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Commercials 2010 - This is the parent directory of all commercials for 2010.
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Arm & Hammer
"Sensitive Gel"
Views: 539
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Release Date: 2010-04-26
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A simple but elegant spot recently created at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Arm & Hammer Sensitive Toothpaste combining clean 3D animation with graphic 2D motion graphics and design.... |
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Betty Crocker
"Shrek Fruit Snacks"
Views: 1098
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Release Date: 2010-02-23
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This is a :10 tag produced at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Betty Crocker Canada featuring Shrek Fruit Snack gummies. This project involved Dreamworks due to the Shrek counterpart so not only were approvals received from Betty Crocker, but also from Dreamworks requiring a somewhat lengthy approval process. The background plate was supplied by Dreamworks which was then converted into 3D elements and camera mapped in order to be able to achieve realistic camera work.... |
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Betty Crocker
"Fruit Snacks"
Views: 220
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Release Date: 2010-07-13
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These :10 tags were produced at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Betty Crocker Canada featuring Shrek, Scobby Doo, Dora and Spiderman Fruit Snack gummies.
This project involved multiple partners due to the various trademarked characters so not only were approvals received from Betty Crocker, but also from each respective partner, thus requiring a somewhat lengthy approval process. There were heavy restrictions imposed on what the characters could and could not do so we had to rely strictly on fun and lively character animation to capture the ... |
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Ford
"Employee Pricing - Trucks"
Views: 558
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Release Date: 2010-07-07
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This is the second of two spots recently finished at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Ford Canada featuring photorealistic vehicles driving across lush, 2D pop-up Canadian regions.... |
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Ford
"Employee Pricing - Cars"
Views: 384
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Release Date: 2010-07-01
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This is the first of two spots recently finished at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Ford Canada featuring photorealistic vehicles driving across lush, 2D pop-up Canadian regions.... |
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Kid Cuisine
"Krazy Combos"
Views: 1047
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Release Date: 2010-03-10
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This is the first of two spots recently created at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Kid Cuisine, USA featuring the "KC" penguin character transforming through the various Kid Cuisine meal themes.
KC had existed in previous spots but it was up to Hatch to push the quality even further and bring more personality to our hero character. Our agency friends from NYC were an absolute pleasure to work with.
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Kid Cuisine
"Shrek"
Views: 315
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Release Date: 2010-04-21
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This is the second of two spots recently created at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Kid Cuisine, USA featuring the "KC" penguin character transforming through the various Kid Cuisine meal themes.
KC had existed in previous spots but it was up to Hatch to push the quality even further and bring more personality to our hero character. Our agency friends from NYC were an absolute pleasure to work with.
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Nestle
"Nesquik"
Views: 762
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Release Date: 2010-01-19
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This was a short tag created at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Nestle Canada featuring the Nesquik bunny for the first time in 3D. Because we wanted to ensure consistency with the historical 2D version, we rendered the character using a hybrid 2D / 3D shader, complete with accentuated outlines. Fur was avoided in order to maintain a clean and concise appearance. His familiar and ecstatic ear twist was added in order to carry through his historically-established personality.... |
Commercials 2009 - This is the parent directory of all commercials for 2009.
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Astral
"Station ID02"
Views: 12738
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Release Date: 2009-02-11
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This is the second of two station ID tags created at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Astral's "Z-Tele" channel.
Please right-click & save here for a 480p movie version.
In this second installment, we follow an assembly line from start to finish, showing the Z-Tele sphere being formed. Like the first cinematic, the robotic arms, claws & pulleys act as our catalyst to move us through various industrial environments, all of which change through... |
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Ford
"Holodeck"
Views: 6398
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Release Date: 2009-03-16
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This is the recently completed Ford "Holodeck" spot created at Hatch Studios Ltd.
"Holodeck" is Hatch's follow-up spot to the "White Room" series. This one features a slick menu system that showcases each of the new Ford Edge's features, transitioning the viewer into holographic surreal worlds in which objects continuously construct and collapse into themselves.
Despite the hard work involved in this spot, we had a great time working on it with our Y&R friends Randy, Blain, Shravan, Michael and Christine.... |
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Ford
"Summer Event - Cars"
Views: 2046
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Release Date: 2009-07-08
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Clean typographic design and snappy animation come together to promote Ford's summer sales event in another two recently completed spots coming out of Hatch Studios Ltd.... |
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Ford
"Summer Event - Trucks"
Views: 2299
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Release Date: 2009-07-08
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Clean typographic design and snappy animation come together to promote Ford's summer sales event in another two recently completed spots coming out of Hatch Studios Ltd.... |
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Toblerone
"Matterhorn Print"
Views: 3524
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Release Date: 2009-03-17
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Toblerone "Matterhorn Print" is a magazine print created by Hatch Studios Ltd. to accompany our other Toblerone prints (see similar projects). Like our heavily stylized spot, this print features a stylized Matterhorn mountain with an equally stylized character. Like the other prints, the Matterhorn appears to have the Toblerone bite taken out of it.... |
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Toblerone
"Tuxedo Print"
Views: 549
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Release Date: 2009-06-18
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Toblerone "Tuxedo Print" is a magazine print created by Hatch Studios Ltd. to accompany our other Toblerone prints (see similar projects). Like our heavily stylized spot, this print features a stylized character wearing a Toblerone-like tie in an equally stylized environment. Like the other prints, the tie appears to have the Toblerone bite taken out of it.... |
Commercials 2008 - This is the parent directory of all commercials for 2008.
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Astral
"Station ID01"
Views: 9785
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Release Date: 2008-10-27
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This is the first of two station ID tags created at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Astral's "Z-Tele" channel.
Please right-click & save here for a 480p movie version.
The premise here was to create an impactful sequence that would fit into Z-Tele's programming themes and styles. I developed a sub-story in which we follow a macroscopic machine powering up. The electrical current acts as the catalyst to move us through this vivid environment ... |
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Astral
"Prints"
Views: 4463
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Release Date: 2008-07-02
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These are production prints related to the Astral Station ID Tags and cinematic.... |
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Astral
"Station ID Tags"
Views: 7545
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Release Date: 2008-08-15
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These are a series of animated ID tags created by Hatch Studios Ltd. for Astral's broadcasting campaign. They feature the Z-Tele logo transforming into a living TV machine, as well as collapsing into the logo once more.
