So I finally finished it! It was almost done for the longest time, but now everything on the reel is finally out of NDA.  The reel is comprised solely of my time at Blur, though there’s quite a bit of stuff I can’t put in there yet. Special thanks to my friends at Blur! Enjoy!

Portfolio Page

Happy New Year by the way! I can’t believe 2008 has come and passed already.  I’ve learned a lot over the past year, and can’t wait to see what 2009 brings. I especially look forward to meeting my son, Keian Russell Farnsworth, whom I should be meeting any day now! Can’t freakin’ wait!

I hope you all have a great year!

Well, I know my site is new and I haven’t updated it in a while, so here goes a new post!  After a year and 3 or so months at Blur I have moved on.  I’ve learned a lot at Blur and am so grateful to have worked there, but alas all things must come to an end. I’m now working for Uncharted Territory on the new Roland Emmerich film, 2012. I can’t give away any of the details, but to put it lightly, this movie is gonna be a VFX Extravaganza, and I’m extremely excited to be a part of it.  Luckily it’s not that far from Blur, so I won’t have to move or anything. We’re actually borrowing some space on the Sony Lot in Culver City… it’s a pretty nice office!

I might be adding my demo reel pretty soon. I have to take some stuff out of the reel before I can make it public, or I can just wait until Fable 2 comes out. I’ll probably just wait unless people start bugging me to put something up. We’ll see.  Also, I’ll be replacing the banner for the site in a few minutes… not sure what I”m gonna throw up there quite yet.

One last thing to leave you with… I didn’t work on this particular cinematic, but thought I’d share some more of Blur’s awesome work with you!:  Halo Wars

I just added two scripts to the Script page, and will be adding more later. I added Fume Source Manager, and MatCleaner.  The Fume source manager has saved me SOOOOO much time in setting up fume sims off of reactor sims where we have lots of objects that need to emit smoke and such.  The MatCleaner is really helpful in cleaning out the materials in a scene. I usually don’t need textures on anything but my fx, so this saves a lot of time clearing out materials / assign fx matte to all the objects in a scene (including hidden objects)

I also added Tabula Rasa and Ironman to the Portfolio section… =)

Wow, this website thing is coming along a lot quicker and easier than I had imagined. I’ve done this stuff before, but it seems a lot easier this time around.

Anyways, I added two links in the portfolio page, and will add more tomorrow after I get some sleep. I added Tomb Raider Underworld, and Halo Wars for now.  I’ll add Marvel Kids: Ironman and and Tabula Rasa and whatever else I can tomorrow.

Hey all,

Thanks for visiting my new site.  I’ll try to keep it updated as much as humanly possible, but I get pretty busy at work (as an FX Artist / Technical Director)  …just so you know, using the term TD is just a fancy way of saying that my job is more technically related than most other positions in the field, this term is used pretty vaguely, and varies place to place…

Anywho, thanks again for visiting!
Ian