Info | News
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2008.03.19 | Back in Los Angeles:
Actually we have been back for a few weeks now but you know how it is
and I'm already on a new project at Imageworks called G-Force.
Some Disney family movie scheduled for release in 2009. It's about a specially trained squad of guinea pigs that take on an evil billionaire who wants to take over the world.
Sounds kinda silly doesn't it? But it's kinda cute, reminds me a lot of Disney's Chip N Dale. It's live-action so that's a nice change after all the full CG movies.
2007.10.10 | Beowulf is
Done!:
We just finished the last few shots this morning. Finally! I’m happy to be
done, it was a monstrous amount of work and over all it turned out pretty good.
I hope you enjoy it when you see it on November 16th. Also the
official website has been updated: http://www.beowulfmovie.com/. And now it’s time for a
long vacation…
2007.09.13 | New Beowulf
TV Spot and website:
There is a new Beowulf TV spot available for download on the official movie
site.
The site has also been updated with more stuff, have a look: http://www.beowulfmovie.com/.
2007.07.26 | Beowulf
Trailer is out:
Watch it here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/beowulf/.
This is more like a teaser, there is another trailer coming soon. Enjoy
2007.07.25 | First
Beowulf Images:
If you haven’t seen them yet: http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/.
We just finished the first trailer and it should be out soon.
2006.08.27 | Updated
Link section:
Just a quick clean up to the link section, removed dead links and added some
new ones.
2006.07.21 | Monster
House concept design and theater release:
Finally Monster House was released to theater’s today, I hope you enjoy
it as much as I did working on it. Also there is a website with some Monster
House concept designs you should check out: http://www.froghatstudios.com/mh/mh.html
2006.05.17 | Monster
House is done!:
After 10 months of hard work Monster House is done and the renderfarm,
aka 'the cue', is still smoking. It was a fun show to work on,
it's actually kind of sad that it came to an end. We had a great team of
artists busting though all the shots in record time. As soon
as the shots where ready for lighting they where lit and comped
together faster then they could prepare new ones. What a ride! Of course
there also is a new trailer, if you haven't seen it yet, check it out at www.apple.com
and make sure to mark July 21th in you calender to go see the movie in a theater near you! But
enough about Monster House, there is already new work lined up. On the next
show, Beowulf
another all CG feature film by Robert Zemeckis, I'll
be leading one of the Lighting/Compositing TD Teams into battle. It's a big
show and it will keep me busy until the end of 2007. There is lots of work to
be done and I'm really excited to start on it. But first it's time for some
vacation so stay tuned and don't forget, your family is more important then
your job!
2005.11.11 | Monster
House trailer is online:
The Monster House trailer is online. We spend the last couple of weeks getting
it ready and out the door, it is now online on apple.com, check it out here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/monster_house/
2005.10.16 | Long time
no news:
Time to give you an update on what’s going on in my world. Well
what’s going on with Tenebrae2, pretty much the same, Charles and I are super
busy with jobs and it may take a while until we have some more time to work on
it again, but it’s not dead just on hold. Beside that I also quit my job
at Blur Studio three months ago and now work at Sony Imageworks
as a Technical Director on Monster House doing lighting and compositing. It’s an
all CG feature film produced by Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis
and is scheduled to be release July 2006. Also James Cameron’s Aliens of
the Deep was release in IMAX theaters this August. I worked on the four final
shots which show an underwater alien city on the moon europa. I did all the environment modeling,
texturing, lighting and compositing as well as some particle effects,
it was for sure one of the most enjoyable projects that I worked on last year.
So that’s it for now stay tuned.
2005.03.12 | Two new
links:
Diego http://www.sloft.com/
is a talented programmer that I worked with in Eurocom
in the UK
and now again at Blur Studio. Check out his cool max plugins
if you get a chance. David Munoz http://www.davidmartinez.com/~davidmunoz/, another
Spanish guy that worked in Eurocom while I was there.
2005.02.06 | Little update:
Just got back from my holidays and about to get back into work. Hopefully I
find some time to put up more work I did for Blur in the coming weeks. I also
wanted to direct you to a site from a friend of mine, Rupert Warren, a very
talented and professional photographer. Check out his work at http://www.rupertwarren.de/
2004.11.16 | Open TD / rigger position at Blur:
Blur is looking for a character TD / rigger, this position needs to be filled
as fast as possible, if you stumble across my site and you are a talented TD /
rigger or know someone who would be interested in this position please drop me
a mail at willi@blur.com. Thanks!
2004.10.16 | Cinematics section online:
I have put some of the shots online that I worked on at Blur Studio for the
Spiderman2 cinematics in January. Also put up one of
my old animations.
2004.09.25 | Still busy:
Another update to the credits page, finally finished work on James Cameron's
Extreme Life. I'm also working on putting some animations up, hang in there.
2004.03.18 | Still
alive, busy working:
Just a quick update to the list of projects on the work page. Also shows now
what type of work I did on each project. On a side note, Tenebrae2 is still
creeping along its path to completion.
