Studio: Discovery

Role: Model, Texture, Light, Animate, Simulate, Composite

Software: Maya/VRay, Phoenix FD, C4D, Forester, Substance Painter, After Effects. This project remains shelved but was great fun to work on. It combined elements from all the popular Warner Bros/Discovery Channel shows. Look closely and you’ll see a great white shark thrashing behind the boat.

CLIENT: U.S. Army
STUDIO: The Mill, Los Angeles
ROLE: Animate / Final Comp

CLIENT: Hallmark
STUDIO: Charlie Company
ROLE: All Texturing and Lighting (C4D/Octane)

A shoot had been planned and quickly canceled when covid arrived. The clever and talented crew at Charlie Co. came up with a work-around where everyone could stay home while we created a completely digital solution for the show’s promo.

CLIENT: Discovery Channel
STUDIO: Discovery Creative
ROLE: Model, Texture, Animate, Light, Composite
SOFTWARE: C4D, After Effects

Quick solar system (<8 hrs). One of many vfx shots completed for Discovery Channel’s rebrand.

CLIENT: Activision
STUDIO: Hecho
ROLE: Animate / Final Composite

This cinemagraph (looping animated billboard) was displayed all over NYC as part of the Call of Duty - Modern Warfare launch

Studio:  Royale
Role:  Texture, Light
Software: Maya, Vray
 

Studio: Ayzenberg
Role: Look Dev | Lighting | Texturing | Compositing
Software:  Maya, Vray, After Effects, Photoshop

Fun project for Facebook.  I was involved with developing the look of the clear blue cubes throughout, lighting/comp the boxer falling cubes scene at the intro, lighting/comp the intro text cubes, texturing the 2 mech suits in the escape pod room with scratched painted metal textures, lighting the end scene with bazillion cubes.

CLIENTS: MANY
ROLE: Rigging / Modeling / Texturing / Animation / Lighting / Particles / Dynamics
STUDIOS: Brickyard, Belief, Superfad, Picturehead, Krypton, Blind

Previous reel.  Sad to see half the studios on the older reel are no longer.  R.I.P. Belief, Superfad and Krypton.  (yes, I modeled / rigged / animated the famous PS3 octopus with suction cup speakers. We had no pipeline which just made it that much more exciting).

[NOTE: PLEASE IGNORE THE 818 PHONE NUMBER ]

CLIENT: Microsoft
STUDIO: Ayzenberg
ROLE: Look Dev / Lighting / Compositing
SOFTWARE: Maya, VRay, After Effects

Textured, Lit and rendered several shots including the internals using Maya and VRay. 

CLIENT: 90,000 Feet
ROLE: Track, Model, Texture, Animate, Light, Comp
SOFTWARE: PF Track, Maya, Red Shift Render, After Effects, Trapcode Particular

Unsuspecting vacationing couple gets attacked by a drone!  Promo piece for 90,000 Feet shot in Cancun. I created the drone shots only.  Will upload the final edit when available.

CLIENT: Discovery Channel
STUDIO: Discovery Creative
ROLE: Design / Animate / Comp

Info-graphic designed to explain the function of the Vagus Nerve for a Discovery Channel program

CLIENT: LAYS POTATO CHIPS - CANADA
STUDIO: Imaginary Forces
ROLE: Design | Model | Animate | Texture |
Light | Final Composite
SOFTWARE: Maya | Mental Ray

This was a fun solo project.  It's great when you get to do everything!  (Art Direction from Ronnie Kopf).  Sometimes the simplest things can be difficult. In this case modeling the bags to with this specific look of wrinkles, folds and glossiness was a challenge.

CLIENT: Self
ROLE: Everything
SOFTWARE: C4D | Turbulence FD | AE

Self Promo work in progress.  Took about 1 day of fluid simulation then a few hours of rendering and comping. Need to add sound.

CLIENT: Discovery Channel
STUDIO: Discovery Creative
ROLE: 3D Track / Model / Paint / Animate / Render / Roto / Final Composite
SOFTWARE: PF Track, Maya, Vray, After Effects

The official stadium for the puppy bowl and a shoot that was scheduled on a very rainy day (Complete background replacement)

CLIENT: DISCOVERY CHANNEL
STUDIO: Discovery Creative
ROLE: Model / Texture / Animate / Light / Render / Comp
SOFTWARE: Maya, C4D, X-Particles, Real FLow, Turbulence FD, After Effects

Discovery Chanel promo with elements from several, if not all of their shows

CLIENT: ABC
STUDIO: Loyal Kaspar
CONTRIBUTION: Look Dev / Lighting / Final Composite
SOFTWARE: Maya, VRay, C4D, After Effects

We went the extra mile for ABC in exploring various treatments to the ABC logo.  Everything from Cloth sims to particles and streaks, etc.  Exciting project to work on knowing it would literally be seen by millions.

