did, I hope they are going to like it here. I finished two new Promos, one for a band called Make model that you can find over here at Bens site. And one for Jack Penate that you can see here at Youtube. Next project starts on Wednesday and will be a feature film called "The Garden of Eden", based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway starring Jack Huston, Mena Suvari and Caterina Murino.
Date: 19 October 2007
I have now finished the feature film "Agent Crush", and I went to the BAFTAs for the crew screening. Not really my kind of film, but I hope some people will enjoy it. They got a really good cast though with Neve Campbell, Ioan Gruffudd and Sir Roger Moore. I also worked with Ben again on his promo for singer/songwriter Paddy Casey. We had many long nights sitting after work, working on it, but it was great fun and I enjoyed it. I think its amazing what he can do with such a small budged.
Date: 12 September 2007
It's been an hectic couple of weeks with finishing up "Tales of The Riverbank" and working extra with Ben on his new promo. It is my first feature film and I ended up working on 52 shots, doing everything from derig to compositing 3D. The hardest part was that it was fur everywhere, so derig and keying got very tricky, but when you do succeed with a really tricky derig on fur, you learn a lot from it. The same day I got finished with Tales I got offered to work on Agent Crush witch is a movie similar to Team America, but looks a lot better. I didn't get any time to rest between the movies but Agent Crush is so easy without fur :)
Date: 23 July 2007
Our whole pipeline both in India and here in London is switching over to Fusion, I'm not to fond of Fusion the little I have tried it, but once I get used to it it will be fine. The new version 5.2 looks promising though with Python scripting, Vector Motion Blur and the workflow improvements. I have also been reading about LUA with is the programming language in Fusion, I have done some minor scripts and I'm looking forward to learn more about it.
Date: 20 July 2007
I'm still working on "Tales of the Riverbank" that has its deadline on the 31st of August. I have also been working extra on a promo for the UK band Foals directed by Ben Rollason and it`s now rolling on MTV. You can find it here. After a lot of problems with the flat in West Hampstead I'm moving to a new flat at Tower Bridge road.
Date: 3 June 2007
As you can see further down on the site I got my first VFX job at Prime Focus London so im moving from my hometown Kalmar to West Hampstead in London.
Date: 11 June 2007
I had a great time in London, both at work and outside of work, you just cant have a dull moment in that town. Now I'm back in Sweden for my graduation but I'm not staying for long...
Date: 31 March 2007
I got an internship at Prime Focus in London so I'm moving on Monday to Hampstead and I will be back in Sweden at the beginning of June. Its Clear, VTR, Blue and The Hive that has merged to a new VFX facility at 37 Dean Street in Soho.
Date: 25 Ferbruary 2007
Updated the design to a more simple design and added my new CV.
Date: 29 December 2006
I'm back in Sweden after my internship at Eight VFX in Los Angeles. I'm in my new dorm room and I already miss LA.
Sorcerer's Apprentice For 4 months I have been working as Lead Compositor on Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimers, Socerer's Apprentice. It was great to work with so many amazing and talented people at Ghost.
I got offered to work at Ghost in Copenhagen on a 3 month contract. Ghost is one of the largest companies in Scandinavia with credits like "Harry Potter: Order of The Phoenix" "Quantum of Solace" "Drag Me To Hell" and "Hellboy 2". I'm going to be working on some various feature films and commercials, focusing on 3D-compositing. I have a really good feeling about it and I have never been to Copenhagen before so that's going to be a new experience.
I worked on Madonnas concert DVD called "Madonna: Sticky & Sweet Tour" It's going to be released sometime in the end of the year. The project was headed up by Ian Baker in Smoke and it was a pleasure to work with him again. It was a huge amount of shots but we got them done in time.
We worked with our sister company Frantic Films on The Maiden Heist and the London office was responsible for the car sequence. I also did some shots for the drama Shadows In The Sun.
