Silver Awards for Best Animation at British Arrows Craft Awards 2013 for  Glasswork’s TalkTalk Model Village commercial, which I worked on.

[Link] November 2013

Freelance Photographer  – London Cycle Exchange

Londoncycleexchange.com

June 2013 – Present

 

VFX 3D Artist  – Glassworks London

August 2012 – Present

 

Runner – Glassworks London

July 2012 – August 2012

3D Assistant at Finish Post Production

August 2011 – January 2012
I covered all the basic aspects of the 3D VFX generalist pipeline for commercials;
Tracking, match-moving, modelling, lighting & rendering whilst working on the BMW Joy Wins commercial – http://www.finish.tv/work/view/joy-wins

Freelance Wedding Photographer

July 1, 2011
Main wedding photographer for Kate Wright and Tim Malloch.

Autodesk Design Guru 2011 Entertainment Creation category Winner

05 May 2011
I came first in the Autodesk Design Guru 2011 competition in the Entertainment Creation category.
I submited one of my 3D pieces done with Autodesk Maya – http://www.koansah.com/works/final_comp.jpg and came top in that category.
I was awarded an Amazon Kindle with 3G & WiFi.

Work Experience Trainee

April 2011
Post Production – Finish.tv
Spent a week at Finish training on Tracking using PFTrack.
I was given clean plates of several previously completed commercials by the company to track as part of my training.

 

D&AD Professional Judging Awards 2011

April 2011
Ravensbourne D&AD Ambassador.
Shadowed the judges on the panel for the ‘Film Advertising Crafts’ category.

 

Freelance Photographer : Topshop/Topman & Pret

November 2010
Corporate photographer for Top Shop/Top Man’s 2010 Christmas party and Pret’s Christmas party.

 

The Mill,  London – Freelance 3D modeler

September 2010
Spent about three weeks in the 3D department working on some aspects of the video game Cinematic of Brink, by Splash Damage.
Tasks: Modelling a tugboat, organising weapons library and getting it ready for use in the pipeline by assigning textures to models.

 

Framestore CFC, Soho, London

May 2009
Runner

 

The Mill,  London

April 2009
Runner for the first week then selected to work in the 3D department in the second week.
Tasks: Modeling props of the stadium used for the adidas® F50i advert – “Impossible Is Nothing” Zidane & Messi.

 

Shomedia Ltd, London

May 2006 – July 2006
Graphic Designer.
Flash animations for a website and editing images for magazine.

 

Advanced Photoshop issue 71 interview

June 2010
Interviewed on ‘Advance Photoshop’ Issue 71

 

Advanced Photoshop Issue 62 feature

October 2009
Featured on ‘Advance Photoshop’ Issue 62

 

Feature on Australian website – Onlycreative.com

October 2009
Online feature on Australian website ‘onlycreative.com’

 

Abduzeedo feature

June 2009
Online feature on ‘abduzeedo.com’

 

Online feature by QytDesign

June 2009
Online feature on Japanese design website ‘qytdesign.com’

 

Student most likely to make it in the multimedia industry award

August 2008
Hackney Community College acknowledged as “student most likely to make it in the multimedia industry” and picked up a cash award from the Hackney Gazette.