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Creating the burn

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:30:47 +0000

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).

Site updates #3 – burning film

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:04:09 +0000

Updated the Showroom with 3 animated/graphical spots, the latest being one for Renault called Hot Offer. Check it out.

Simple breakdown of a non-simple comp

admin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:08:21 +0000

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 whole commercial in my Showroom.

Site updates #2

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:37:30 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:50:51 +0000

A short breakdown of a shot from a recent commercial, which you can check out in my Showroom.

Basic sky replacement and cleanup

admin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:28:47 +0000

Something I had to do today. Pretty straightforward stuff.

Showreel 2008 – first cut

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:15:19 +0000

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!

Music in reel is We Are Rockstars by Does It Offend You, Yeah?

Site updated

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:00:55 +0000

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 past few years, and I’ll put that there when it’s done as well.

I will also try to post some stuff here, if I make some new ‘discoveries’ or if I have anything interesting regarding vfx to say. But, don’t hold your breath, it might take a while.

Till next time…

Compositing excercise #2 – digital tattoo – revisit

admin — Sat, 26 May 2007 16:29:59 +0000

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 really big difference, but it’s noticeable.

I also adjusted the colors so it looks more like a tattoo now.

I’m thinking of trying to write a plugin for Grid Warp, but for now I neither have any idea on how to do it, nor do I have the time for it.

Watch digital_tattoo_test.002.mov

Compositing excercise #2 – digital tattoo

admin — Sat, 26 May 2007 13:28:18 +0000

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 a nice reference for warping.

When I loaded the thing up in Shake, I noticed that it was missing a tool, that would really come in handy – Grid Warp. I mean, don’t get me wrong, Warper is great, but for this I could’ve really used the grid warp (so, if anybody knows of a plugin for that, or even if that tool does exist in Shake and I just missed it – please, let me know). Well, I ended up using the Warper, so I didn’t get all the flexes in the middle exactly as it should be, since I only had the shape on the outer markers (all nicely attached to a tracker – even that took me a while to figure out, since Warper’s shapes didn’t give me the option to attach the knots to trackers; so I had to make a standalone rotoshape, attach the knots to the trackers and then bake them and copy the shape back in the Warper). After that all I was left with was the marker removal (a little Quickpaint, combined with the trackers and I was all set).

It all came out quite nice for the 20 minutes I spent on it (most of which I spent searching the web for any information about Grid Warp and also trying to attach the knots to the tracker). I didn’t spend much time on making the tattoo believable. It was more of a warping/tracking/marker/etc. test. I still think it lacks the in between warping (the inner four points), but for that I’d need a grid warp… so…

Watch digital_tattoo_test.001.mov