This project is part of a series of projects for Astral, all of which can be seen in the "Similar Projects" section to the right.
Please right-click here to download the 480p version (~30MB).
The screens were... |
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Ester-C
"Apartment"
Views: 10654
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Release Date: 2008-10-27
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Ester-C "Apartment" is a follow-up fifth spot to the previous set of four :15 spots recently created at Hatch Studios Ltd. It features two comedic Orange characters that were developed and created at Hatch for the branding of the new vitamin product.... |
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Ford
"Rollercoaster"
Views: 15590
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Release Date: 2008-02-29
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Ford "Rollercoaster" is the latest spot created at Hatch Studios Ltd., directed by Richard Rosenman and Larissa Ulisko.
Please click here to see a 720p movie. (19 MB)
Inspired by Japanese illustration, this spot relies heavily on seamless integration of cutting edge 3D computer graphics combined with bold 2D character designs, both existing in a lavish and rich multi-media environment.
Not only did we wish to create a visually compelli... |
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Ford
"Ice"
Views: 23918
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Release Date: 2008-02-29
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Ford "Ice" is the latest spot to come out of Hatch Studios Ltd. featuring computer generated vehicles, environments and VFX shots produced in full 1080P HD.
Please click here to see a 720p movie. (37 MB)
The spot features a Fusion making an epic journey across two continents and freezing its surrounding environment in doing so. This is synonymous with Ford's tagline: "Create a reaction." When it crosses the ocean we showcase beautiful frozen enviro... |
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Heart & Stroke Foundation
"Production Test"
Views: 7123
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Release Date: 2008-01-01
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This was a production test developed for the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario featuring a pinball machine theme. This pinball machine would, in the future spot, reveal the various prizes available in playing the lottery.
The original "Launch" version can be seen by clicking here and the "Early Bird" version by clicking here.... |
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Kellogg's
"Guitar Hero"
Views: 4385
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Release Date: 2008-10-08
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Another recently completed project produced at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Kellogg's featuring the new Guitar Hero cereal toys. This was a fun project to work on due to the rock theme it was supposed to convey.... |
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Kellogg's
"Kung Fu Panda"
Views: 4345
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Release Date: 2008-04-20
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A simple tag created at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Kellogg's featuring their new "Kung Fu Panda" frisbees.
Created with 3dsmax 9.0, Photoshop CS2, VRay 1.5 RC3 & After Effects 7.0.... |
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Kraft
"Pimp My Ride"
Views: 8477
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Release Date: 2008-04-29
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This is a :10 add-on tag for whole wheat KD as a follow-up to the previous Kraft KD commercial created at Hatch Studios Ltd. We feature the same style of characters and environments in a story that involves a farmer playing a joke on his friend. As he cuts the wheat field with his Pimped-Up Combine, he pulls a daring maneuver and sprays his friend with a wave of KD. All is good as his friend wipes off the KD from h... |
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Pelikan
"Griffix"
Views: 9032
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Release Date: 2008-05-16
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Pelikan "Griffix" is Hatch Studios' latest international spot produced for Pelikan, Germany. It features four stylized kids from various age groups each showcasing Pelikan's latest "Griffix" line of children's pens.
The gang performs an energetic dance routine in which they sing about their specific pens, ending in a climatic finale that wraps up the commercial nicely. The version presented here is the 4:3 PAL superless version. We also produced a widescreen SD alt. This soundtrack is the translated English version so lip-sync will b... |
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Reach
"Mouth Moves"
Views: 7932
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Release Date: 2008-05-05
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This is one of two spots produced by Hatch Studios Ltd. for Reach. Appropriately named "Mouth Moves", it features a character being able to brush his teeth by sliding his mouth around his face.
Some interesting notes about this project were that we created the characters in a very stylized caricature form yet rendered them in a method which makes them appear very 'tangible'. The oversized heads in proportion to the bodies further emphasize this as does the realistic lighting setup. In addition, ensuring that the mouth moving around th... |
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Reach
"Conveyor"
Views: 12268
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Release Date: 2008-05-05
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This is one of two spots produced by Hatch Studios Ltd. for Reach. Appropriately named "Conveyor", it features a character being able to brush her teeth by sliding her teeth within her mouth.
Some interesting notes about this project were that we created the characters in a very stylized caricature form yet rendered them in a method which makes them appear very 'tangible'. The oversized heads in proportion to the bodies further emphasize this as does the realistic lighting setup. In addition, ensuring that the teeth moving within the ... |
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Robin Hood
"County Fair"
Views: 5907
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Release Date: 2008-10-27
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Robin Hood "County Fair" is a :30 second, fully computer animated spot created by Hatch Studios Ltd. for Smuckers Canada, represented by Ogilvy & Mather Canada.
The spot reveals two children named Andrew and Elizabeth explaining how they've just won the county fair muffin contest with Robin Hood "Just Like Homemade Muffins". The prize they brought home pops in at the end for a surprise finale. The sunny afternoon setting fills the kitchen with a warm inviting sunlight and creates a visually engaging commercial that arouses immediate ... |
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Toblerone
"Car Prints"
Views: 4568
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Release Date: 2008-10-28
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These are production prints of the car from the Toblerone "Christmas" spot, produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.
You can see the original Toblerone spot by clicking here.
There is also a Toblerone Christmas Print that you can see here.... |
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Toblerone
"Christmas"
Views: 5890
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Release Date: 2008-10-21
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Toblerone "Christmas" is one of Hatch Studios Ltd. latest character spots. This elegant :15 tag features four stylized characters in an equally stylized Toblerone world where various objects throughout the environment appear to have the Toblerone bite taken out of it.
There is also a magazine print which you can see here.
There are also Toblerone car production prints which you can see here.
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Toblerone
"Christmas Print"
Views: 3617
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Release Date: 2008-10-10
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Toblerone "Christmas Print" is a magazine print created by Hatch Studios Ltd. to accompany our latest Toblerone Christmas Spot. Like the spot, this print features four stylized characters in an equally stylized Toblerone world where our Christmas tree appears to have the Toblerone bite taken out of it.
