Digital Domain‘s hybrid production company Mothership has secured Neil Huxley as creative director. An experienced designer, digital artist and director, Huxley will work across advertising, games marketing, films and all media at Mothership and Digital Domain. In addition to overseeing design execution for client projects, Huxley will direct commercials and productions for screens of all sizes under the Mothership banner.
Already at Mothership, Huxley has directed a 90-second fully CG trailer for Bethesda Softworks’ “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” videogame out of agency AKQA. Featuring fire-lit stone carvings of death and destruction, and a stone dragon coming to life, the trailer premiered during the Spike Video Game Awards.
Huxley boarded Mothership after a stint designing fantasy user interfaces, stereo 3D graphics and heads-up displays for James Cameron’s Avatar and for Zack Synder’s upcoming March release Sucker Punch. A London native, he moved to Australia in 2002 to join Digital Pictures Iloura as a designer before staking a claim in Los Angeles where, as an art director at yU+co, he worked on opening title sequences for director Snyder’s Watchmen and art directed more than 600 shots for Neveldine/Taylor’s Gamer.
In the commercials medium, Huxley has directed design, animation and live action for clients including Diet Coke, Pepsi, Honda, Spike TV, TNT, FOXTEL, Target, Ask.com, MTV Australia, Universal Pictures, FOX, Warner Bros., DreamWorks SKG, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, Bravo, Ubisoft and Vivendi.
Ed Ulbrich, president of Mothership, cited Huxley’s multi-disciplinary experience and orientation. “He’s tapped into the worlds of design, production, cinematography and photography and can pull together teams that look at projects entirely differently and make them fresh,” said Ulbrich of Huxley. “He works with film directors on design treatments for movie pitches and with Mothership directors and CDs to design and develop core creative. As a director he brings all of that together and does amazing work.”
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CBS cameras caught the actor walking through his charred house for the first time, standing in what was once his kitchen and looking at a neighborhood in ruin. "Your heart just breaks."
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