studio: Tim Hunter Design (THD)
client: Exxon Mobil

So I had the chance to work with a great group of freelancers for a few months over at THD. We were revamping a few spots for Exxon Mobil, taking previous low quality 3d animation and giving it more of a realistic and high quality twist to it. I got to take several shots practically from beginning to end, submitting style frames every week and pumping out HD animations like a mad man.

Here are a few stills that represent the work I was doing:

Most of this was modeling, texturing, look developing, and then some camera work. These are stills from various points of each of the scenes I worked on and later during production they were picked up by other artists for changes requested by the client.

My sister is a collage artist.  Together we did a little project where she came up with a sketch which I used to make a 3d model, I then passed the UVW texture coordinates to her to collage, finally the collage was wrapped onto the bird and rendered.

here’s the UVW flats that my sister collaged for the texture of the bird

and here’s the sketch that started the collaboration

Starting late in 2009 and into early 2010, I’ve been working at Longtail Studios as their ‘motion capture specialist’.  This basically entailed learning all there was to learn about the Xsens motion capture suit, as well as building the pipeline of getting the data from the suit onto a computer, into motionbuilder, and finally 3dsmax.

hope everyone had a nice break and a happy new year.
I was able to pull of this double sided card right before the holidays

along with a video breakdown!

Another project for SURROUND. Lower thirds and bug for Nickelodeon’s ‘Massive Movie Monday’ – It wasn’t used by Nick but it was a good exercise in using 3dmax with after effects. All elements, the text for the bug, the stars, and camera with spinning reels was done in 3dmax.

the bug

tada.

I worked for a week on some Nickelodeon ident stuff with this studio SURROUND.  The first batch of animations were for the pitch package to  Nick. Based on illustrators drawings, I 3d modeled their likeness and brought them to life.

best example

each of these was done in around half a day to a day, basically sketches to help give Nickelodeon a better idea of how the illustrations would come to life.

While working at Firstborn, I got to help in visualizing two new rooms for the GE lighting styles site.  The project went as smooth as butter and I had a blast working on it and getting it tweaked just right. There was no room to go all photoshop gung-ho since each room needed to be rendered into six versions, each with a single light being added to the scene.

Here was the end result:

Two different styles of the same room.  The first is a ‘dramatic’ theme and the second is an ‘eco’ theme.

Logo #1
So recently I worked on some logos in 3d for Bureau Blank
The first was a logo for a film production house, American Original. The basic need was an earth, an eagle, and the name of the company. Below are the various revisions that went into the logo.

Logo #2
I recreated in 3d a Synergy Ball, a model of a tensegrity sphere. Font/text placement designed by Viktor @ Bureau Blank We had full control over the shapes that made up the sphere, giving us ease in tweaking towards the perfect look for the client.

business cards are here, ka’ching!

So the last four weeks I’ve been hard at work over at Bureau Blank. I just finished the animation I was working on for them. It was an animation for Elite, a company that designs experiential marketing for brands, explaining their process to their clients. The project turned out to be a minute and a half long. Work was broken down like ‘dis: first week was character and set design and building, second week was building one particular scene to final look and feel status, third week was building out all the rest of the scenes in a similar fashion, leaving the last week to put final touches on the animation and render/composite.

Overall I had a great time at Bureau Blank, getting to spend time with Brendan, Dan, Erin, Leah, and Viktor. Thanks guys!

Here is some of the old images and animatic from the early stages of the project. The final animation will be on my projects page soon. The final animation is listed on the projects page, right below the reel. Check it out!