CLIENT: VIZIO
STUDIO: Mirada
CONTRIBUTION: X Particles / Compositing
SOFTWARE: C4D / After Effects

Iconic images were projected onto clouds made of millions of particles (pixels) representing the richness and depth of VIZIO televisions

CLIENT: Washington Lottery
STUDIO: Royale
ROLE: Animate / Texture / Light
SOFTWARE: Maya/Vray

CLIENT: NIKE
STUDIO: MPC
ROLE: Texture / Light
SOFTWARE: Maya / VRay

CLIENT: Infinity Ward
STUDIO: Ant Farm
ROLE: Design / Animate / Composite
SOFTWARE: Maya / Fume FX / After Effects

This animation can be seen in most of the game's promo materials as well as the start of the game.

CLIENT: EA Games
STUDIO: G-Net
ROLE: Design/Model/Texture/Animate/
Dynamics/Fluids Smoke/Light/Final Comp
SOFTWARE:  Maya / After Effects

Basically completed everything up to the point where it reveals the date.

CLIENT: SYFY
STUDIO: CHARLIE CO.
ROLE: Model / Animate / Light / Composite
SOFTWARE: C4D, After Effects

What is more fun than designing and building robots, robot-like gizmos and animating them?  Nothing really.   

CLIENT: NFL Network
STUDIO: Charlie Co.
ROLE: Texture, Lighting and Rendering using Octane for C4D

GPU rendering is the future.  Octane for C4D and RedShift for Maya should be used in every studio. It literally saves days of render time and you can even use GPUs in your current render farm
 

CLIENT: Big Brother TV Show
STUDIO: Charlie Co.
ROLE: Real Flow Sims, Texture, Lighting

Getting water to flow around spiral shapes was a challenge but it can be done!

CLIENT: Absolut
STUDIO: CosmoStreet | Arsenal
ROLE: HDRI Panoramic Photo / Texture / Light / Render / Comp
SOFTWARE: Maya / RedShift Renderer / After Effects / Nuke

Absolut Quality.  I first shot an empty office space using a fisheye lens and several exposures to create a 360 panorama HDRI. This roughly matched reference photos of an Absolut bottling factory in Sweden. I then lit the scene with Maya, rendered using GPU Red Shift Renderer then comped in After Effects.  Some shots comped in Nuke at Arsenal.

CLIENT: Apothic Wine
STUDIO: Wildlife
CONTRIBUTION: Model/Texture/Animate/Light/Final Composite

Helped build an entire CG wine cellar complete with looping elements such as lights, flickering candles and live action characters. 

CLIENT: Witches of East End TV Show
STUDIO: Wildlife
ROLE: Maya Fume FX / PF Track / Light / Final Composite

Several CG shots had to match shots that were done with dry ice on set.  When all your dry ice melts on set, what do you do? Maya's Fume FX to the rescue!  Took some R&D to get it to look like dry ice as well as interact with 3D objects.

CLIENT: Comedy Central
STUDIO: Comedy Central
SOFTWARE:  After Effects / Element 3D
ROLE: Animation / Final Composite

Laughed the entire time creating this.  Comedians were told to "freeze" a pose while standing on a turntable.  There are a LOT of comedians out there as we must have created 100 of these for Comedy Central.  We pushed the AE Plugin Element 3D to it's limit with 3d objects, backgrounds, smoke trails, fire elements, etc.

CLIENT: Toyota
STUDIO: Imaginary Forces
ROLE: Lighting / Animation
SOFTWARE: C4D / Maya / Nuke

Pushed the limits of C4D's ability to handle large quantities of geometry. The render farm was also not happy with us.

CLIENT: Yoplait
STUDIO: Imaginary Forces
ROLE: Model / Texture / Animate / Light
SOFTWARE: Maya / Mental Ray / C4D Mograph

A physical hydrualic actuator with a giant plastic peach was used to generate the big milky wake. How about that transition!  No small task.  

Sorry I was never provided with the audio but I'm sure it sounded something like this.. "la da deeee... la da daaaaaaa..."