LV VFX breakdown
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
To kick off 2014 I have a VFX breakdown of a faux Louis Vuitton commercial i did for my reel a few months ago. I’ve had some time over the Christmas break to go through the nuke scripts and do a VFX breakdown of the appropriate shots. Everything is a mish mash as far as colour goes as I knew I’d finish in black and white.
As always let me know what you think in the comments below.
Breakdown:
https://vimeo.com/83657007
Commercial:
Comping the Victoria Falls shot!
Friends! A few of you have asked how I went about compositing the Victoria Falls shot. Well, I’ve recorded a VFX breakdown. I hope it helps! Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. All the best!
Software used:
Maya, After Effects, Photoshop, Nuke, internet.
PRE-VIZ: Skate commercial – Decks
This commercial would be so fucking cool if we can just get it animated and finished!
This is one of the older versions of the pre-viz. The black bit in the middle hasn’t had the pre-viz inserted.
Almost skateboards – double impact!
The idea: 3 skater crash test dummies (vert skater, street skater and freestyle skater) test the board to it’s breaking point. The vert skater (BLUE) has jet packs, street skater (GRAY) has a suspension system on his legs to perform incredible jumps and lands and freestyle (GREEN) has hydraulic pumps to stress test the board.
I’m still having trouble getting it animated as everyone is way to busy. I’ve built everything and it’s pretty much ready for rendering. Below is the pre-vis and a few render tests and model views for the different skaters.
Here are some renders and viewport screenshots of the skaters.
Vert skater texture render tests:
QUT Virtual Reef
I’ve recently finished work on the “QUT Virtual Reef” as the “3D generalist” touching pretty much everything except animation. I mainly did modeling and texturing. The Virtual Reef is located at the Queensland University of Technology in the Science and technology precinct. It took a core team of 6, 2 years to make. It’s the largest interactive mulit-touch system in the world. My good friend Warwick Mellow who was the lead animator/art director on the project posted this video he made.
If you’re in Brisbane, Australia check it out if you can! 🙂
Warwick is the dude in the video.
Pre-viz: Is your home a smoke free zone?
Pre-viz I did for an anti-smoking spec Ad. You can see the finished version HERE.
Making-of Headsmen
In 2010 I made a short film – “Headsmen”. For reasons other than just making a film, Headsmen was a vehicle to explore a few things; to fail upward if you will. I made this .PDF “making of” as some sort of archive document. If you’re interested, you can download and check it out below.
It’s 28mb and you need Adobe Reader to view if properly. DOWNLOAD
Sean make movie. 