New Animation Showreel

I have just updated my showreel with some of my shots I did for the ‘You Get Me‘ music video I did over at Arx Anima:

All the information about the reel, and shots can be seen on the Showreel page : Iestyn Roberts – Animation Showreel. I’m currently on the lookout for some animation work, please feel free to get in touch if you require some animators.

I also want to thank my super amazing girlfriend for being so incredible to me whilst I’ve been working on my reel. Diolch cariad.

Dyffryn Nantlle

As I’m currently back in Wales, every evening I try to head on out to the mountains with my camera, to have a break from my computer. Here’s a couple I’ve taken this last week:

Llyn Nantlle

Yr olygfa o dop Mynydd Mawr

The first is of the fantastic Llyn Nantlle. I was really lucky to capture this – after driving like a fool in the new van to try and capture the great contrast between the mountains and the skies, I only took one photo, and the sun sank really fast behind the clouds, and after hanging around for a good 30 mins, there was no sign of it ever coming back. But I was really happy with the result.

The second if the view from the summit of my favorite mountain – Mynydd Mawr, looking over towards the Nantlle Ridge. The lake from which the first image is taken from can be seen in the Valley below.

Nant-y-Betws

As the sun was blasting, and the promise of a lovely sunset was imminent. I headed up Craig Cwmbychan, (the ‘head’ of the elephant that is Mynydd Mawr) to try and capture the sunset, blasting through Nant-Y-Betws below.

Nant-y-Betws

So here’s Nant-y-Betws, looking over from Craig Cwmbychan, Mynydd Mawr towards Moel Eilio, and Snowdon on the far right. Llyn Cwellyn can also be seen below.

Tiss a lovely Valley.

[Arx Anima] Disney’s Tom and Angela – “You Get Me” music video

Over a few weeks in April, I got a fantastic opportunity to work with the great people over at Arx Anima, on Disney’s Tom and Angle’s music video – “You Get Me”.

[youtube width=”853″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtv_VSw_nhg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

It was a great experience for me, working with some great animators, and I’m extremely impressed with how everything turned out.

My shots are from 0:38 to the 1:08 – the dream sequence. It was a great little 10 shot sequence, and I was really happy to have continuos shots like that.

If you liked it, please feel free to share it: Arx Anima – Tom and Angela “You Got Me”

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Since it’s release, the video currently has 113,000,000 view on Youtube, which is phenomenal! Arx Ania has just released a quick ‘making of’ video, which features a few of my scenes. Here’s the video:

[youtube width=”853″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIbqAUX_ZsM[/youtube]

Llanberis Pass

Whilst closely watching the sun setting on Monday, I headed up the beautiful Llanberis pass, hoping that the sun will be blasting right up the valley, as it sometimes does – but I wasn’t in luck. The sun did however, set behind Llechog and Grib Goch, with a bright red hue.

Bwlch Llanberis - Llanberis Pass

This was taken just on the PYG track, Pen-Y-Pass. Grib Goch is the steep pyramid shaped peak on the left, while on the right of the valley, we have the terrain sweeping up to Bryn Du, and making it’s way up to Glyder Fawr.

Moel Eilio

I’ve just returned to Wales, and over the weekend I headed out, up to Moel Eilio as I haven’t been up there for a few months now. The sun was blasting, and there was only a few other people up at the top, who ran back down as quickly as they arrived, so I had the whole mountain to myself.

As it was around midday, the lighting wasn’t perfect, but I did manage to take a couple of panoramas of the view towards Snowdon.

Eryri / Snowdonia

Snowdon from Moel Eilio

Moel Eilio is located just North West from Snowdon itself, so the view is always pleasant, and is tagged at 726m high.

A couple from Snowdonia

Here’s a couple more old photographs that I’ve just re-visited, as I love playing around in Lightroom. The first is take a couple years back coming down Yr Aran, with Bwlch Cwm Llan and the Snowdonia Quarries in the background, and the second I took while taking a nice gentle drive around Snowdon one evening, looking down Pen Y Pass, with the sun setting over Llanberis down the Valley.

Yr Aran, Bwlch Cwm Llan
Pen-Y-Pass