Bruce steel

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This morning we met a very interesting fella called Bruce Steel. Bruce worked his way from a Cardiff computer shop, through working on computer animation for 80s gameshows up to being head of special projects at Glassworks. Bruce - apart from having a really cool name - has worked on a lot of the most interesting adverts that have been on telly over the last 10 or so years. The work he showed us from his time at Glassworks was really top drawer and covered may different animation/special effects disciplines from character animation to seamless real world special effects. Coming from a special effects background alto of what Bruce has dome seems to have involved allot of problem solving and working out the best and simplest way to bring the writer/director/producers to the screen. Most of this seem to involve successful and seamlessly combining camera footage and cg effects. Whether that was fantasy characters interacting with human characters. Or bringing realistic but impossible/too expensive to shoot elements to the screen - such as the WWI dogfight in one of the Stella Artois adverts.
Alot of the wisdom Bruce had to impart was to do with the virtue of taking the simplest route for effects, and essentially doing as much work for real and in camera.