Artists Profile: Gavin Mills

Who introduced you to your first Flame?

Miguel Ferros and Richard Bainbridge

When did you fall for your first Flame?

1998 in Discreets office in London UK

Why did you fall in love with your Flame?

Loved the limitless possibilities.

What is your proudest Flame moment?

There are many of them from 11 years but one sticks out. Rescuing some really badly shot footage for the show Stargate of an actors head lifting up through a scene. Creating and replacing the elements of a makeup mask on the head of the actor. 75 hours after 98 frames were reborn. All long before 3d tracking. I was working at Northwest FX in Vancouver on Inferno at the time.

How did your Flame save the day?

Sure did. Would have been totally impossible to do this without Extended Bicubics and 2d tracking.

Favorite Flame project (my own):

British Airways welcome to London Heathrow films. Oh and my development of the Fluidz and Trailz plugins for SpeedSix

Favorite Flame project (by another artist):

I like what Sean Broughton from S&M did with my fluids software in his Mercedes Spots for the US market late last year.

Were you ever unfaithful to your Flame?

I have used Assimilate Scratch to finish jobs for color. Don't see how that is unfaithful. Its a thousand times faster.

What keeps you coming back for more?

The lack of anyone that can develop a more useful tool that you can earn more than $30 per hour.

My Flame wisdom:

Learn from others. I have worked with too many flame artists that are Pre Madonnas. Its only a program. remember that you are not really a god. LOL