There are also Toblerone car production prints which you can see here. ... |
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Toblerone
"Shoe Print"
Views: 3266
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Release Date: 2008-12-15
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Toblerone "Shoe Print" is a magazine print created by Hatch Studios Ltd. to accompany our other Toblerone prints (see similar projects). Like our heavily stylized spot, this print features a stylized shoe in an equally stylized Toblerone shoe store where the heel appears to have the Toblerone bite taken out of it.... |
Commercials 2007 - This is the parent directory of all commercials for 2007.
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Autodesk
"Media & Entertainment"
Views: 12994
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Release Date: 2007-07-15
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This project was a Siggraph 2007 showcase demo produced for Autodesk Media & Entertainment (M&E) at Hatch Studios Ltd.
The premise was to create a sophisticated menu system symbolizing Autodesk's various M&E market and product lines. The demo features three main sections: Film, Design, and Games, each of which was intercut with client footage.
Each market section (and associated sphere) is represented through deviated color grading (Red, Blue, then Green). The main menu therefore contains a neutral grading with splashes of all thr... |
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Autodesk
"Prints"
Views: 5913
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Release Date: 2007-07-15
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These are various conceptual prints created during the development of the Siggraph 2007 showcase demo produced for Autodesk Media & Entertainment (M&E) at Hatch Studios Ltd.
The premise was to create a sophisticated menu system symbolizing Autodesk's various M&E market and product lines. The demo features three main sections: Film, Design, and Games, each of which was intercut with client footage.
In addition to the menu sections, there were software showcases to take i... |
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Bick's
"Picnic"
Views: 9576
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Release Date: 2007-04-01
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This is the third of three spots produced by Hatch Studios Ltd. for Ogilvy & Mather. It features an alien documentarian exposing the cruel ways in which humans treat pickles. The spots are quite humourous in the sense that they are so absurd in nature.
The alien was modeled and textured using ZBrush, rigged and animated in 3dsmax 8.0, and rendered with VRay 1.47.03. It was composited with After Effects.... |
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Charlie
"Interplanetary Weapons Peddler"
Views: 19658
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Release Date: 2007-01-22
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Charlie is Sammy's intergalactic partner in crime. Together, they recklessly cruise the universe causing an insurmountable amount of trouble and leaving a trail of broken hearts behind them. While Sammy evolved from a long line of once noble and oddly refined reptilian ancestors, Charlie was a runaway offshoot from a biological swine and pit bull DNA mixing experiment gone horribly wrong. As a result, Charlie lacks the minimal capacity of intellect required for self preservation, and had it not been for his favorite personal ACME las... |
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Ester-C
"Psychiatrist"
Views: 15010
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Release Date: 2007-08-14
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Ester-C "Psychiatrist" is one of four :15 spots recently created at Hatch Studios Ltd. It features two comedic Orange characters that were developed and created at Hatch for the branding of the new vitamin product.... |
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Ester-C
"Prints"
Views: 5044
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Release Date: 2007-07-08
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These are a set of two Ester-C production prints created for various magazine, newspaper and internet ads created at Hatch Studios Ltd.
The original ad(s) can be see here: Ester-C "Psychiatrist"
Click on "Images and More" and then "View full-sized image" for HD resolution.
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Ester-C
"Pusher"
Views: 9254
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Release Date: 2007-08-14
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Ester-C "Pusher" is one of four :15 spots recently created at Hatch Studios Ltd. It features two comedic Orange characters that were developed and created at Hatch for the branding of the new vitamin product.... |
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Ester-C
"Kicker"
Views: 5000
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Release Date: 2007-08-14
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Ester-C "Kicker" is one of four :15 spots recently created at Hatch Studios Ltd. It features two comedic Orange characters that were developed and created at Hatch for the branding of the new vitamin product.... |
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Ester-C
"Graffiti"
Views: 4646
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Release Date: 2007-08-14
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Ester-C "Graffiti" is one of four :15 spots recently created at Hatch Studios Ltd. It features two comedic Orange characters that were developed and created at Hatch for the branding of the new vitamin product.... |
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Ford
"Accessories"
Views: 21784
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Release Date: 2007-03-15
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Ford "Accessories" is the latest spot to come out of our studio, Hatch Studios Ltd, for Y&R Canada. The spot is 100% CGI, combined with photo elements.
The spot features the 2007 Ford F150 accessories transforming onto the truck from various dynamic angles. As the parts continue to transform, the pacing increasingly builds up until the commercial comes to a dramatic finale. Combined with a frenetic soundtrack, the spot delivers an explosive display of visual energy sure enough to get everyone's adrenaline flowing.... |
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Ford
"Built To Handle"
Views: 15698
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Release Date: 2007-05-08
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Ford "Built to Handle" is our latest spot created at Hatch Studios Ltd., directed by Larissa Ulisko.
It features the Ford Fusion open like a book into a graphic and abstract garage environment in which we see the vehicle performing dynamic precision maneuvers while showcasing its various distinct abilities. At the end, the camera rotates 180 degrees revealing the Fusion parked on the garage ceiling - due to its powerful traction.
In case you hadn't guessed by now, the voice read was done by Kiefer Sutherland.... |
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Ford
"Built Smarter"
Views: 14145
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Release Date: 2007-06-04
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Ford "Built Smarter" is our latest spot created at Hatch Studios Ltd., directed by Larissa Ulisko. It is the second spot for Ford belonging to a campaign set of several.
It features the Ford Escape open like a book into a graphic and abstract landscape environment in which we see the vehicle performing dynamic precision maneuvers while showcasing its various distinct features.
In case you hadn't guessed by now, the voice read was done by Kiefer Sutherland.
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Ford
"Accessories Prints"
Views: 5682
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Release Date: 2007-03-30
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The following images are vehicle prints created during the production of the Ford Accessories commercial at Hatch Studios Ltd.
They were developed as presentation prints during the final stages of the 3D vehicle modeling & texturing in order to determine if there were any inconsistencies between the CG model and the real car.
To see the images, click on "Images and More". You can also view HD resolution versions by clicking on the link under each image.... |
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Ford
"Built To Handle Prints"
Views: 6678
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Release Date: 2007-05-08
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The following images are vehicle prints created during the production of the Ford Built To Handle commercial at Hatch Studios Ltd.
They were developed as presentation prints during the final stages of the 3D vehicle modeling & texturing in order to determine if there were any inconsistencies between the CG model and the real car.
To see the images, click on "Images and More". You can also view HD resolution versions by clicking on the link under each image.
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Ford
"Built Smarter Prints"
Views: 7245
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Release Date: 2007-06-04
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The following images are vehicle prints created during the production of the Ford Accessories commercial at Hatch Studios Ltd.
They were developed as presentation prints during the final stages of the 3D vehicle modeling & texturing in order to determine if there were any inconsistencies between the CG model and the real car.
To see the images, click on "Images and More". You can also view HD resolution versions by clicking on the link under each image.
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Kraft
"Geyser"
Views: 27793
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Release Date: 2007-03-20
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This is a recently completed project produced at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Kraft Canada, represented by JWT. The project took approximately 6 weeks to develop with a core staff of approximately 8 people.... |
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Teletoon
"Summer 1"
Views: 15867
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Release Date: 2007-08-27
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This is one of four tags recently created for Teletoon Canada at Hatch Studios Ltd.
Each tag features a character transforming from summer and winter sports equipment and performing various related actions. The premise was to encourage kids to be physically active and suggest some activities for doing so.
The tags were quite fun to develop as well as challenging in order to pack as much as possible in only seven seconds. Currently, the tags are on TV and web.... |
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Teletoon
"Summer 2"
Views: 4367
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Release Date: 2007-08-27
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This is one of four tags recently created for Teletoon Canada at Hatch Studios Ltd.
Each tag features a character transforming from summer and winter sports equipment and performing various related actions. The premise was to encourage kids to be physically active and suggest some activities for doing so.
The tags were quite fun to develop as well as challenging in order to pack as much as possible in only seven seconds. Currently, the tags are on TV and web.... |
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Teletoon
"Cheerios"
Views: 7129
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Release Date: 2007-08-27
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This is one of four tags recently created for Teletoon Canada at Hatch Studios Ltd.
Each tag features a character transforming from summer and winter sports equipment and performing various related actions. The premise was to encourage kids to be physically active and suggest some activities for doing so.
The tags were quite fun to develop as well as challenging in order to pack as much as possible in only seven seconds. Currently, the tags are on TV and web.... |
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Teletoon
"Winter"
Views: 2333
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Release Date: 2007-08-27
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This is one of four tags recently created for Teletoon Canada at Hatch Studios Ltd.
Each tag features a character transforming from summer and winter sports equipment and performing various related actions. The premise was to encourage kids to be physically active and suggest some activities for doing so.
The tags were quite fun to develop as well as challenging in order to pack as much as possible in only seven seconds. Currently, the tags are on TV and web.... |
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Tide
"Pure Essentials"
Views: 5074
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Release Date: 2007-09-25
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A simple tag created for Tide Pure Essentials at Hatch Studios Ltd, involving a towel transforming a bottle of regular Tide into one of Pure Essentials.... |
Commercials 2006 - This is the parent directory of all commercials for 2006.
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Bick's
"BBQ"
Views: 10860
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Release Date: 2006-03-01
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This is the second of three spots produced by Hatch Studios Ltd. for Ogilvy & Mather. It features an alien documentarian exposing the cruel ways in which humans treat pickles. The spots are quite humourous in the sense that they are so absurd in nature.
The alien was modeled and textured using ZBrush, rigged and animated in 3dsmax 8.0, and rendered with VRay 1.47.03. It was composited with After Effects.... |
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Bick's
"Offspring"
Views: 13572
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Release Date: 2006-02-01
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This is the first of three spots produced by Hatch Studios Ltd. for Ogilvy & Mather. It features an alien documentarian exposing the cruel ways in which humans treat pickles. The spots are quite humourous in the sense that they are so absurd in nature.
The alien was modeled and textured using ZBrush, rigged and animated in 3dsmax 8.0, and rendered with VRay 1.47.03. It was composited with After Effects.... |
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Bick's
"Print"
Views: 12981
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Release Date: 2006-09-01
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This is a promotion print of the Bick's alien produced by Hatch Studios Ltd. for Ogilvy & Mather. The original project can be found here.
The alien was modeled and textured using ZBrush, rigged and animated in 3dsmax 8.0, and rendered with VRay 1.47.03. Depth Of Field was produced in part with DOF PRO. It was polished in Photoshop using photo composites.
Please click on "IMAGES AND MORE" to see the image. In the same pa... |
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Government of Ontario
"Stupid.ca"
Views: 13449
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Release Date: 2006-05-29
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These are a set of fourteen recently completed backgrounds created at Hatch Studios Ltd. for the agency Mighty @ Bensimon/Byrne. They were developed for the new 2006 version of the highly-successful anti-smoking campaign website commissioned by the Government of Ontario. (To see all of the backgrounds, click on 'Images and More' in the project page.)
It can be visited at http://www.stupid.ca... |
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Jamba!
"Mobile"
Views: 36884
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Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Jamba! "Mobile" was produced in early 2006 for Jamba! represented by Michael Kocurek at Infosection e.K.
Jamba! "Mobile" features "Swead", the curious little red monster who many of you may remember from several years ago.
Please click here to see the original "Swead" project.
Since then, "Swead" has gone on to win numerous awards while gaining international recognition. It was partially due to his popularity that ... |
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Kellogg's
"Ice Age 2 Promo"
Views: 11860
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Release Date: 2006-02-01
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This was a short tag produced for Kellogg's cereal showcasing the Ice Age 2 cereal gift packs.
Modeled, rigged, animated and textured in 3dsmax 8.0. Rendered with VRay 1.45.70. Composited with After Effects and Combustion.... |
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PUSH Interactive
"Egg"
Views: 5183
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Release Date: 2006-12-05
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This project required creating an animated sequence for PUSH Interactive's website intro, developed at Hatch Studios Ltd.
The goal was to create one sequence that would then be split into various parts and authored appropriately with Macromedia Flash. The user would be able to pick up the egg and release it, only to watch it fall and break into smaller pieces.... |
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Samsung
"Z5"
Views: 12421
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Release Date: 2006-03-17
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These 5 prints were created for the launch of Samsung's new Z5 MP3 player. The prints were created as poster-sized images and published throughout Canada in bus stops, subway stations, and billboards.
There were also animated sequences produced for the campaign but I was not involved in these.
