We were brought on board by awesome producer Lucas Foster (Mr & Mrs Smith, Man on Fire) to do dev vis, help get the movie green lit.
Ideas started flying about the real world consequences of teleportation : air displacement, shockwave when the air displacement is too strong, scar in space, refraction dude to change in air density, slicing effect, tears in the fabric of space etc...

RnD on the effects of teleportation


Once Doug was on board, the project was green lit and we started on a fight within the NSA headquarter which got cut off during the first rewrite.

Jumpers fighting in the NSA headquarter


One of the sequence that was worked on : the battle within Griffing’s lair. Armed with an experimental device stolen from a Japanese lab, the Paladins pry open a scar and walk on the other side

Griffin’s “Lair”

A few fighting techniques which we studied before and during production ...

Fight studies

This is the fun in previs : you get so early in the process that you end up working at the concept level...

This is a test Mike and Dorian pretty much single handedly animated to prove to Michael they were badass enough to breath the same air as he (I had passed the hazing test on The Island apparently).



Giant Robot using city property illegally



wanna live ? take your pants off



When in doubt, blow shit up

Mission Impossible III
I was introduced to JJ Abrams by my friend Robbie (again) and the first contact talking about how camera language is motivated by the emotion of the scene was great.
I got on board, 2 weeks by myself playing with the bridge sequence, trying to push for a rocket launcher just because I liked the design and after that, called in Mike and Dorian and we stated taking names and being awesome, the usual.
Working with JJ was the awesome part. Story centric, solving 10 minuted debate on why Ethan would not blow up the chopper by a quick “the drone flies in and Ethan quickly tries to take it down” - brilliantly kinetic.

Ah now that was an incredible experience.
Working in the same room as storyboard and story teller extraordinaire Robbie Consing and director Mark Palansky was fun, I don’t quite recall the work because it felt like family after a week.
Oh yes and there was also Michael Bay and his two gigantor dogs.
This show was so much fun !

Air Bike chase

“Let’s reset the rig, the accelerations are in the red”

“Give me a corkscrew on the Morpheus head clamp”

“This is the bible”