I’m a Visual Effects Artist working at Double Negative. You can see my showreel at MartinCutbill.com. Expect to find lots VFX stuff, movie news and reviews, and other assorted nonsense.Tumblr (3.0; @martincutbill)http://blog.martincutbill.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4yqruCHJe1qak204o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><h1>Prometheus - Review</h1> <p>So I’ve just seen Prometheus, and I am disappoint!</p> <h2>No Spoilers</h2> <p>TV’s Michael Fassbender gives the standout performance as the is-he-isn’t-he evil robot David. It’s exhilarating, scary, gory, and the design (with one exception - more later) and VFX are exquisite.</p> <p>But the script, by some guy and LOST’s I-have-a-huge-amount-of-time-for Damian Lindaloft leads a lot to be desired and lets it all down a bit.</p> <p>Sorry.</p> <h2>Spoilers from here</h2> <p>No really, stop reading unless you e seen it.</p> <p>The main thing is that it’s <em>waaay</em> too on the nose. ‘Look, you have a part of the ship with its own life support, <em>for later in the film!</em>’ and ‘Wow, a Plothammer 4000 medical couch <em>for later in the film</em>!’ Yes you have toast stuff up. But ideally you hide it in a piece of business, not just stand there doing it.</p> <p>Characters are stupid. The one person who can’t get lost (the guy doing the mapping) gets lost because he’s needed to by the story.</p> <p>People take there helmets off, because there is breathable air, and keep them off, even when they know that there is alien biological activity, and that there presence is affecting it.</p> <p>Talking of the crew, they have an underlying problem. In Alien, they are unprofessional, rough, ready, space truckers. There are thousands like them, this is just a space McJob so it fits. However in this film they are a crack team put together by the world’s richest man for a mission that may impact all mankind; yes they are still (mostly) all space truckers. Feels very wrong. Plus they (i.e. we) all get briefed together coz they don’t know why they’re there. Again, lazy exposition.</p> <p>And lastly (for now) any film with a mutant baby in is crap. It’s such a cheap shot. Please.</p>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/24225625995http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/24225625995Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:02:18 +0100prometheusvfxreview<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/42203005" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><h1>Ghost Recon</h1> <p>This is a pretty awesoem Ghost Recon short film.</p>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/24123399150http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/24123399150Thu, 31 May 2012 11:56:11 +0100<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JsbzIs1r4PA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h1>John Carter - 50’s Trailer</h1> <p>This is awesome…</p>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/24121371493http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/24121371493Thu, 31 May 2012 10:23:21 +0100JCOMvfxtrailer<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hpojeVWb96U?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h1>Les Miserables - Trailer</h1> <p>Trying to get on this next at work.</p>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/24057977566http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/24057977566Wed, 30 May 2012 12:19:56 +0100trailervfx<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iCpqMqIVJDE?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h1>TRON Uprising S01E01</h1> <p>Looks better than the movie!</p>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/23789609377http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/23789609377Sat, 26 May 2012 11:46:05 +0100tron<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fbxaqCt51qak204o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/23541081053http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/23541081053Tue, 22 May 2012 13:27:09 +0100<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/V0xPMoF0jFU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><h1>Skyfall</h1></p>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/23472597562http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/23472597562Mon, 21 May 2012 10:06:56 +0100trailerbond<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oCruJzlWefE?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/23224947729http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/23224947729Thu, 17 May 2012 12:48:50 +0100gotcollege humour<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/p_Ou_T4sWXg?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/23099827528http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/23099827528Tue, 15 May 2012 13:01:00 +0100mermaidsvfxbandito<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OB0wpPCEMPQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/23034556130http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/23034556130Mon, 14 May 2012 13:01:04 +0100mermaidsvfxbandito<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UKtUyIftrVU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/22965019822http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/22965019822Sun, 13 May 2012 13:01:36 +0100mermaidsvfxbandito<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GqleRxEDwrg?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/22897123884http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/22897123884Sat, 12 May 2012 13:00:27 +0100mermaidsvfxbandito<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XhekckNR9ZI?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><h1>Digital Domain Vray in Real Steel</h1></p>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/22779252289http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/22779252289Thu, 10 May 2012 15:18:16 +0100vfxvrayreal steel<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5Otaq2tmNMM?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><strong>Happy Friday</strong>, <em>if</em> you are a children of the 80s…</p>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/21027919781http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/21027919781Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:12:53 +0100<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5kGFyVKmqA0?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>From the director of Brick.</p>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/21016844648http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/21016844648Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:10:33 +0100vfxtrailer<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QRNDL3xXrm0?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/20517762594http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/20517762594Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:01:33 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1wmxgicun1qak204o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Possibly the only reason I’m interested in the Avengers…</p>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/20406026473http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/20406026473Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:03:15 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1w90rwtaj1qak204o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/20399924389http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/20399924389Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:02:51 +0100GoT<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GljhR5rk5eY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Awesome Total Recall trailer - You can finally see what I’ve been doing the last few months!</p>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/20339134085http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/20339134085Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:48:15 +0100total recalltrailervfxdneg<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1n7yvHl4E1qak204o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/20113117467http://blog.martincutbill.com/post/20113117467Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:00:05 +0100