Currently, the prints are also featured on Samsung's Z5 website which can be found by clicking here.... |
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Samsung
"Z5 Print"
Views: 3882
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Release Date: 2006-03-17
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This is a production print created during the development of the Samsung "Z5" print campaign.
Produced with 3dsmax 6.0, rendered with VRay 1.47.03 and composited with Photoshop.... |
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Walmart
"Alien Games"
Views: 8716
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Release Date: 2006-04-19
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This is one of five short tags created for Walmart Canada featuring Wilf, Wink and Wilma. Each tag focuses on the release of Walmart's latest DVDs and video games within their electronics department.
One large set was created for all five spots, each featuring texture decals which could be easily swapped between movie and video game signs. The shelves and racks could be quickly relocated depending on what type of spot it was for. The characters were skinned with custom rigs and all the animation was keyframed, including the special effects (with the exception of the cloth in "Castle".)
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Walmart
"Castle"
Views: 6359
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Release Date: 2006-03-21
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This is one of five short tags created for Walmart Canada featuring Wilf, Wink and Wilma. Each tag focuses on the release of Walmart's latest DVDs and video games within their electronics department.
One large set was created for all five spots, each featuring texture decals which could be easily swapped between movie and video game signs. The shelves and racks could be quickly relocated depending on what type of spot it was for. The characters were skinned with custom rigs and all the animation was keyframed, including the special effects (with the exception of the cloth in "Castle".)
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Walmart
"Letterbox"
Views: 6621
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Release Date: 2006-02-20
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This is one of five short tags created for Walmart Canada featuring Wilf, Wink and Wilma. Each tag focuses on the release of Walmart's latest DVDs and video games within their electronics department.
One large set was created for all five spots, each featuring texture decals which could be easily swapped between movie and video game signs. The shelves and racks could be quickly relocated depending on what type of spot it was for. The characters were skinned with custom rigs and all the animation was keyframed, including the special effects (with the exception of the cloth in "Castle".)
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Walmart
"Projector"
Views: 8407
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Release Date: 2006-05-02
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This is one of five short tags created for Walmart Canada featuring Wilf, Wink and Wilma. Each tag focuses on the release of Walmart's latest DVDs and video games within their electronics department.
One large set was created for all five spots, each featuring texture decals which could be easily swapped between movie and video game signs. The shelves and racks could be quickly relocated depending on what type of spot it was for. The characters were skinned with custom rigs and all the animation was keyframed, including the special effects (with the exception of the cloth in "Castle".)
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Walmart
"Robot"
Views: 6962
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Release Date: 2006-03-10
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This is one of five short tags created for Walmart Canada featuring Wilf, Wink and Wilma. Each tag focuses on the release of Walmart's latest DVDs and video games within their electronics department.
One large set was created for all five spots, each featuring texture decals which could be easily swapped between movie and video game signs. The shelves and racks could be quickly relocated depending on what type of spot it was for. The characters were skinned with custom rigs and all the animation was keyframed, including the special effects (with the exception of the cloth in "Castle".)
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Commercials 2005 - This is the parent directory of all commercials for 2005.
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Barritas
"Olympics"
Views: 13117
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Release Date: 2005-12-13
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Barritas "Olympics" consisted of a twenty-second spot for the Marinela company in Mexico. The spot was heavily focused on character work and required three fully modeled, rigged and textured characters - a pineapple, a strawberry, and a pastry bun. About one week was assigned to modeling since the characters had been pre-built for previous commercials, three weeks for animation, two weeks for lighting and rendering, and the remaining week for compositing. This job turned out to be quite fun to work on since we were able to push the character performances as far as we wanted to which resulted i... |
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Diet Pepsi
"After Hours"
Views: 15428
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Release Date: 2005-03-11
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Diet Pepsi "After Hours" is a 30-second, fully computer generated commercial recently produced for showcase during the 2005 Academy Awards on American broadcast stations. It was completed in about one and half months, with a crew of about 8 core artists at Redrover Animation Studios Ltd.
"After Hours" focuses on creative story development, stylized character animation, dramatic cinematic lighting and clean, sophisticated rendering. The concept was to show a closed convenience store in which a radio was left playing in the background. As we cut to the inside of the refrigerator, we think the... |
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Ipubs
"Intro"
Views: 8027
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Release Date: 2005-03-22
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Short corporate intro for Ipubs in the UK.
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New York Times
"John Madden"
Views: 6990
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Release Date: 2005-08-30
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This image was created for Wayne Kamidoi, the art director for sports at The New York Times. They ran a feature story on John Madden for their NFL preview on the front page of the sports section on September 4, 2005.
John Madden was modeled and textured with 3dsmax 4.2, rendered with VRay 1.45.70 using traditional lighting techniques with global illumination, and composited (as well as color corrected, processed and treated) with Photoshop.... |
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Pest Control
"Print"
Views: 7068
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Release Date: 2005-09-30
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This was a promotional print produced as a pitch for a television series called "Pest Control".... |
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Robin Hood
"Giving"
Views: 15256
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Release Date: 2005-11-07
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Robin Hood "Giving" is the third and final spot for 2005 created by Redrover Animation Studios Ltd. for Smuckers Canada, represented by Ogilvy & Mather Canada. The spot once again reveals Andrew and Elizabeth being interviewed, this time at the dining room table in the evening. As this is a spot intended for the holiday season, they are shown wrapping their gingerbread cookies in gift boxes for "all of their favourite people in the whole world." The table shows various gift-wrapping accessories, the freshly baked cookies (complete with handwritten names), a glamorous holiday candle ornament, a... |
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Robin Hood
"Memories"
Views: 14346
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Release Date: 2005-09-01
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Robin Hood "Memories" is a :30 second, fully computer animated spot created by Redrover Animation Studios Ltd. for Smuckers Canada, represented by Ogilvy & Mather Canada. The spot reveal two children named Andrew and Elizabeth who are being interviewed in a documentary style show about why they enjoy baking with their mom. The table shows various used baking utensils to suggest they have just finished baking muffins and the product, a rolled up bag of Robin Hood flour, rests nearby. The sunny afternoon setting fills the kitchen with a warm inviting sunlight and creates a visually engaging comm... |
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Robin Hood
"Teaches Us"
Views: 11278
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Release Date: 2005-09-01
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Robin Hood "Teaches Us" is a :30 second, fully computer animated spot created by Redrover Animation Studios Ltd. for Smuckers Canada, represented by Ogilvy & Mather Canada. The spot reveal two children named Andrew and Elizabeth who are being interviewed in a documentary style show about why they enjoy baking with their mom. The table shows various used baking utensils to suggest they have just finished baking muffins and the product, a rolled up bag of Robin Hood flour, rests nearby. The sunny afternoon setting fills the kitchen with a warm inviting sunlight and creates a visually engaging co... |
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Robin Hood
"Print"
Views: 6865
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Release Date: 2005-07-05
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Promotional print created for the Robin Hood website featuring Andrew and Elizabeth.... |
Commercials 2004 - This is the parent directory of all commercials for 2004.
