Julian Laing
Animator & VFX Artist

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Julian Laing          Showreel 2008

Breakdown of my work

Opening shot

Cutscene animation for State of Emergency 2 on PS2

Running bot

Animated the run cycle for a short demo for a proposed game for Outerlight

Subsequent shots from The Ship

In-Game Visual Effects including weapons muzzle flashes, cartoon style character VFX, the depression cloud, some environmental VFX, the paddle steamer and the piranha attack

Guy with acid sprayed in his face

Idea for weapon for sequel game to The Ship. Animated both characters and produced the VFX

 

 

Guys jumping into boat and following shots -

Cutscene animations for State of Emergency 2

Walk cycles

Displaying my walk cycle for the female character from SOE2 and my walk cycle for the shielded Enforcers in SOE2

 

 

Indian Brave attacking beetles

I animated the beetles. From the PS2 title Brave: The Search For Spirit Dancer

Female Indian imploring “be careful!”

A sample from one of the cutscenes that I animated for Brave

 

 

I-race (horse racing) final broadcast footage

The pre-race footage is motion captured data which I cleaned up, the race footage shows my own racing animations

I-race work-in-progress footage

Showing from close range my animated galloping horse and jockey followed by some further motion capture work

 

 

Traditional animated footage

Traditional drawn animation coloured using Toonz

 

 

Final shot

Further animation for a SOE2 cutscene.