District 9 Teaser Trailer!

In late January of 2008, I got a call from Neill Blomkamp's assistant Victoria Burkhart about bidding on the visual effects for Neill's directorial debut. At that time it was a loose story entitled "Project X" that really only existed as a treatment and a whole lot of concept designs executed for the most part at Weta Workshop. Neill and I had crossed paths many times having been in the Vancouver post-production scene for some time, but didn't know each other really at all. We hit it off, and together with Peter Muyzers we managed to wrangle the project into shape during the following three months with many, many, many discussions about how to achieve the visual effects in the time and budget we were to be allowed. We jumped in with both feet as they say and I happy to say the results are pretty satisfying. We built on our already amazing crew at the studio and assembled a really kick-ass group of artists for the production more than doubling the facility's size. With the release of this teaser trailer - the world is getting a glimpse of all our hard work at Image Engine! Cudos to all the folks who've been slaving away on this puppy for a year!