JOSHUA HOCKEY
Digital Compositor
Roles: Compositing, Plate Prep, Lighting, Layout, Production
Headlights
Following our success last year with ‘Tamandua’ at the Uni of Herts Animation exposé we as a team decided to all work together again this year, but be much less cute and cuddly. What was missing from our second year film was that it did not really fit into the Live-action bracket and ended up being more of a 3D film, so to amend that we wanted to create a short horror with a proper actor and a big CG scary thing.
So, I present to you: Headlights, a live action horror with a big CG scary thing, after lots and lots of back and forth with the lecturers, some industry connections and of course between ourselves, we’ve landed on this.
Here's the final film:
Full film
A huge amount of work went into the film by every team member and it's a project I'm immensely proud of! We also did a rookies entry if you would like to check it out here's a link: https://www.therookies.co/entries/21310
Here's a VFX breakdown I created for us and the guys to add to the submission I think this is vital viewing alongside the film to understand how much really went into the creation:
VFX breakdown reel
This being a university project there was also an evidence reel I had to create to show the full expanse of my work on the production so this is here too, although I don't expect anyone to watch the whole thing, unless you're as big of a Toto fan as me: