Baggage Footage and the Wonderful World of Color Grading
It’s no secret that ever since Apple pulled out the rug from us Final Cut Pro users and unleashed the horror that was/is FCP X, I’ve been slowly distancing myself from Apple software. So, for my latest short, Baggage, I decided from the start that I would complete the entire project in the Adobe Creative [...]
Blowing Stuff Up
In my previous post I mentioned that I have been doing a lot more compositing work as of late. Here’s yet another example for an Air Force video I’ve been working on. The original shot was built in Cinema 4D. I then took the Cinema output and composited smoke trails, flares, and some explosions that would [...]
Compositing Fun!
I’ve been working like a dawg lately, so as you might guess, that means not much time for posting. Though, the stuff I’m meddling with is definitely taking me into some new directions. I’ve never been great at compositing people on green screen. For some reason, it always looks uber-fake (like those terrible novelty photo [...]
Updated Graphic Reel
So, I finally got my act together and made an updated Demo Reel with some newer stuff on it. Check it! Song is “This is War” from Ben Kweller.
Nerd Rage! Animated Bumper
More fun with Cinema 4D! My buddy Jonathan London asked me once again to make an animated intro to a new web series of his, so what can I say? I was happy to oblige. The series should premiere on Machinma in the next few weeks. I had a good time experimenting with dynamics in [...]
Save the Date
I mentioned in my previous post that I’ve been working on a lot of various projects as of late. Well, I’m happy to report that I can finally show one of them off. To those unaware, I proposed to my girlfriend of over two years a few months ago in Walt Disney World. As a [...]
My lens flare is so bright I need shades
Every once in a while you come across something so brilliant that your mind practically explodes because of its awesomeness. This is one of those times. The graphics gurus over at the daily planet made this hilarious little musical romp depicting the lowly like of the motion designer. Granted, it’s a little “inside baseball” for [...]
NPC’s Bumper Part Deaux
My friend and fellow filmmaker, Jonathan London, is busy trying to launch a new L.A.-based web-series called “N.P.C.’s” (that’s Non-Playable Characters for all you noobs out there). He asked me to help him out by making an animated bumper for the show’s intro. My initial try came off as too “dark and serious” for a [...]
More fun with Cinema 4D
Keeping my experimentation with 3-D animation and modeling alive, a friend asked me to build a bumper for his upcoming web-series. The result was a faux video-game graphic piece that combined Cinema 4D and After Effects. The result looked pretty cool–though he eventually passed on the bumper, and we’re currently working on a different, “less-polished” [...]
Making Good on New Year’s Resolutions
Way back in January of this year, I made a resolution that I was finally going to start learning a 3D program. Well, who would of thunk it? I actually…did it! And, who says people never actually follow through on those sorts of things? Over the past month or so, I started fooling around with [...]