Title: Showreel of Joseph Pole, 2012 Duration: 1:10 VFX Supervisor: Joseph Pole Compositing: Joseph Pole Music: Aphex Twin Music Title: Polynomial-C

Recently a commercial I VFX Supervised and composited in After Effects won the 2011 Promax BDA world gold awardfor the Best Program Promotion in the Entertainment category.

Title: Show Opener - Tropfest 2010 Duration: 00:30 Client: Nine Network Australia Art Director: Joseph Pole 3D (Maya): Joshua Czikowski Compositing: Joseph Pole Music Title: Rather Lovely Thing

  I'm not sure why but I love the way this logo animation turned out. I struggled with it for ages. The 3D department  supplied plenty of passes and it should have looked good but it just wasn't looking right. Then I decided to simplify the project and switched off a lot of the passes and started flicking through different blending modes with only 3 or 4 layers switched on. Suddenly this multicoloured surprise jumped out of the quagmire. I was thrilled but thought it was too psychedelic to ever get approved. Yet happily, it was unanimously approved and went to air in the fo

Here's an experimental project I made for fun and to test some of the new features in trapcode particular 2. It was fairly popular on vimeo and even recieved a complimentary comment from the legendary Peder Norrby - trapcode's creator. The general concept is trying to visualise what a sleeping Giant Squid's id might create if it heard the music of Aphex Twin. Yes, a worn out old genre I know. Giant squid are one of my favourite animals. Also, a favourite animal of the Sperm Whale as that's their primary source of food. The squid live about 1km below the surface of the ocean and tha

Title: FINA World Swimming Titles Duration: 00:30 Client: Nine Network Australia. Channel Nine Art Director: Joseph Pole VFX Supervisor: Joseph Pole Producers: Uriah Blair Live Action Director: Uriah Blair Compositing: Joseph Pole 3D: Luke Dwyer Storyboards & Layout: Joseph Pole, Murray Charteris

Title: Shot breakdown - Australian Logie Awards Duration: 01:00 VFX Supervisor: Joseph Pole Compositing: Joseph Pole Music: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Music Title: Rather Lovely Thing

An example of how a VFX Supervisor can save money on a production

This is a bit off-topic but it is such an amazing pice of footage I think it's worth sharing. A visually stunning video of the earth seen from the International Space Station. At the time of writing this clip has been online for 4 days and has had 4.4 million views. Hope you enjoy it as much as i did! More details and full credits can be found on Michael König's Vimeo page here

  The Wacom Inkling records your strokes while you draw on a sketchbook or paper. The specially designed pen's location is recorded by a infrared and ultrasonic receiver with 2GB (or a couple of hundred drawings) of storage. That's the basics but there are plenty of other features - usb rechargeable batteries, 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity and refillable ink cartridges and so on.   Looks like Wacom have another revolution on their hands. I stopped using a mouse about 7 years ago because the Wacom tablet became more intuitive and faster for me and their tablets are

here's a quick one cntrl y – makes a new layer

Well this is a proud day for me! The show 'The Block' became Australia's highest rating show of the year during it's final episode last night with over 3 million viewers resulting in an audience share of 42.2% Visual Effects Supervising and Art Directing the launch campaign was an enormously challenging task but the results couldn't be better. The show launched 15% up from 2010 and ended on this high note. Needless to say there was a celebration this morning!