Feature Films:
The Maiden Heist - Trailer Director: Peter Hewitt Cast: Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, William H. Macy, Marcia Gay Harden and Wynn Everett
Story: A comedy centered on three museum security guards who devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are transferred to another museum.
Shadows In The Sun - Trailer Director: David Rocksavage Cast: Jean Simmons, James Wilby, Jamie Dornan, Ophelia Lovibond and Clemency Burton-Hill
Story: The film follows the story of a man who visits his mother on the Norfolk coast and finds himself concerned with her relationship with a mysterious young man
It's been a long time since I updated my portfolio but now I got a new domain and webhost so I thought it's time to show some projects I have been working on. Here are some selected work:
Feature Films:
Franklyn Director: Gerald McMorrow Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Eva Green, Sam Riley and Bernard Hill
Story: Franklyn follows four intertwining stories, three of which takes place in contemporary London and the fourth takes place in Meanwhile City, a parallel fantasy environment. In Meanwhile City, atheist vigilante Jonathan Preest (Ryan Phillippe) fights against the various religious presences. Ultimately, his path crosses with three others (Eva Green, Sam Riley, Bernard Hill) from London.
The Tournament Director: Scott Mann Cast: Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder, Ving Rhames and Craig Conway
Story: Every ten years, a group of assassins descends on an unsuspecting town to carry out a battle royale tournament. A group of millionaires is following the tournament on CCTV cameras and betting money on the assassins. And in the middle of everything an innocent priest (Robert Carlyle) gets drawn into the tournament.
I have been at Prime Focus for 7 months now if you count the 3 months when I did my internship. Its my first vfx related job and I have learned a lot. It has been hectic with all the deadlines and learning Fusion at the same time but I have been working with some amazing people that made it fun. Here are some of the work I have done so far, both as freelance and at Prime Focus.
Feature Films:
The Garden of Eden Director: John Irvin: Cast: Jack Huston, Mena Suvari, Richard E Grant and Caterina Murino
Agent Crush Director: Sean Robinson: Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Neve Campbell, Sir Roger Moore and Brian Cox
Tales of the Riverbank Director: John Henderson Cast: Stephen Fry, Peter Serafinowicz and Amanda Hart
Prime Focus London
This is the logo for Prime Focus London and a new temporary site is up with reels and info about a few projects.
There was a release BBQ in Cannes last week but there is going to be an official release here in London as well on July 4th.
So I think its time for me to give you a little insight on my new company.
Prime Focus Limited is the name of the Indian company that bought four London based companies (Clear, VTR, The Hive and Blue)
and merged them into one. Three of the companies are now under the same roof at 37 Dean Street and one company is
across the street at 64 Dean Street. I work at the fourth floor at 37 Dean Street with another ~160 employees
in the same building. We have about 25 CGI seats (Maya and XSI) 8 Fusion seats, 12 Inferno/Flame/Smoke 2007
suites, 3 Telecine suites, 2 2K Thomson Spirits, a 4K Thomson Spirit, a Thomson Specter Virtual DataCine,
an Autodesk Lustre 2007 Incinerator, a Northlight digital film mastering scanner and an Arri Laser digital
film recorder. We also have a motion graphics department, and a mattepainting department.
We are specializing in DI and VFX for Feature Film, Commercials and Promos whilst our offices across the street
is more focused on editing and broadcast with 24 AVIDs, 2 DS Nitris suites, 3 5.1 sound dubbing suites with
voiceover record facilities and a SD / HD Mastergrade suite.
As you know I’m working in the Feature Film department and when I got here for my internship they had just finished working on “28 Weeks Later”. And now we are working on “Tales of the Riverbank” witch is a family movie directed by John Henderson.
I’m back in London after my graduation from the Interactive Academy in Eksjö where I took a diploma in Digital Animation and Compositing. The guys at Prime Focus really liked my work so they offered me a Junior Compositor job. I'm really exited because its my first real job and I'm going to work first and foremost with Feature Film but also help out with Commercials and Promos. Prime Focus London is not the official name of the company just yet so I will give you more information when it’s released to the public.
