Digital
Creative

Darren Blencowe

01. Services Offered

Expertise

Award Winning digital artist with the creative punch to consistantly WOW - combined with the leadership skills to deliver the most complex projects.

Creative Director

Experience in creative design and direction spans over 12 years across multiple digital mediums. SME's, Corporate and Agency interfacing, building and leading small to medium teams of artists, designers, animators, compositors and developers with full 360 overview and delivery of creative projects.

CGi/VFX Producer

More than 14 years have spent in Creative digital proudction of a variety of projects - involving multiple aspects of digital content - static, animated and interactive, managing the entire production process from intial brief, team assembly, planning, deployment and delivery.

CGI Generalist

Over 30 years experience utilising a full range of design and CGI tools with a forte in 3D Modelling, Texturing/UV layout, Lighting/Rendering, excellent eye for detail, colour and composition. Understanding of extended workflows into VR, AR and realtime/interactive productions.

Soft SKILLs
  • • Imagination
  • • Focus
  • • Resilience
  • • Experience
  • • Agile
  • • Good Design Sense
  • • Punctuality and Efficiency
  • • Collaborative
  • • Market Knowledge
HARD skills
  • • Storytelling
  • • Storyboarding
  • • IT infrastucture
  • • IT hardware
  • • Literacy & Communication
  • • 3D modelling workflow
  • • 3D UV &texturing workflow
  • • 2D lighting &compositing workflow
  • • fTrack Scheduling/Bidding
CGI Competency
  • • 3D Softimage - high
  • • 3D Blender 3D - med/high
  • • 3D Maya 3D - med
  • • 3D Max- low
  • • 2D Adobe Suite - high
  • • RT Unreal - med
  • • RT Unity - med
  • • Zbrush - med
  • • Sculptris - med

02. recognition

awards

Date award catagory production
  • • 2018 Winner: FMBE Gold award - Most effective stand/experiential display 'Coriant Mobile World Congress 2018'
  • • 2015 Winner: Cannes Silver Dolphin ry/DCTA- Best informational film ‘Track and Trace’
  • • 2013 Nominated: promaxBDA World - Best News Programme Opener/Titles 'Sky News'
  • • 2012 Winner: W3 Silver Award - Best Animation Sneak Global 'Year of the Dragon'
  • • 2009 Winner: PromaxBDA Bronze - Best News Bumper 'Beijing Olympics'
  • • 2007 Winner: PromaxBDA World Gold - Best Sports Opener: Sky Sports 'Rugby Union'
  • • 2007 Nominated: BAFTA - Best Title Sequence: Sky Sports 'Rugby Union'
  • • 2006 Winner: RTS Awards Winner - Best Titles: Sky Sports 'Lions Tour of New Zealand'
  • • 2006 Winner: PromaxBDA World Gold - Best Art Direction & Design: Sky Sports 'Lions Tour of New Zealand'
  • • 2006 Winner: PromaxBDA World Gold - Best Sports Promo: Sky Sports 'Lions Tour of New Zealand'
  • • 2006 Winner: PromaxBDA World Gold - Best Collaborative Effort: Sky Sports 'Lions Tour of New Zealand'
  • • 2006 Winner: PromaxBDA World Gold - Best Sports Opener: Sky Sports 'Lions Tour of New Zealand'
  • • 2006 Winner: PromaxBDA World Silver - Best Opener: Sky News Ident
  • • 2006 Winner: PromaxBDA World Bronze - Best Infographic: Sky News 'General Election 2005'
  • • 2005 Winner: PromaxBDA World Bronze - Best Ident: Sky News 'SkyNews Ident'
  • • 2005 Winner: PromaxBDA World Bronze - Best Opener: Sky News 'London Fashion Week
  • • 2005 Winner: PromaxBDA World Gold - Best Infographic: Sky News 'US Elections 04'
  • • 2005 Winner: PromaxBDA World Bronze - Best Infographic: Sky News 'Chinese Grand Prix'
  • • 2005 Winner: PromaxBDA World Silver - Best Infographic: Sky News 'Local Elections & Mayoral Elections'
  • • 2004 Nominated: Design Week Awards - Best Graphic Design: Sky Skuzz 'Skuzz World'
  • • 2004 Winner: PromaxBDA Europe Silver - Best Ident: 'Christmas Ident'
  • • 2003 Winner: Promax Europe Gold - Best Sponsors Sequence: Sky Movies 'Haagen Dazs' Sponsorship
  • • 2003 Winner: Promax UK Gold - Best Networks Branding Campaign: Sky Movies 'Movie Max’
  • • 1995 Winner: AUTOdesk AutoCAD - User of the Year Award Briffa Phillips 'Odessa Hotel Design'
  • • 1993 Winner: CADdesk Journal - 3D Visualisation Award Briffa Phillips 'St.Albans Abbey Housing Design'

