I was chatting to a really nice guy who’s created one of the hi-tech special effects for the latest James Bond film ‘Quantum of Solace’. Alistair Burleigh is a graduate of Newport University and designed a big glowing cube that flashes on and off to sultry Latin rhythms at a glitzy party thrown by the film’s villain. (Bond villains all tend to throw big parties these days – they used to just have secret cavernous lairs.)
Anyway, Alistair has a company called wrap3 which specialise in light sculptures (some of his work is pictured here) and it was while he was exhibiting at the Tent London design festival that someone told him they were from the new Bond film and were really impressed with his work.
“We’ll be in touch,” they said.
Ali never expected to hear anything but two weeks later found himself at a meeting being invited to provide the “wow factor” for the big party scene. The upshot was, he was flown out to Panama for two weeks to build the cube and run it to the music (he’s also a VJ).
During shooting, Ali met Daniel Craig, the latest incarnation of James Bond. Alistair won’t be attending the film’s premiere as he’ll be in Cannes working on another big project for one of the world’ top fashion brands. Nice work if you can get it. It was great chatting to a really innovative artist who’s doing great things on high profile projects but is really down to earth.
“Working on the Bond film was very exciting, but at the end of the day it became just another job,” he said.
Watch out for his contribution to the movie when it opens soon. In the meantime, check out Alistair’s innovative multimedia installations on his company’s website http://www.wrap3.co.uk/
Anyway, Alistair has a company called wrap3 which specialise in light sculptures (some of his work is pictured here) and it was while he was exhibiting at the Tent London design festival that someone told him they were from the new Bond film and were really impressed with his work.
“We’ll be in touch,” they said.
Ali never expected to hear anything but two weeks later found himself at a meeting being invited to provide the “wow factor” for the big party scene. The upshot was, he was flown out to Panama for two weeks to build the cube and run it to the music (he’s also a VJ).
During shooting, Ali met Daniel Craig, the latest incarnation of James Bond. Alistair won’t be attending the film’s premiere as he’ll be in Cannes working on another big project for one of the world’ top fashion brands. Nice work if you can get it. It was great chatting to a really innovative artist who’s doing great things on high profile projects but is really down to earth.
“Working on the Bond film was very exciting, but at the end of the day it became just another job,” he said.
Watch out for his contribution to the movie when it opens soon. In the meantime, check out Alistair’s innovative multimedia installations on his company’s website http://www.wrap3.co.uk/
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