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ESPN U Broadcast Package – National Television

tito — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:00:22 +0000

Here is where i spent the last 6 months of my life. Working with the boys at National Television cranking out 800+ deliverables in HD for the ESPN U channel. Below is a montage that Brumby cut together for the National site. I plan on posting full animations hopefully in the near future.
There are alot of fun pieces that weren’t even in the montage. Big cred goes out to all the peeps who worked on ESPN U.

3d peeps in alphabetical order: Gene Arvan, Vinh Chung, Hao Cui, Kimberly Im, Andy Kim, Grace Lee, Yan Ng, Sal Rangel, Catherine Yoo
3d teams leads: Me and Hai Ho.
Art Directors: Brumby Boylston and Brian Won
Producers: Rebecca Blankenship and Dina Chang

ESPN U Montage

Robitussin Realflow style frames for IF

tito — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:06:30 +0000

2009 was definitely the year of Realflow for me. I believe this Robitussin pitch was my third Realflow job of the year. Two too many in my opinion. This job went to the way-side for Imaginary Forces due to some communication problems with the client unfortunately.

Could have been a fun 3d project, but I’m probably thankful for not having to sit through another Realflow simulation. I swear I think i lost a few weeks of my life this year just waiting for fluid simulations.

(Sorry for the watermarked images, i know how peeps like to take and grab from websites)

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Sprint Now Network/ Moving Day – Superfad

tito — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:45:16 +0000

My third project for Superfad. Worked on the end shot and helped out in modeling a few objects for one of their many Sprint Now Network campaigns.

Wagner Paint – Superfad

tito — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:15:01 +0000

My first project for Superfad. Met alot of cool chill peeps there. Great place to work for. Worked with Will Campbell (AD) and David Clayton (The 3d guy, not the art director from Picture Mill) Number two of three Realflow jobs I’ve done for 2009. In 2010, I swear I’m only going to allow for one Realflow job per year.

Deadliest Catch Promo for Discovery Channel – Imaginary Forces

tito — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:38:44 +0000

Worked with Stan Lim on this one at Imaginary Forces. All the splashes are done in Realflow. Also below is a sample of a mega-simulation i did to test my “splashbox”. Sorry for the low quality movie, ill try to update with a higher quality version once i get my grubby little hands on a high quality one from IF.

Davidoff Cigarettes – Ironclaw

tito — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:33:37 +0000

A small quickie project me and Robin worked on for Iron Claw back in early 2008. Believe it was for a web campaign.
Maya and After Effects.

Transformers 2 Early Main Title Concept Animatic

tito — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:26:10 +0000

It’s too bad this didn’t make the cut for Transformers 2 the movie main title. This could have been a really rad main title sequence.
I worked with Noah Olmstead and Nate Homan on this 2 week conceptual phase/pitch for Imaginary Forces.
Storyboarding out billions of moving/tranforming parts wasn’t a good idea, so instead we went straight into Maya and brainstormed this guy up. Basically a “powers of ten” exploration of a transformers all the way down to DNA size, and pulling out to reveal the main title type.

American Express/ Playdoh – National Television

tito — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:21:39 +0000

This has to be my absolute favorite project for 2008.

It was one of those projects that posed new technical/creative problems but were truly fun to figure out.

National actually beat out Ardman Animation’s when they bid on this job (good job kev).

The sections i worked on were the transition from flowers to lobster, lobster to drums, the credit card and alot of R&D with Hai Ho, Jose Ortiz, Diffan Normad, and Kevin Walker.

Also met a new talented freelance animator with a great attitude, Grace Lee, towards the 2nd half of the project. WHASSUP GRACE!

Californication Promo for Showtime – National Television

tito — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:48:09 +0000

This was a fun one. National loved how the Red cameras performed on their Friskies commercial and wanted to use them again. I was stoked too. Was my first shoot using the Red camera setup.

We had 2 cameras shooting simultaneously, tested keys after each lighting setups.

Was phenomenal. The DP could see where the green screen had issues on the fly and tweak the lighting setups as needed.

David Duchovny was much taller than I thought. He seemed pretty much as he does in character he plays as Hank Moody in Californication. Either he is normally like that character, or he’s that good of a actor that he was TOTALLY in character.

I’m thinking its the former and not the later.

Was 2 days total of shooting. Had to setup quite a few tracking markers on alot of the setups.

Once we were in post, we had about 41 shots to key, track, and generate some CG for. Some shots bigger than others.

In the beginning it was mostly Preston Brown and I, then Ash Wagers came on, and then Jose Ortiz came on the help wrap up the CG work.

Honda Drive Every Drop/ National Television

tito — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:00:46 +0000

After coming home from a nice 5 week vacation in Southeast Asia, I came back to LA and jumped over to National to help on this lil gem.

I was definitely stoked to be on this project when i saw the boards.

I was mostly there for some 3d support. The deadline was a little hairy and the boys needed some backup.

I worked on the initial oil drop, grass duties, the kite, hot air balloon, and lighting/rendering.