“I don’t belong here”

I’d done a few shots for that TV movie at Lexhag, London, as a Junior Compositor.

The three leads from Whitechapel I and II are set to return in 2012 in another outing.

Following the massive success of the first two runs, Whitechapel will return in 2012 with a new six-part series.
The intrepid team tracked down a blood-thirsty Jack the Ripper copycat in series one and faced off against the gangster brutality of a new generation of Krays in series two. But now they are now faced with a whole new set of challenges…

The new series will find DI Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones), DS Miles (Phil Davis) and Edward Buchan (Steve Pemberton) spreading their investigations beyond the boundaries of Whitechapel, as they peel back the layers of some of the East End’s most gruesome history.

The East End will once again provide fertile ground for murder, body-snatching, poisoning and grisly discoveries, as the team’s present day investigations echo three hundred years of crimes committed in the city’s darkest recesses.

Diuen que aquest 2012 tot anirà molt pitjor.
Fins i tot n’hi ha que diuen que al desembre s’acabarà el món.
Tal com us ho dic. S’ha acabat, c’est fini, bye bye; xim pum!

Què voleu que us digui? A mi no m’agrada aquest discurs derrotista,
aquest maleït llenguatge que dia rere dia dinamita qualsevol esperança de futur.
No vull seguir patint pel passat i començar un nou any patint i amb ganes de que s’acabi.
Avui dic prou, i decideixo fer un gir i anar definitivament contracorrent d’aquest sentiment general.
Digue’m inconscient, que no toco de peus a terra o que soc estrany perquè no soc dels qui esperen que algú els hi solucioni la vida.

Avui em comprometo més que mai a tirar endavant amb els meus propis mitjans els projectes. Peti qui peti.
Avui em refermo en el compromís de “fer” en comptes de parlar,
i de seguir ajudant altres persones a tirar endavant els seus projectes en la mesura de les meves possibilitats.
Ara o mai lluitaré per les meves idees com si el món no s’hagués d’acabar el 2012 i aquest hagués de ser un gran any.
El 2012 serà el pitjor any de la història de la humanitat?
Doncs mala sort, si és així tots hi haurem de conviure.

Així que si ets dels qui prefereixen queixar-se de tot i no moure ni un dit, tu mateix, queixa’t; però surt del mig.
Si pel contrari creus en les teves idees i ho vols intentar: apunta’t al carro.
Gira la teva vida ara mateix i ajuda els altres a fer-ho compartint aquest missatge.

I si s’acaba el món el proper desembre, que ens trobi ben drets i no asseguts al sofà traient-nos els mocs.

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They say that during 2012 everything will get much worse
There are even those who say that in December, the world will end
Just like that. Finished, c’est fini, bye-bye, that’s all folks!

What can I tell you, I don’t like this defeatist talk,
this damned language that day after day dynamites any hope for the future.
I don’t want to continue suffering the past and begin a New Year worrying and hoping it ends.
Today, I say, enough is enough, and I decide to turn around and purposefully walk against the current of this general feeling.
Tell me I have no conscience, that I don’t have my feet firmly on the ground, or that I am odd for not being one of those who expects others to find a solution to my problems.

Today, I make a firm commitment to move my projects forward on my own. Whatever the consequences.
Today I reaffirm my commitment to ‘do’ rather than just talk about it,
and to continue helping others within my capabilities to move forward their projects.
Now and forever I shall fight for my plans as if the world weren’t to end in 2012 and this was a great year.
Will 2012 be the worst year in the history of humanity?
Well, bad luck. If so, we will all live through it together.

So, if you are one of those who prefer to complain about everything and not lift a finger, carry on complaining;
But get out of my way.
If, however, you believe in your ideas and want to try them, join me.
Turn your life around right now, and help others to do the same sharing this message.

