tito.la » National http://tito.la john nguyen. 3d animator. motion graphics. visual effects. photographer Sat, 05 May 2012 23:15:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 American Express/ Playdoh – National Television http://tito.la/2008/09/02/american-express-playdoh/ http://tito.la/2008/09/02/american-express-playdoh/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:21:39 +0000 tito http://www.tito.la/?p=75 American Express Play Doh UK

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!

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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.

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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.
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]]> http://tito.la/2007/04/07/39/feed/ 0 Honda Odyssey/Respect the Van – National Television http://tito.la/2006/12/21/honda-odyssey/ http://tito.la/2006/12/21/honda-odyssey/#comments Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:49:10 +0000 tito http://www.tito.la/?p=22

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.
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]]> http://tito.la/2006/12/04/zantac-volcano/feed/ 0 Volvo C30/ Picnic – National Television http://tito.la/2006/11/05/volvo-c30-picnic/ http://tito.la/2006/11/05/volvo-c30-picnic/#comments Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:00:00 +0000 tito http://www.tito.la/?p=199

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]]> http://tito.la/2006/11/04/volvo-c30-sea/feed/ 0 Coke/ Itunes – National Television http://tito.la/2006/08/28/coke-itunes/ http://tito.la/2006/08/28/coke-itunes/#comments Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:43:31 +0000 tito http://www.tito.la/?p=16

This was one of those “turbo” projects that was conceptualized, animated, and finished within 8 or 9 days at National.

Hansoo Im modeled, Kevin Walker and I animated, and I composited in After Effects.

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