Focus Group, announced it has brought on board award-winning Art Director
and Motion Graphics Supervisor Neil Huxley. Huxley's experience working in
feature film titles design and motion graphics sequences — he recently
completed the opening title sequence for Zack Snyder's "Watchmen" and was
lead art director for motion graphics on Neveldine/Taylor's upcoming movie
"Gamer" — is already being put to use on a high-profile stereoscopic 3D
feature film project currently in the Frantic Films production pipeline.
closely following Neil's career for years. In addition to being an
immensely talented designer, Neil has a deep knowledge of visual effects
and as a live-action filmmaker himself, understands every aspect of the
production process. He's passionate, a perfectionist and a natural leader
— qualities I look for in anyone who joins the Frantic team."
working on the main title designs for the films “Watchmen,” “Elizabeth: The
Golden Age,” and the forthcoming movie “The Wolfman.” He comes to Frantic
from yU+co, where, as an art director, he oversaw design and animation
teams and was responsible for writing treatments, storyboarding, pitching
concepts to clients and directing projects through to completion. Before
relocating to Hollywood, Huxley was a Flame artist and senior VFX designer
at Digital Pictures Iloura in Melbourne, Australia. There, he art directed
title sequences, television commercials and broadcast graphics for clients
such as Diet Coke, Warner Bros.TV, Target, Universal Pictures, Working
Title, Studio Canal and MTV Australia.
Growing up in a family of fine artists — both his father and brother are
painters — has informed much of Huxley’s aesthetic and approach, as he
aims to intertwine digital and traditional design techniques into his work.
A longtime filmmaker with several short films under his belt, Huxley wrote
and is directing a feature-length documentary about East London
ex-professional boxer turned actor Jimmy Flint that is being produced with
funding from the Australian Film Commission.
“I’m really excited about joining Frantic Films and having the opportunity
to work so closely with Chris Bond and Mike Fink, two veterans of the
visual effects industry who I really admire,” said Neil Huxley, art
director, Frantic Films VFX. “I love the conceptual ideas and metaphors of
title design — it’s like a short film living within a feature film, with
the two narratives deeply connected. So I look forward to leveraging my
background in title design to help bring those sorts of projects to
Frantic.”
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