And if the world does end next December, let it find us standing up and not sitting down on the sofa feeling sorry for ourselves

per/by Pep Torres

MPC completed visual effects for Warner Bros. Pictures’ ‘Batman Begins’, directed by Christopher Nolan. ‘Batman Begins’ explores the origins of the Batman legend and the Dark Knight’s emergence as a force for good in Gotham.
In the wake of his parents’ murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. He returns to Gotham and unveils his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses his strength, intellect and an array of high tech deceptions to fight the sinister forces that threaten the city.

With the help of ALICE, MPC’s proprietary crowd system, the team created a swarm of digital bats. In order to ensure that they behaved in a realistic way, the R and D team further developed the system to ensure the bats would fly, take off, land and generally behave realistically when reacting to outside stimuli.

The first sequence starring MPC’s artificially intelligent bats is a flash-back to young Bruce Wayne’s first harrowing meeting with bats after accidentally falling into an old, boarded-up well. This sequence required highly specific bat animation with the creatures squeezing through a narrow gap in the wall of the now-dry well, and swarming in and around Bruce before finally escaping. A large number of hand-animated bats were used to support ALICE in bringing the action onto the screen.

For MPC’s second major sequence, Bruce Wayne, under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug imagines his worst nightmare — swarms of bats flying towards him. A combination of crowd sim and hand-animated bats created photo-real, believable bats clawing their way out of a chest flying around him, settling on him, and finally disappearing.”
The next MPC-generated bat sequence occurs when Wayne discovers the bat cave. A LIDAR scan of the cave enabled the crowd simulation software to place thousands of bats around the cave, each roosting in their natural environment. They are awakened by Wayne when he brings light into the dark caves and explode off the walls, diving, dodging and screeching at the intruder before calming as they become used to his presence. In a powerful climatic sequence they form a “whirling tornado” of bats.

The last MPC bat sequence occurs as Batman summons bats to assist him in escape from Arkham Asylum. Upon his call, a swarm of bats swoop into the courtyard, rushing through a big gate, breaking windows, racing down corridors and climbing a steep stairwell to reach Batman. From there, they dive down into the center of a circular stairwell, creating a living vortex enabling Batman to make his getaway by gliding down four stories shielded by the bats around him. To create this effect, a LIDAR scan of the exterior and interior of the building was used to position the bats perfectly into the set environment. Due to the nature of the intricate on-set lighting, each light, whether in or out of frame, had to be reflected in the 3D lighting, with believable colour timings, falloffs and anamorphic lens-flares. Added to this, MPC’s roto-scoping team was called upon to roto dozens of policemen, many tiers of stairwells and a multitude of wrought-iron banisters into the shot.

All in all, a very small team of creative talent spent just under a year to create Batman’s mega-chiropteraen army.

An honor to work on this movie seems better than the first one (what I must say …), spectacular CG, epic Greek mythology (Kratos. Makhai, Cerberus, Chimera…) and adrenaline faster than ever.

A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus-the demigod son of Zeus-is attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman and the sole parent to his 10-year old son, Helius. Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods and the Titans. Dangerously weakened by humanity’s lack of devotion, the gods are losing control of the imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos, father of the long-ruling brothers Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. The triumvirate had overthrown their powerful father long ago, leaving him to rot in the gloomy abyss of Tartarus, a dungeon that lies deep within the cavernous underworld. Perseus cannot ignore his true calling when Hades, along with Zeus’ godly son, Ares (Edgar Ramírez), switch loyalty and make a deal with Kronos to capture Zeus. The Titans’ strength grows stronger as Zeus’ remaining godly powers are siphoned, and hell is unleashed on earth. Enlisting the help of the warrior Queen Andromeda (Rosamund Pike), Poseidon’s demigod son, Argenor (Toby Kebbell), and fallen god Hephaestus (Bill Nighy), Perseus bravely embarks on a treacherous quest into the underworld to rescue Zeus, overthrow the Titans and save mankind.

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Clash of the Titans

Kraken

Scorpion Battle