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Redemption: Transforming Lives – Hold Us In Your Mercy

Posted in Compositing, Documentary on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is the first in a dramatic series that focuses on the transformational care, rehabilitation, and the love given through the Humane Society of Knox County, Maine.

V1 – Composition, soundtrack, placeholder graphics, and basic color grade.
VNext – Title graphics and voice over (?).

What can be done to make this better? I would like to hear from you.


Filmed with a Canon XL-H1, composited in FCP, sound treatment in Soundtrack Pro, and color correction in Color.

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Fight Scene

Posted in Compositing on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Fight scenes are truly one of the most difficult sequences to choreograph, film, and composite. This brief scene not only highlights the talent of these two superb martial artists, but the nature of cutting together complex action sequences.

Check out Fight Scene

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Spores Invade School

Posted in Cinema 4D, Compositing, Nuke, Syntheyes on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

School yards can be a very dangerous place to work and play, especially during cold and flue season. In what appears to be a normal everyday school yard, these deadly spores are on patrol looking for their next victim. Could it be you?

While not exactly a true to life Scifi, this was another visual effects exploration that encompassed a lot of work flow elements. This composite combine Syntheyes tracking to create a point cloud; C4D 3D modeling, shadowing, and dynamics; and Nuke compositing.

Check the Spores out!

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LA Signage – Jerry A Smith

Posted in Cinema 4D, Compositing, Shake, Syntheyes, tagged , , on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I always wanted my own personal advertising signage atop the skyscrapers of LA. But with the price of real estate and advertising, personalize bill boards are out the reach for most of us. This is the next best thing!

Check it out!

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AfterWorld – Exploration of 3D Animation and Stereoscopics in Nuke

Posted in Animation, Compositing, Nuke, tagged on November 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

In the spirit of AfterWorld.tv, this dark composition is brought to to life in an animated 3D and stereoscopic Nuke world. Writer Brent V. Friedman and artist/filmmaker Michael DeCourcey proved that simple 3D animations could be used to create complex atypical science fiction backdrops using naturalistic future settings, modeled after traditional western movie motifs.

Check it out!

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I Love Sarah Jane – Post Viral Apocalypse

Posted in Compositing, tagged , , , , , on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Devastation and destruction – two boys walk through the decaying aftermath of a post viral apocalypse. In a world where being too close can turn you into a zombi, their day-to-day struggle to survive is captured in this one scene. Check this composite out.

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iPod Car Commercial

Posted in Compositing, tagged , , , , , on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Apple iPods and iPhones play an important social role in our everyday lives, whether connecting us to our friends or to our favorite entertainment media. In this segment of a commercial spot, we see a lovely driver visualizing her music as she drives down a country road. Check out this composite.

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Terrorist Explode North Atlantic Oil Rig

Posted in Compositing, tagged , , , , , on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On the remote North Sea Oil Rig F3 during a ragging northeastern storm, suspected terrorist detonate a high explosive bomb as the military helicopters and tugs look on helplessly. Or, so the story line goes. 

Oil Rig Explosion is a complex composite given the number of different scene elements that needed to be treated, composited, and color corrected. Note the interaction of the lightening with the oil rig, ocean, and particularly the helicopters. The explosion also engulfs the back half of the drilling rig as it unfolds.

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2008: A Space Oddity

Posted in Compositing, tagged , , , on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

2008: A Space Oddity

Arthur C. Clarke has nothing to worry about as this intrepid ship explores our galaxy and beyond.

 

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Sin City Dancers – Awesome Cinematic Style

Posted in Compositing, tagged , , , , , on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sin City Dancers is composited in the style of the movie Sin City. This 2005 feature film ushered in a period of cinematic style consisting of sleekly rendered characters with stark silhouettes, shadows, colored in black and white accented with a minimalist color scheme. This compositing technique represent one approach to creating this cinematic style.

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