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Creating the burn

This is the breakdown of the layers that went in to creating the film burn effect for the latest spot (you can see the whole spot in my Showroom).
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Site updates #3 – burning film

Updated the Showroom with 3 animated/graphical spots, the latest being one for Renault called Hot Offer. Check it out.
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Simple breakdown of a non-simple comp

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s3.addVariable(”backcolor”,”0×000000″);
s3.addVariable(”frontcolor”,”0xcccccc”);
s3.addVariable(”lightcolor”,”0xffffff”);
s3.addVariable(”logo”,”http://www.zigadolar.com/vfx/showreel/watermark/kerozinlogo.png”);
s3.addVariable(”link”,”http://www.idoen.info”);
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A breakdown of a single-shot 27 second commercial we’ve recently finished. It shows the raw material, the basic comp and the finished product. You can see the [...]

Site updates #2

Updated my Showroom with some more spots that I’ve made or have worked on. Still lacking more compositing shots, but I hear they’re coming my way fast. So, I’ll keep this site updated when I’ll have something more.

CG shot breakdown

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s4.addVariable(”lightcolor”,”0xffffff”);
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A short breakdown of a shot from a recent commercial, which you can check out in my Showroom.

Basic sky replacement and cleanup

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Something I had to do today. Pretty straightforward stuff.

Showreel 2008 – first cut

I’ve edited some of my best shots from the past couple of years together in to my new showreel (had to update my old one). All of the projects, where the shots are from, can be seen in my showroom.
This reel features the work I’ve done as a compositor and shows about all my skills.
Enjoy!
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Site updated

After a really long time I updated this site with some of my work. In the top navigation I’ve added a link called Showroom, where I’ll be putting videos of the projects I’ve worked (and will work) on.
I’m also putting together a new and updated showreel, cause I’ve gathered quite some material in the [...]

Compositing excercise #2 – digital tattoo – revisit

I went back in again and decided I’m gonna make this look like it should. And I wasn’t gonna let the lack of Grid Warp stop me. So I fashioned one by making 9 square shapes into a grid in the Warper tool, and animated those. And it turned out quite nice. It’s not a [...]

Compositing excercise #2 – digital tattoo

Playing around again. This time I got the idea, that I’d like to try compositing a tattoo on a moving person. So I recorded a few seconds long clip of me moving my hand around, on which I would later composite something tattooish. I drew a grid of markers on my hand, so I’d have [...]