Landscapes and seascapes
There's an awesome pool of musical talent in S. Devon
which surfaces mostly at jam nights in local pubs where amateur,
pro and semi-pro get together play and enjoy each other's
music. The shots in this collection are from Tuesday nights at the
Church House Inn, Stokeinteignhead, just outside Torquay
Every year, around August, the Newton Abbot race course gives over to Lemonfest,
South Devon's biggest music festival. In 2010 Reef headlined, I
managed to blag a pit pass and covered my first music event for many years.
The Town of St Marychurch celebrates the Royal Wedding of 2010 with a street party in Fore Street. Food, ballon sculpting,
face painting and a magician.
Once or twice a month I visit James Sharpe, drum teacher, for instruction and
from time to time we trade photography instead of money for lessons. Here are some shots of his
new studio just outside Totnes
Portraits and street photography
In April 1981, around lunchtime, I stepped out of a shop in Brixton and
a car burst into flames some 20 yards up the street, marking the start of the
worst episode of civil disobedience Britain had
seen in over 100 years. These are some of the pictures from that day
Photographic ramblings
A collection of snaps, sketches and moments captured on iPhone.Kim Aldis is a former computer animator and special effects artist who now spends his time taking photographs in and around South Devon.
He studied Photography at the London College Of Printing and his first job on leaving college in 1978 was working at Gabrin and Mills where for three years he was an assistant director involved in making pop videos for, amongst others, Madness and Ian Dury.
Following this, he spent some time as a freelance photographer working within the music industry before making the move into 3D computer animation at Digital Pictures, which at the time was a pioneering company in the then fledgeling field of CGI. Kim worked on commercials and movies and wrote and developed their 3D modelling software.
In 1985 he became Head of Animation at Digital Pictures overseeing their animation department and coordinating, planning and directing small and large CGI projects.
In 1993 Kim left Digital Pictures to found The Aldis Animation Company. Starting as a one man opertation The Aldis Animation Company quickly became one of the largest fully independent CGI facility in the UK working with most of the major TV companies, leading advertising agencies and design companies both in the UK and abroad producing animated graphics for commercials, TV titles, station indents, games and branding.
Kim sold The Aldis Animation Company in 2001 to spend time freelancing as a CGI animator, technical director and consultant. His services have been in much demand around the world and he is well known in the UK, the USA, Canada, India, the Middle and Far East and Europe.
He co-founded CG Soup in 2005 with leading US CGI artist Brad Gabe. CG Soup provided technical consultancy and training services to the television and movie industries.
Retiring from the CGI world in 2007 Kim moved out of London. He now spends his time in the UK’s South Devon taking photographs of people, the landscape and local musicians.
Gallery
Filmography
- The Golden Compass
- Baron Munchausen (dir. Terry Gilliam)
- The Brothers Grimm (dir. Terry Gilliam)
- Pinocchio (dir. Roberto Begnigni)
- Breakfast On Pluto (dir. Neil Jordan)
Clients
- BBC
- ITV
- Channel 4
- LWT
- JWT
- Young and Rubicam (UK)
- Young and Rubicam (Istanbul)
- Lambie-Nairne
- Psygnosis
- Channel 5
- The Cartoon Network
- Passion Pictures
- Glassworks
- Jim Henson’s Creature Shop (UK)
- Lola Post
- Tangerine (New York)
- Smoke and Mirrors
- Omation Studios (USA)
- Screenscene (Dublin)
- Fluid Pictures
- Rai (Italy)
- RTE (Dublin)
- EMP
- BHS
- Wizja TV (Poland)
- etc
Well…well…LCP, Jim Forrest, Baron von Munchausen, Philip Pullman, Henson’s Creature workshop, Terry Gilliam AND Devon…all a few of my favourite things! Hi Kim! Great to see your site and some of your more recent work…we have not met since student days at the LCP but I see you have done very well since then….bravo!