JohnSheils
- Visual effects
A pioneer of computer-generated imagery in New Zealand, John Sheils helped conjure angry cave trolls, flying buzzy bees and herds of roaming TV sets. Time as a camera operator fueled his interest in images unconstrained by gravity or nature. Sheils went on to work on The Fellowship of the Ring, Perfect Creature, Spartacus, and a run of video games and adverts — plus Red Scream, NZ’s first CG short film.
Screenography
Biography
On the website for his company 3DCGI, John Sheils loaded highlights from 30 years of creating imagery on-screen. It is quite some journey — from commercials that took a month to make, to a single shot from Spartacus which features 40,000 CGI soldiers.
“That's the thing that's been the biggest inspiration to me working in this industry so far; trying to do things that the software isn't capable of. Especially these days, when the software's capable of everything.”