Gavin Hoffman

Only found out about this recently but my student film won best short film at Ecologico International Film Festival.  Quote from review:  Taurus for best short film in complicit - Gavin Hoffman (Ireland, 2013 , 4 ')  for the following reasons : Dazzling ! Through an indirect narrative (a man in psychoanalytic therapy ), the film explores , in an unusual way , the guilt of humanity that lives in the shadow of technology and progress at the expense of the humanity that will " bake " in the sun the third world.

Complicit won the best animation at The Silk Road Film Festival here in Dublin yesterday.   http://iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4287025&tpl=archnews&force=1 The prize is a trip to Beirut, Lebanon to attend the NDU International Film Festival which Complicit will compete in :-)

I worked on the film with Brown Bag films using Maya.  The film, titled Anya, is directed by Damian O'Connor and is a promotional film for the charity "To Russia with Love".  I was primarily modelling, texturing and lighting.  Release date for the completed film is in May.

Me and my team's film is now at long last live on the internet for all to see:

These are the mentions I could find that my student film has got on the internet so far: http://karamafestival.org/new/index.php/karama-2013/blog-2/animation-v-art/249-complicit http://issuu.com/designassociates/docs/gff_2013_web_v1/103 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=171281732896872&story_fbid=710087855682921 http://prod5.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=15996~02371316-c32d-484f-9694-fd5124fdc5bf&moboff=1& http://www.slocartoon.net/?main=cartoons/cartoon&cartoon_id=47276 http://www.filmambiente.com/index.php/short-film-competition-310.html http://ecologicofilmfestival.it/selezioni.php http://www.tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/12133-2nd-afghan-human-rights-film-festival-to-be-held-in-kabul-city http://iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4287025&tpl=archnews&force=1 http://silkroadfilmfestival.com/ http://athensanimfest.eu/en/competition/student-competition/10 http://marl.mb.ca/content/filmfestival http:...

I needed some VFX for my showreel so I created this animation of a humanoid dancing in my front room.  This was mainly a lighting and compositing demonstration so to save time I used an old character model I created with the animation coming from a motion capture file.  Matchmoving was done by me using Boujou.  This was my first real project using Nuke which I picked up surprisingly quickly!  The full animation can be seen on my showreel (found on the portfolio page!).