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Bronate
"Dog"
Views: 8488
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Release Date: 2004-01-19
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This was a shot we had to produce which involved a jug of Bayer Bronate Herbicide shaking off mud like a dog shakes off water. It was actually quite complex for many reasons.... |
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Infosection e. K.
"Intro"
Views: 6590
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Release Date: 2004-10-22
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This was an introduction sequence created for the "Das Turnier" game, for Infosection e.K. Germany. We licensed Crystal Method's "Keep Hope Alive" as we were both fans of this track and it was well suited for the pacing of the intro.
This intro was created with After Effects 6.5.... |
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Infosection e. K.
"Swead"
Views: 11775
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Release Date: 2004-01-10
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"Swead" is a curious little monster who inevitably always gets into trouble. His emotions often get the best of him as he has great difficulty in controlling them. He lives his life in a constant turmoil of confusion, curiosity, greed and anger - although he is incapable of hurting a fly. Swead takes great pride in keeping his fur clean and shiny, although he likes to wear it messy due to his rebellious nature.
"Swead" has won various awards and publications. For more info, please visit the Awards and Publications section.... |
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Kellogg's
"Tony The Tiger
Views: 10771
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Release Date: 2004-09-17
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This was a small motion test of Tony the Tiger in 3D we produced over a short period of time for a pitch. Kyle Dunlevy did a great job on the animation and I used every trick in the book to make the shot appear energetic and full of action - which was difficult since we didn't have any live action footage, just a few still plates of a background park.... |
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Lexus
"Topographical"
Views: 8957
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Release Date: 2004-05-01
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Lexus "Topographical" was produced to introduce Lexus' new GX SUV model. The creative idea was to replace the environment with a computer generated topographical elevation map. The live action was shot in the desert mountains near Los Angeles using a helicopter.... |
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Mr. Clean
"Magic Spray"
Views: 5723
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Release Date: 2004-09-21
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"Magic Spray" is one of two 30 second Canadian spots recently produced for Procter & Gamble.
Mr. Clean was rendered using 3dsmax's Falloff material for the cel-shading treatment. In addition, an ambient occlusion pass was used to bring out his features, particularly in the face. In some instances where Mr. Clean has more interaction with his environment, 3D models were created for casting shadows and producing more realistic lighting interaction. In addition, various CGI products were also created.
Mr. Clean has some clearly established lighting protocals which had to be met, particular... |
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Mr. Clean
"Two As One"
Views: 4421
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Release Date: 2004-09-21
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"Two As One" is one of two 30 second Canadian spots recently produced for Procter & Gamble.
Mr. Clean was rendered using 3dsmax's Falloff material for the cel-shading treatment. In addition, an ambient occlusion pass was used to bring out his features, particularly in the face. In some instances where Mr. Clean has more interaction with his environment, 3D models were created for casting shadows and producing more realistic lighting interaction. In addition, various CGI products were also created.
Mr. Clean has some clearly established lighting protocals which had to be met, particularly... |
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OLGC
"Holiday Gift Packs"
Views: 4433
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Release Date: 2004-10-21
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This was a short tag created for the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation promoting the holiday gift packs.
Modeled and animated with 3dsmax 6.0, rendered with VRay 1.45.70, and composited with After Effects.
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RadioShack
"Holiday Fun"
Views: 5764
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Release Date: 2004-11-22
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This commercial was produced in just over 3 weeks for RadioShack in time for the holiday season. Due to time rendering constraints, global illumination could not be used for the interior lighting. However, much of it was simulated with lighting effects. (For more info, please see Simulating Radiance). In addition, each room was dynamically set up so that a specific color could be selected and this would change all light colors, texture colors, and material colors at once.
Modeled and animated with 3dsmax 6.0, rendered with VRay 1.45.70. Composited with Combustion and After Effects.... |
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Tide
"Brush"
Views: 6437
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Release Date: 2004-01-27
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This was a straight forward 3D demo that was produced to showcase Tide's new cleaning product.
This spot was modeled and animated with 3D Studio MAX, rendered with VRay 1.09 and composited with After Effects.... |
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Toyota Matrix
"Break Away"
Views: 13697
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Release Date: 2004-07-07
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Toyota Matrix "Break Away" was completed in July, 2004 for Saatchi & Saatchi, Toronto. The concept was to create photorealistic CGI Matrix vehicles which would split into multiple others in much the same way cells do. Although we had approximately four months of production time scheduled for this project, only one month was available for the actual production since the shoot could only take place four weeks prior to the deadline. Therefore, the first three months were invested in pre-production, specifically for modeling, research and development and pre-visualization.... |
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Toyota Matrix
"Prints"
Views: 5855
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Release Date: 2004-05-07
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These were test renders produced during the pre-production stage of the second Toyota Matrix commercial which can be found here.... |
Commercials 2003 - This is the parent directory of all commercials for 2003.
