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Iron Toxicity – AgencyRX

tito — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:45:14 +0000

Got to work with some cool peeps in NYC at AgencyRX. Made this fun piece with them and my buddy Yantabulous.

Skype and Basecamp was a godsend for this project.

You can see the final animated piece online here.

The original design by AgencyRX was a ocean half-dome as shown below. Clients decided to change the ocean half-dome last minute due to legal reasons.

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.

Hp Serena Williams Hands Spot

tito — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:02:00 +0000

Summer of ’07 was my first time back to Stardust since 2003-ish. Amy Kaufman from Stardust inticed me with this project. Seeing how my wife and I are HUGE tennis fanatics ( Honor’s tennis blog ), I was easily convinced in driving all the way to the west side for this one.

I got to spend 2 days on set with Serena Williams as TD alongside with Chris Eckhart for Stardust. First day was a Motion Capture session with Serena.

2nd day was mostly green screen. Joseph Khan was the live action director for HP Serena.

On set, Chris Eckhart and I had to take measurements of Serena to get proper proportions for the CG Serena in the video game section. And lemme tell yah, that shelf in the back was truly a shelf.

After the shoot came down to the nitty gritty. With an army of designers creating look frames for each vignette, and on average 5-6 animators, we started creating each vignette.

I worked on the photo album section, mini-tennis player section, video game section, some other smaller 3d sections, and compositing.

I actually designed the tennis stadium for the video game. Unfortunately the way the camera is framed, you can’t see the entire stadium design, but you can see it here.

Members of the 3d team were Hai Ho, Robin Roepstorff, Chris Eckhart, and a few other peeps i can’t seem to remember off the top of my head.

Also here is an offline roughcut of the 90 second spot. You can see how much work was done before and in the final product. Some shots of Serena in her Motion Capture suit in there.

And of course the gratuitous photo of me and Serena. She signed my Wilson racket and a pink Wilson tennis ball for my wife.

And yes her guns are bigger than mine…

British Airways Attractive Prices #2

tito — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:24:56 +0000

British Airways Attractive Prices #1

tito — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:52:36 +0000

Honda Odyssey/Respect the Van – National Television

tito — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:49:10 +0000

This was another fun project with National. Involved National concepting probably 30+ different vignettes representing 60′s- 70′s nostaligia for the mini-van.

I supervised the car shoot for the end section and lead the 3d team.

I made the lava lamp opener with Realflow, the oil section, the disco rearview mirror, and tracked the Nav screen with BouJou.

Zantac Volcano/ National Television

tito — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:30:16 +0000

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Volvo C30/ Picnic – National Television

tito — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:00:00 +0000