Nesquik – Animal Kingdom

June 4, 2009 by

This was a job completed at BEanimation

Work required
Quiky (the rabbit) was placed into the various shots during linetest stage, and later had his tones applied these are various matte runs for shadows, highlights and also in this advert a shadow pass that gave the impression he was receiving shadows being cast from high up in the trees.  Quiky was graded to match the scenes and also integrated (drawn shadows, masking out trees so he walks behind them etc.)
Shot 4 (quiky appearing from behind the tree trunks) required the middle tree to be artworked to look like the others.  It was dug up from somewhere else and planted the wrong way round so you could see it was weathered differently, they felt it could do with a little more light hitting it so this was also artworked in post production.
Shots 11 and 12 (Quiky arriving at the tree house), had the outside grass, and ladder created afterwards.  During the live action shoot this was just a solid floor.  The CDs that the girl is waving in shot 12 were also replaced with clearer artwork and slightly larger.
Shots 13 and 14, had the game footage placed into the computer monitors.  This involved tracking and masking.  the footage was treated to the clients liking to integrate it.
Most of the shots required some form of tracking to lock Quiky into the scene or to speed up any rotoscoping.  They liked the feeling that the live action Director gave with his trademark loose camera work but this did not impact to much on my work afterwards.  There were many areas to get a good track from.
Various versions were mastered to Digi-Beta and delivered to the client.

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

HSS – Elite Athletes

June 3, 2009 by

This was a job completed at BEanimation.

Work required
The animation was roughed out in house as drawn animation, this was scanned in and would be my guide for recreating the piece in flash.  The backgrounds were laid out in After Effects 3d which allowed me to light the scene and cast shadows.  There were times for example when the character swings his racket that it would of gone through the 3d floor plane so these points needed to be fixed (I used a blank adjustment layer and then the character on top again, the adjustment layer effectively flattens everything even though it is 3d).  There were also some cast shadows that I changed so his feet looked planted to the ground but also looked spaced apart from each other (an example would be at 4seconds).

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

Nesquik – Catapult

June 1, 2009 by

This was a job completed at BEanimation.

Work required
During this production I was involved in all aspects from linetest to final post production. This advert I was also asked to create some 3d props. The pack that flies into the air (shots 4,5, and 7) and also the football that is catapulted into the trees and bounces around (shots 13, 14, and 16). There was rig removal notably on the shots where Quiky is pulling back the catapult. Shot 16 (ball bouncing around the tree) was also lit in post production to match earlier shots where you could see the sun shining through the trees. Quiky had his tones applied and graded accordingly and various cast shadows drawn in to integrate him into the scenes.

Filed Under: 3d, Advert, AE, Postproduction, Shortform, Work-Journal

Chocapic – Abyss

May 27, 2009 by


This was a job completed at BEanimation.

Work required
I was compositing on this job, it entailed treating alot of the 3d artwork.  The first group of shots of the sea had entire new skies placed in to look more moody and with a stronger storm feeling.  Alot of the 3d elements needed better integration into the shots with colour grading, we added quite a few camera effects in post different depth of field blurs on shots.  Shot 4 (wave crashing into the boat)  was some stock footage that we  purchased, it was masked out positioned and distorted to create the feel we wanted.  This had alot of treatment to it so that the whites of the wave looked fluffy white and so that it matched the 3d sea.  There were various shadows painted onto the boat to help integrate the wave better.  Shot 7 (the chocolate swirl) was created in lightwave (by a freelancer) but had a few issues the shape and twirl was working well but the middle had an awkward shape that needed to be fixed in post.  Also the render was not looking as “wet” as this final version, it was graded substantially with various passes extracted from the original render to produce the final look.
The underwater scenes had alot of bubbles added and little plant life placed in.  The red fish in various scene were modeled and setup for animation in Lightwave.  These jobs normally have about 12 different versions for different countries and a cut down of 20seconds created.  These are all played out to a digi-beta

Filed Under: 3d, Advert, AE, Postproduction, Shortform, Work-Journal

Nintendo DS – Purr Pals

May 27, 2009 by

This was a job completed at The Victorians.

Work required
I was involved in compositing the game footage into the HD live action, the advert was finished at Standard Definition so this allowed alot of freedom with reframing shots.  There were in total about 7 shots that required new game footage placed in.  This video is just one of the final adverts.  Some of the game shots were reanimated so they worked better with the pen movement.  The final masters were laid of to Digi-Beta

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

Me Me Me

May 26, 2009 by

This was something I put together one weekend.  I was curious to test out some virtual cameras in After Effects (AE) and a good old fashioned cloning test seemed appropriate.  The camera was mounted to a tripod and various shots taken of myself.  These video clips were then placed in 3d so that they join next to each other.  I could then place a camera inside of the circular perimeter of video clips and rotate and zoom however I felt.  There was also some masking required as occasionally I overlap my clones.  I did make the mistake of allowing the camera to white balance automatically and got some rather large colour shifts  as the shots move around, I was not really in the mood to tackle that problem :- P

Filed Under: AE, Personal Work, Work-Journal

BBC – Dangerous Love

May 26, 2009 by


This was a job completed at BEanimation.

Work required
3 of about 10 animations that where to be placed into a documentary about violence in the home.  The animation was drawn traditionally and later artworked by hand with pastels.  The larger spaces we created in After Effects (AE) from various textures.  On these examples I also drew many masks to add more shade and form to the coloured artwork.  These mask would animate in size, opacity and softness to have the feeling of boiling like the pastel work. The example of the girl was entirely coloured in AE, various colours were isolated and textured and the shadow of the man drawn also in the application.

 

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

Mark Ronson Project

May 26, 2009 by

This was a job completed at McKeown Devita Productions

Work required
I was brought in for 2 full (long) days to make final tweaks and changes, to bring in those last details the director wanted.  We made changes to over half of the spot during this time.  Changes we made were the line work on the spaceship to be a similar colour to the fill colour to various screens that were laid out slightly differently and treated with a new look and style.  New artwork was also being prepared on some shots that replaced older pieces.  Some of the edits were tightened up and camera effects added to give focus and depth of field.  There was also much colour grading to pull all the individual pieces together.

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

Nesquik – Gralle DUO

May 26, 2009 by

This was a job completed at BEanimation

Work required
I worked on this advert during all stages of production.  It concluded with a 2 day post production with the clients.  At this stage it was minor tweaks and adjustments mostly to Quiky’s (the rabbit) tones and integration into the live action shots.
In shot 6 (climbing the fridge) I created the props of the letters in Maya, these were lit, and animated to match the live action plate and Quiky’s animation.  The live action required much resizing and repositioning as the client was not very happy with the way the camera moved in this scene.  We had to reframe much tighter in the shot and force the camera to pull out whilst keeping the fridge top in the same position.
Shot 11 (Quiky jumping from the hammock) required the pack to be clearer so we tracked in some new artwork.

Filed Under: 3d, Advert, AE, Postproduction, Shortform, Work-Journal

HSS – Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

May 26, 2009 by

This was a job completed at BEanimation.

Work required
The entire set was created in After Effects (AE) 3d, this was so we could move into and around the shot with ease.  The hands were drawn using traditional animation coloured and had a tone applied.  The graphics in the computer were designed in Photoshop and later animated in AE.

 

Filed Under: 3d, Advert, AE, Postproduction, Shortform, Work-Journal
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