Andy Burrows – Boxes

May 22, 2009 by

This was a job completed at McKeown Devita Productions

Work required
I was brought in quite late into production to help out with just a few of the shots.  These were the front and end movement of the camera into and out of the house, and the musical notes moving around the young boy in a whirlwind shape. 
The movement into the house required the original 2d artwork to be cut into “panels” and have the perspective removed so I could build a similar room but using After Effects (AE) 3d.  We wanted some feeling of depth and distance from the objects so by recreating the scene in 3d we could achieve a more realistic camera feel than with the original artwork.  It is subtle but helps the otherwise static shot.
The other shot I worked on is just past the middle (about 55 seconds) it has the boy being held in the air by a vortex of wind with the musical notes spiraling around it.  This also used 3d in AE with the notes being hand animated but also parented to various null objects to help with regular motions, for example moving in a regular circle around the boy.

Filed Under: AE, Longform, Music Video, Postproduction, Work-Journal

Pot Noodle

May 22, 2009 by

This was a job completed at McKeown Devita Productions

Work required
Set of 3 already edited “viral’s” for Pot Noodle. The brief was to add karaoke style text, rather than the yellow bouncing ball a pot of Pot Noodle would bounce along to show you what word you should be singing. They were all of similar length to the example above and were completed in 2days which allowed time for some tweaks by the client.

Filed Under: Advert, AE, Postproduction, Shortform, Work-Journal

Harry Hill – Tv Burp

May 22, 2009 by

This was a job completed at BEanimation.

Work required
Normally it is changing the content of the televisions, this is done maybe quarterly to match any new tv shows that they wish to promote/ have recognised in the title sequence.

I have worked on changing the titles to a RED NOSE day theme, and also they had requested a Christmas styled title. This had extra props placed in,trees, presents, tinsel, along with snow and glitter and flashing lights.

Filed Under: AE, Postproduction, Shortform, TV Title, Work-Journal

Johnny Flynn – The Box

May 20, 2009 by


This was a job completed at McKeown Devita Productions

Work required
I worked on colouring some of the drawn animation.  Originally it was going to look like a magic marker style fill but also with splats of colour, some shots were done by myself and liked but it was felt to late in the production to carry this style on through out the video, unfortunately the style was dropped.  The shot left in that I was involved in setting up, is the final shot where we have a box in a box in a box…This used After Effects 3d camera to get the correct feeling of moving towards something very large to very small (adjusting scale only would not work in this shot because it does not work in the same way as a real camera would when moving towards an object).
Below is a clip of the 4 pieces I had coloured, these were not used unfortunately.

Filed Under: AE, Longform, Music Video, Postproduction, Work-Journal

Arena –

May 20, 2009 by

This was a short piece created for advertising the look and feel of a website.

Filed Under: Advert, AE, Postproduction, Shortform, Work-Journal

Nesquik – Code Yellow

May 18, 2009 by

This was a job completed at BEanimation.

Work required
Required rig removal (shots 1,2,5,7,8,and 9).  Shot 6 the CG google view required a clearer pack than what was supplied to us there was no time to ask them to change it so we tracked in new artwork, this included a larger basket.  There were also changes made to the white house to give the roof a feeling of some age without making it look to tattered.  Shot 11 had some cosmetic work done to tidy up the fingernails of the young girl (hand painting new nails), also the skin was smoothed to remove blemishes. The text wipe on the toy was done during post.
The rest of the shots required the bunny to have his tones applied and integrated into the environment.  This is done with rotoscoping, and drawing of cast shadows and contact shadows.
Worked with clients during a 2 day post to make any changes they required.  Master tapes were created onto a digi-beta.

Shot 11 breakdown

Filed Under: Advert, AE, Breakdowns, Postproduction, Shortform, Work-Journal

Pitch –

May 12, 2009 by


This pitch was completed at McKeown Devita Productions

Work required
The background artwork was created with the idea of having the camera pan and the feeling of multiple levels all moving and interacting, unfortunately you do not get to see this so much as most of the live action was shot stationary.  Because of time constraints (2days during the weekend) we were not able to shot on chroma key screens.  The video was shot against a relatively plain white wall in the office with a DV camera.  This required the keying to be separated off into different areas and treated differently as there was also much motion blur which I was trying to keep.  Most of the first day was tackled with selecting footage we thought might work with the ink spraying, and also getting her cut from the background.  This left just one day to build a nice background and to animate some ink splats that would be thrown out from her hands or general body gestures in one direction.  There are some scenes that work much better and show more what we wanted to achieve but time beat us in the end.

Filed Under: AE, Pitch, Work-Journal
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