Animation Reel

Effects Breakdown Death of a Flea

Here is a shot I comped on our Short film, Small Sacrifices.

The stop motion footage was shot on a motion control rig using the kuper system. Phil Created the Matte Paints in Photoshop. I then camera mapped them onto 3d geometry in Maya. The snow particles, I made in Maya. Their individual shapes are textures I scanned from little clumps of baking soda, which are randomly assigned to each particle. The rest of the compositing was done in After Effects. The fog was shot practically, in HD, the blue channel had to be removed, because it was noisy garbage. I then used the fog as a matte on a greyish blue solid so the fog could have a more even hue. We dropped a piece of black clay into the fog to have it react.

Here's a labeled version in case any of that was confusing.

In other news, Neil's posted some trailers of Small Sacrifices that can be see here.

And the Film's website will be up soon!

Where Have I Been?

It's almost been a year since my last post on here. I am back and hopefully will be posting new things. I've been working on a project with Neil Baker called small sacrifices. It's pretty much what you get when a louse and a team of flea sherpas climb a snow covered mountain. check out the blog here.

http://smallsacrificesproject.blogspot.com/

There is talk of a new .com site for small sacrifices coming soon

Stay tuned for more animation.

The Cleaning is now online!

Master of Puppets

Watching TCM's Akira Kurosawa 100 birthday marathon, I saw an ad for this



click on the image to see what i'll be doing the 26th.

Raising Wires

The first shot of many to come has finished production. Here's a sneak peak.



I'll be upgrading these images to HD and tweaking the lighting. Check back soon, there's more to come.

Arne Get's a New Look

In an Older Post I revealed some photos of Arne the armature's birth. Well as of yesterday, he has hit puberty. Puberty hit back, and the results are terrifyingly awkward.



Here's a shot of old Arne(or maybe it's young Arne)



I then drew over this image in photoshop to imagine how he might fill out.



Arne in all his tangled glory.



I also stuffed his naughty bits with clay to hide the yellowish epoxy.



Currently listening to Eclectic Electric by Primus