2003.07.13 | False
Tenebrae2 info on the net:
There seems to be some wrong info floating around on the net about Tenebrae2
been released shortly, that’s just bollocks. Tenebrae2 is far from been
released and it will take a few months before we can even hand out a public
beta. If you wanna check on the latest about
Tenebrae2, your source should be www.tenebrae2.com which is not 100% finished yet but will be
in a few weeks.
2003.05.23 | New
Tenebrae2 / TB-Base screenshots:
There are four new
ones: tb-base_07, tb-base_08,
tb-base_09
and tb-base_10.
Stay tuned for more.
2003.03.19 | Links
updated:
Just added two new
links to Nikos Gatos, http://www.nikosgatos.com/
and John Wallin, http://www.johnwallin.net/. Those guys do some nice work.
2003.02.15 | Tenebrae2 /
TB-Base screenshots:
In the Tenebrae section are two new screenshots. You can also have
a look at a few more on http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net
in original resolution. They show the TB-Base map for Tenebrae2 that I'm
working on.
2003.01.16 | Update:
Updated the
personal 3d page with a old and new stills as well as a video for both. Also
changed the FAQ a little and did some cleaning on the link section.
2002.12.13 | All back
online:
As you may have
noticed everything is back on where it should be. I will add some more mirrors
to the TestMap downloads as
they come available.
2002.12.10 | I moved:
Sorry for the
downtime but I just moved my site to a new server, the new address is http://www.willihammes.com/
please update your bookmarks and links. So far I'm still looking for mirrors to
host the TestMap. Should be back
online shortly, Thanks.
2002.12.08 | Tenebrae 1.03 and TestMap R1.5
released:
As always you can
get the latest Tenebrae 1.03 on http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net/.
For the new version of the TestMap check my Tenebrae section. You can also still get R1 there, if you
want to have a look to compare it with the new one. Please make sure that you
remove all old stuff from R1 before using R1.5. Same as last time for any
questions use the Tenebrae forums on the offical site. Hope you like what you see.
2002.12.07 | Work...
work and more work:
Just been very busy
with work for Blur Studio the
last two months lots of cool stuff and a more to come. On a side note Tenebrae 1.03 is sharpening up and should be released this
weekend. Not so sure I will be able to release also a new version of the TestMap have to see if I can find a few hours to fix it up
for a release, it has changed quite a bit.
2002.10.02 | TestMap R2 screenshots:
In the Maps/Levels section. I started painting the diffuse maps for the
textures and worked some more on the brush structure as well as added more
areas. The screenshots also show some of the new features that will be in the
next release of Tenebrae like skyboxes and global fog
among other things... ignore the terrain ;)
2002.09.25 | Tenebrae 1.02 and TestMap R1
released:
Get Tenebrae 1.02 on http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net/
and download the TestMap in the Maps/Levels section.
A few IMPORTANT things to note; The TestMap
only works with the full retail version of Quake, not to Shareware version!!
Also you need to install the texture pack that you can download from the Tenebrae website, other wise you have to rename the
pak2.pak into pak1.pak so Quake will load it correctly. For any questions ask
in the Tenebrae forum. Enjoy!
2002.09.24 | Tenebrae new screenshots:
I updated the Maps/Levels section with a few new screenshots of the TestMap. They show the release version you peeps gonna get with the new tenebrae soon, while I continue working on a newer
one. The textures are still missing the final diffusemaps
but other then that they turned out to work quite
well.
2002.09.17 | Tenebrae E1M1:
There are a few screenshots of the latest version of Tenebrae
in the Maps/Levels section showing E1M1 with some new textures. I downloaded
the texture pack from Doom2Alive, made bump and glossmaps
for each texture in 3ds max to let them take advantage of Tenebrae's
features.
2002.09.07 | Tenebrae:
I spend the last two weeks working on a test map for Charles Hollemeersch's Quake engine
modification Tenebrae. It's a revamped version of the
old Quake OpenGL engine that uses almost all the same tech like ID's new Doom, stencil shadows, bumpmapping,
reflections and more. I have put up links in the GameTools
page where you can find all the tools you need to edit for Tenebrae.
There are also 12 screenshots of the TestMap in the
Maps/Levels section. These a screenshots of the upcoming new version which
should be released soon together with the TestMap to
show of what Tenebrae can do at it's
current state. The TestMap will evolve during Tenebrae's development as well.
2002.08.04 | Guess what,
finished more work:
Finished another environment for the Blood Rayne outro
sequences for Blur Studio.
Other then that life goes smooth and work keeps me busy. I see to get some
renders together that show the environment I did for the Blood Rayne teaser,
just need to find a free minute to do it.
2002.06.22 | More work
done:
Just finished another job for Blur
Studio. It's a environment for a upcoming TV commercial.
If possible I will put up some frames into the at work section later.
2002.05.22 | Blood Rayne
E3 Teaser:
So here you go peeps. http://www.bloodrayne.com/castle.html, Click the picture on
the right side of the wall and go to downloads to get the teaser. Hope you like
it.