Just finished working on ‘I’m Here’, a short film directed by Spike Jonze for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. I was told that this film opened the festival today. We were given the near impossible task of completing a 35 min Visual Effects intensive film and only had about 8 weeks to do it. It was definitely a huge learning experience for me as it was my first time leading a small team of matchmove artists. I was lucky to be part of such an amazing group of talented artists to pull this one off.
Probably one of the funnier projects that I got to work on...for this "Rock Opera" I got to work with Andy Boyd on creating the look of "Milkquarious City". This was also the first time I worked with Christine Verzosa, who helped out on matchmoving/tracking. I modeled the city in Maya and Andy did an amazing job on lighting / rendering it in Houdini. We were fortunate to have some creative freedom in terms of adding our own bits of detail to bring more to the city. The original Milkquarious was actually a practical miniature set that didn't have as much detail so we decided on replacing the opening shot with a full cg version. We added a few elements such as the Blimp, monorail system, and elevators to bring a bit more life to it. I also did the animation of 'Bovina', the unicorn cow's wings and sliding door retraction, which saved us from integrating the wings in about 20 other shots. I also designed / rendered the lair of "Nasterious", the villain of White Gold. Link to official website and video.
One of the 3 spots for Scion we are doing...Got to do a lot of different things on this campaign, from modeling, setting up shaders, and lighting / rendering. We are all excited about how things turned out.
Here's one of the recent projects that I worked on for TheLadders.com. It's a funny spot with a bunch of tiny monsters...mix of practical and cg. Another chance for me to work with Andy Boyd and learn many things in the process. I got to create the tiny rock that the monster throws at the window hehe. I also did some 3d roto for shadow interaction.
Our parent company Ascent Media had put out an internal logo redesign contest which I had entered. Here's the final logo from the Ascent Media logo contest. It was a wonderful opportunity to be involved with the changing of the new logo. I honestly had no idea that it would come this far and am very grateful to have the logo chosen to represent Ascent Media Group. Throughout the design process, I was able to meet / collaborate with some really amazing people, Jose Royo (CEO of Ascent Media) & Teresa Jimenez (Creative Director of Ascent Media).
