Multiple Titles: Crowd

Over 7.5 years in MPC's crowd department, I progressed from artist to leading shows, and held the Crowd Supervisor role for five years. I was responsible for the final crowd output of each show, served as the department's primary show contact, and worked closely with client-side and internal Animation Supervisors. I led teams of artists and TDs, typically five per show and often double that at peak times. Crowd at MPC was multidisciplinary, covering rigging, animation and FX simulation, and it was the company's only crowd department globally, so all work of this type passed through the small London team. The range was wide: traffic systems, background civilians, creature swarms, spaceship battles and hero-level animation, through to complex FX simulation, such as coded behavioural logic driving light patterns through a school of prehistoric marine life, and heavy character shots like those on The Lion King.