03. Hands on Creative

Folio

BROADCAST: Sky News - Titles/Rebrand
BROADCAST: Sky Sports - Titles 'Rugby Union'

Broadcast

Film | Television
BROADCAST: Sky News - Beijing Olympics - 'On air package'

Over 24 years experience in the Broadcast market, from working solo on promo and viral packages to leading 3D artists within in large creative production teams delivering full Brand packages.

Agile creative abilities with strong communication skills gained from working in fast paced live news environments. Exposure to time critial deployments, cross channel campaigns and large coporate brands.

Clients: Sky News | Sky Movies | Sky Sports | BBC | Channel 5

BROADCAST: Sky Sports - Titles - 'Lions Tour of New Zealand'

Marcoms

Advertising | Events | Symposia
MARCOMS: FMG/Sneak Global/Value Retail - Viral Campaign - 'Year of the Dragon'

Over 20 years of directing, producing and creating digital content for cross channel campaigns. A broad selection of marketing and communications initiatives that are under-pinned with 3D/2D animated content and visual effects.

Crafted to be used and deployed either passive or interactive across multiple channels - symposia, conferences and events.

Clients: 9Yards | hub9 | ry/DCTA | SneakGLOBAL | FAV | Sudler | TBWA | BMS | Pfizer | Sonoco | ZEEdesign | PSCo

MARCOMS: Radley Yelder/cumi - DCTA Infomation Film - 'Track and Trace'

Interactive

Exhibition | Installations | Events
INTERACTIVE: hub9/TEVA - Interactive Challenge - 'TEVAdaptor'

Championing a cohesive story that makes the best use of available technology and platform that shows off the narrative to its highest potential. Productions have always been concieved and designed with ROI, efficiency and the ability capture and measure user metrics.

Deployments have included smart devices, large screens, LED walls - either touch or gesture controlled - also utilising holographic displays, VR, AR and MR experiences.

Clients: 9Yards | Sneak Global | FAV | TEVA | Bayer | Pfizer | NRG | ZEEdesign

INTERACTIVE: hub9/Pfizer - Interactive MOA - 'Pathobiology of PAH'

Visualisation

concept | design | product
VISUALISATION: Aston Martin Lagonda - Realtime Rendering - 'Aston Martin DB11'

High-end final output and realism achieved for a large array of products, promotions and advertising. Objective results by executing with meaning and narrative from the essence of the origin of the product, service or message proffered.

In-depth knowledge of cost effective manipulation of data and accurate custom 3D modelling combined with the latest rendering technigues. Integration into real-time engines for heightened experience value or greater reach with story.

Clients: 9Yards | Gillette | TEVA | Aston Martin Lagonda | MEGAman | OptiPlex

VISUALISATION: Mbox/Gillette - Sponsorship - 'Sky Sports Soccer Saturday'

Virtual Conference

Conferece | Sympoisa | Agm
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: 9Yards - Virtual - 'Virtual Conference Package'

During the recent global pandemic there was an uptake in Virtual Conference packages and streamable digtial content - delivering highly bespoke, tailored, orchestrated mixed media presentations for global corporates.

The premise of these productions during a pandemic was to keep small to large teams connected, inspired and up-to-date at a global level, despite the wide-spread conditions of separation and isolation.

Clients: 9Yards | Pfizer

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: 9Yards - Virtual - 'Virtual Conference Package'

Creativity is a wild mind
and a disciplined eye.

04. Original Inventivness

About

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of lifes coming attractions.

Story First

Intrepid storyteller, captivated by the keenest observations of the world we live in. Inspiration fuelled by a fusion of imagination - from the tiniest quantum worlds of science, the complex intricacies of nature - to the vast wonders of the universe.

Nurturing Creation

Thrive and excel within creative roles and teams. Harnessing my own and others imagination and strengths, to nurture the seeds of visual concept and experience design - into wonders that can impress, engage and inspire.

Objective ideation

Embrace ideation, the process of realising story, vision and ideas. Leveraging a diverse thirty year creative background - Architecture and Design, to Video Game Design and Production - expressing this firmly in the digital realms of CGI.

05. Get in touch

Contact

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Location

St.Albans, UK

Phone Number

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Email Enquiry

db web at darren blencowe dot com

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