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Barritas
"Casting"
Views: 8256
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Release Date: 2003-08-05
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Barritas "Casting" consisted of a twenty-second spot for the Marinela company in Mexico. The spot was heavily focused on character work and required three fully modeled, rigged and textured characters - a pineapple, a strawberry, and a pastry bun. We had approximately two and a half months scheduled time to produce two spots from start to finish. About three weeks were assigned to modeling, four weeks for animation, two weeks for lighting and rendering, and the remaining week for compositing. These jobs turned out to be quite fun to work on since we were able to push the character performances... |
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Barritas
"Castle"
Views: 8996
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Release Date: 2003-07-22
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Barritas "Castle" consisted of a twenty-second spot for the Marinela company in Mexico. The spot was heavily focused on character work and required three fully modeled, rigged and textured characters - a pineapple, a strawberry, and a pastry bun. We had approximately two and a half months scheduled time to produce two spots from start to finish. About three weeks were assigned to modeling, four weeks for animation, two weeks for lighting and rendering, and the remaining week for compositing. These jobs turned out to be quite fun to work on since we were able to push the character performances ... |
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Glade
"Wisp"
Views: 7336
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Release Date: 2003-03-07
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Glade was a 6 second product demo recently completed in just over a week. The requirements were to show the product in action, as well as the exterior shell and interior electronics. There were two versions completed, yet only the first one was used.... |
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Mountain Dew
"Citrus Smooth"
Views: 7083
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Release Date: 2003-04-30
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This was a 7 second tag recently completed for Mountain Dew's new Citrus flavor. The spot was fairly straight forward, although it was a tight schedule lasting only about 2 weeks. The crushing can was produced by creating multiple morph targets and animating from one to the next. The liquid was created using RealFlow.
The spot was modeled and animated with 3D Studio MAX, rendered with VRay 1.09 using global illumination, and composited with After Effects.... |
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Robaxacet
"Home"
Views: 10331
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Release Date: 2003-09-16
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Robaxacet was completed approximately one month ago and is currently playing in Canada. This is the first of a series of spots featuring the familiar Robaxacet puppets in a new advertising campaign - the full integration of the CG puppets into live action sets. To see the original Robaxacet spot "Mambo" from many years ago, please click here.
Because the animation had to be very realistic, we had live actors perform the required actions on film which we then referenced for our keyframing. This was very important because it was through reviewing the actors' actions that we picked up on subtl... |
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Rogers
"Totalphone Print"
Views: 4595
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Release Date: 2003-09-08
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This is the "Totalphone" poster created for the print campaign. It (or variations of it) are currently in the Toronto area Subway system, Rogers AT&T stores, the Rogers AT&T website and even....beer coasters.:)
For more info, please see the Rogers Totalphone project.
Modeled with 3dsmax 4.2. It was rendered using Vray 1.09 and composited with Adobe Photoshop.... |
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Rogers
"Totalphone"
Views: 4703
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Release Date: 2003-11-01
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"Totalphone" was a unique commercial which introduced three cells coming together to form a 'new species of wireless' - a new mobile phone rate/plan from Rogers AT&T. The challenge was to create fun and interesting cells while making sure they did not look unpleasant or disturbing. We accomplished this through the use of bright colors and abstract graphic patterns, as opposed to realistic cellular textures.
Totalphone also had to feel dynamic and our initial camera motion tests which relied on only the horizontal and vertical axes did not work as effectively as we had hoped. It was only whe... |
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SC Johnson
"Off! Botanicals"
Views: 6582
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Release Date: 2003-04-11
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This spot was recently completed for SC Johnson introducing a new mosquito repellent product. The job was produced in approximately 3 weeks. The mosquito's legs were rigged using automatic bounce springs to facilitate the secondary action animation. The plants were modeled and animated with a standard forward kinematic bone and skin system.
The spot was modeled and animated with 3D Studio MAX, rendered with VRay 1.09 using global illumination, and composited with After Effects.... |
Commercials 2002 - This is the parent directory of all commercials for 2002.
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Advil
"Print"
Views: 9166
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Release Date: 2002-08-08
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This was a print created for Advil's Extra Strength advertising campaign. It was featured nationally in various magazines and papers.... |
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Advil
"Drill"
Views: 5583
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Release Date: 2002-06-03
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These two spots were just recently completed for Young and Rubicam Advertising in Toronto, Canada. It involved a print ad for magazines and two 15 second animated sequences intended to introduce Whitehall-Robin's new Extra Strength Advil product. The concept was to show an unidentified box/surface impervious to even the toughest of forces, which is then revealed to be a box of Extra Strength Advil. The commercials were both produced in under one and a half month's time.... |
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Advil
"Vice"
Views: 5215
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Release Date: 2002-06-03
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This spot was just recently completed for Young and Rubicam Advertising in Toronto, Canada. It involved a print ad for magazines and two 15 second animated sequences intended to introduce Whitehall-Robin's new Extra Strength Advil product. The concept was to show an unidentified box/surface impervious to even the toughest of forces, which is then revealed to be a box of Extra Strength Advil. The commercials were both produced in under one and a half month's time.... |
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Coverna
"Ben Doll"
Views: 4656
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Release Date: 2002-01-13
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Coverna was a 60 second spot with a very short schedule which required two shots of a doll answering a phone. There was approximately 1 week of scheduled time to model the doll and phone, and one week to animate and render two three-second shots. Many dolls were purchased and used as reference to build one hybrid doll containing all the best stereotypical 'doll-like' qualities of each. Minor details were specifically focused on such as faulty airbrushed paint on the hair, glossy plastic highlights, properly functioning creases and pivots in the joints, and realistically matted skin-toned paint... |
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Kellogg's
"Piranha"
Views: 6078
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Release Date: 2002-03-22
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This spot was a 10 second tag, just recently completed for Leo Burnett, featuring a new variation of the Froot Loops family of cereals. Textures were scanned off the original food product, as usual, in order to retain the physical characteristics as much as possible. Bump, specularity and opacity maps were derived off the scans as well. The milk splashes were created with a simple metaball particle system and then composited over the rendered footage during post, along with some additional processing. Final frame renders with VRay proved to be of outstanding quality while remaining under the 3... |
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Toyota Matrix
"Shift Reality"
Views: 10349
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Release Date: 2002-02-22
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Toyota Matrix "Shift Reality" was a spot just recently completed in under 1 month for both cinema and television broadcast. The concept was to show an animated commercial in which Toyota's new car accelerates to such high speeds that the air resistance 'peels' off the animation thus revealing the live-action vehicle underneath. We then follow with several beauty shots of the car driving throughout different environments until it reaches a stop by pulling a dramatic skid into a parking lot. The driver gets out, and the animation catches back up to the car wrapping itself around both the car and... |
Commercials 2001 - This is the parent directory of all commercials for 2001.
