Conference The State of VFX VFX for Episodic
ONLINE ONLINE 1 Friday, May 08, 17:00

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

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Creating 1930s VFX splendour for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. From Piccadilly Circus to Ascot!

Join CG Supervisor Dave Cook to explore how the BlueBolt team built and recreated the bustling environments for the film's iconic Piccadilly Circus opening sequence and the elegant crowds of Ascot, to help transport audiences into the world of Julian Fellowes' Downton Abbey for one last time!

 

Dave Cook, CG Supervisor, BlueBolt

 

Dave is a highly experienced, award-winning senior 3D artist and CG Supervisor with feature film and episodic credits including Robert Egger’s Nosferatu, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and The Last Kingdom (Netflix).

 

Dave joined BlueBolt in 2021 as CG Supervisor on Amazon sci-fi series The Peripheral. Since then his credits have included The Great season 3, two seasons of The Last Kingdom including the feature-length finale Seven Kings Must Die and Robert Eggers Nosferatu for which he received a VES Award nomination. Most recently Dave was CG Supervisor on Downton Abbey: the Grand Finale. 

 

Prior to joining BlueBolt Dave spent a year at Milk as CG Supervisor on BAFTA nominated sci-fi series Intergalactic (Sky) and five years at Jellyfish as Head of 3D where his credits include Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Black Mirror - Hated in the Nation, Alive at the Natural History Museum with David Attenborough and My Inner Fish for which he won an Emmy award.


Dave studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and began his career in 2D traditional drawn animation in the 1990s, when his early forays into computer animation were on the Amiga. Dave has also spent time lecturing on VFX and animation at Escape Studios, Sae/Quant and the American Intercontinental University.