Welcome to the Digital Lode!

The Home of Michael Wentworth-Bell, Melbourne-based 3D & Motion-Graphics artist

Recent Project: Shaping Education - Henry Bastow
3D Modelling and Rendering: BASF Print Ad
Recent Project: Timomatic - Swisse Ultivites
Recent Project: Battle of Darwin Experience
Recent Project: Ipad App Trailer
Classic Project: Rex Belfast - Head in the Clouds
Personal Project: Bliss

G’day & welcome to the Digital Lode!

My name is Michael Wentworth-Bell & I am a 3D generalist and Motion Graphics artist based in Melbourne, Australia. The ‘Lode‘ is my online website featuring my portfolio, blog, a ‘Motherlode’ of tutorials, project walkthroughs, personal projects & artwork. Thanks for stopping by. Feel free to drop me a line via my blog or contact page. You can also checkout my LODE facebook page if you’d like to be notified when I update this site.

My latest Showreel (is coming soon!):

My current showreel is Coming Very Soon! I have not updated my site/reel in nearly 2 years. I’m now working on my showreel version 2.0 featuring my favourite projects since my previous ‘graduate’ showreel in 2011.

Showreel 2.0 is almost complete! In the meantime, you can view my 2011 Student Showreel below:

This showreel was created in December, 2011. For a look at my more recent work, please check out the portfolio section of this site!

Some items from my portfolio:

A selection of recent projects from the LODE porfolio are shown below.
You can view the complete folio here.

BASF – Mining print Ad CGI

I was hired by Green Team Australia to create Computer generated imagery for one of their BASF print ads which …

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Battle of the Bands – 60′s Themed Poster Design

A 60′s themed poster design for a recent Battle of the Bands event. I had a lot of fun putting this together in Photoshop and Illustrator!

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Tony Robinson’s London Games Unearthed – 3D Zeus Model

Tony Robinson’s “London Games Unearthed” is a 60 minute documentary of East London’s history and the construction of the Olympic park in the lead-up to the 2012 Olympic games. I helped create and animate a 3D model of the 13 metre high Greek statue of Zeus, one of the ancient 7 wonders of the world.

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Shaping Education – Henry Bastow III

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Swisse Ultivites – Timomatic

A series of TVCs produced for Swisse and featuring TImomatic. I was responsible for post-work on these Ads which included chroma keying, lights, lasers, atmosphere, Pack shots & Supers.

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Defence Of Darwin Experience

The Bombing of Darwin Experience is an 11 minute long animated retelling of the morning of February 19th, 1942. It uses 3D animation, light, sound with re-animated photos from the actual day in order to give an immersive depiction of the Japanese bombing of Darwin.

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