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Adams
"BubbaXtreme"
Views: 5955
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Release Date: 2001-11-06
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BubbaXtreme was yet another spot created for Mexico. It involved both traditional and computer animation, both interacting with live action. The product, a lollipop, had to be built in 3D for a 3 second product demo featured halfway through the spot.... |
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Berol
"Fantasy"
Views: 5923
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Release Date: 2001-04-05
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Berol was just recently completed for Grey Advertising in Mexico, under my direction. I'm particularly pleased with how the lighting and rendering turned out for this project, although this has a lot to do with the fact that it was globally illuminated. (For more info on global illumination, see global illumination.) This is the third job I've worked on that required a combination of 2D and 3D animation (see Firestone and Quaker Oats) and, as usual, keeping track of all the footage became a task of its own. With over 10 different layers per scene, it became crucial to have an organized file st... |
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Coca-Cola
"Sundbloom"
Views: 8742
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Release Date: 2001-05-23
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These two digital tests were created for Coca-Cola in order to demonstrate how we could grab one of their original Sundbloom Santa Claus paintings and bring it to life through animation. ... |
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Puma
"Cameroon"
Views: 8272
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Release Date: 2001-11-08
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"Cameroon" was a combination of traditional animation, computer animation, and heavy graphic design, all carefully coordinated together to create a powerful and bold spot for Puma. The environment was first built in 3D, whereupon camera moves were planned out and then printed out as layouts for the traditional animators to work with. For scenes during which the background was secondary to the character's actions, the character was first traditionally animated, and then the backgrounds were matched to him. In other instances, such as in the scene with the camera revolution around the player (im... |
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Tide
"Lemonorama"
Views: 4423
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Release Date: 2001-08-11
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"Lemonorama" was a 10 second spot introducing Tide's new lemon-scented laundry detergent. The director wanted a crisp, clean, and fresh looking style to reflect the product, which is evident through the use of the bold white and yellow color palette used throughout the sequence. The lemons and slices were created in 3D and rendered with a flat lighting scheme in order for them to integrate well with the graphic background icons. The entire spot was also treated as one long camera move, and was therefore created as a 3D animatic first using animation software, prior to breaking it down in After... |
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Alkaseltzer
"Termite"
Views: 9470
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Release Date: 2000-02-11
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There were a total of 5 spots created for Bayer Mexico, under my direction. The advertising agency was BBDO Mexico and I had the pleasure of working with creative director Carl Jones. All of the spots called for live action integration, so there was a fair amount of shooting done for these jobs, also under my supervision. The live action shooting was conducted by "Generator" in Toronto, under the direction of George Morita, also a pleasure to work with. The sound mix was conducted by Clive Barker at "Louder" in Toronto. I'm quite pleased with how the spots turned out, and this is a result of h... |
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Bounce
"ColorSmart"
Views: 4997
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Release Date: 2000-06-11
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This spot involved modeling and animating a Bounce ColorSmart product box unfolding itself and then transforming into a dryer.... |
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Campbell's
"Sopa"
Views: 5464
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Release Date: 2000-08-24
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Not too much to say about this spot. It was for Campbell's Mexico and required a final shot of the can's lid popping open and the articulation of its line.
It was modeled and animated using Softimage, rendered with Mental Ray.... |
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Toyota Celica
"Revs"
Views: 9216
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Release Date: 2000-01-11
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This spot involved creating a fully working animated engine which would be composited as a cross-section view of the car's internal workings. This was actually really challenging, since I know as much about engines as I know about Quantum physics. (That would be 'not much.') Therefore, extensive research into the workings of it, had to be undergone, and then the model had to be accurately constructed off of reference photographs and blueprints. Once this was done, each moving piece of the model was then hooked up to another using mathematical expressions, which were all in turn, linked up to a... |
Commercials 1999 - This is the parent directory of all commercials for 1999.
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Alkaseltzer
"Clam"
Views: 5696
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Release Date: 1999-12-11
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There were a total of 5 spots created for Bayer Mexico, under my direction. The advertising agency was BBDO Mexico and I had the pleasure of working with creative director Carl Jones. All of the spots called for live action integration, so there was a fair amount of shooting done for these jobs, also under my supervision. The live action shooting was conducted by "Generator" in Toronto, under the direction of George Morita, also a pleasure to work with. The sound mix was conducted by Clive Barker at "Louder" in Toronto. I'm quite pleased with how the spots turned out, and this is a result of h... |
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Cap'n Crunch
"Crazy Bones"
Views: 14013
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Release Date: 1999-04-22
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This spot was a 15 second add-on for another previously existing animated Capt'n Crunch spot. It was meant to promote the "Crazy Bones" toys which came in the package, so the idea was to show them in action. ... |
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Kellogg's
"Nutrigrain Twists"
Views: 6877
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Release Date: 1999-03-21
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This spot required a computer generated Kellogg's Nutrigrain bar bursting out of the package into two pieces, and then twisting together to form the product. In order to ensure that we ended up with an accurate representation of the pastry, we decided to break several apart and actually scan the texture, which we then used on our model. The loose flakes were constructed as individual elements, textured, and then applied throughout the surface of the model. The jelly was textured using a procedural shader which dealt with translucency properly. The wrapper bursting open was accomplished through... |
Commercials 1998 - This is the parent directory of all commercials for 1998 and previous.
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BlueWater
"Shark"
Views: 10585
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Release Date: 1997-06-14
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This spot involved a combination of both 3D animation as well as 2D warping, using Elastic Reality. The challenge was to animate a shark talking using previously shot stock footage. This was accomplished by using the same method as that in the movie "Babe", in which the shark face was modeled with multiple mouth positions and then animated to the narration track. It was then tracked to the live footage using manual tracking.... |
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Cartoon Network
"Splat"
Views: 6432
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Release Date: 1998-04-22
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This was a short which was created specifically to be aired at the Ottawa Animation Festival in 1999. Since then, it has won one award and been nominated for another. (For more info see awards). The short is a promo for a show called "Splat", which is shown on the Cartoon Network and promotes talent in the animation industry. It features several lemming-like characters who strut over to the edge of a cliff, and hurl themselves to their deaths, forming the Splat logo with their bodies as they hit the bottom. (It's not as bad as it sounds, really....)
The short was created in just under 3 wee... |
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Firestone
"Signs"
Views: 5473
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Release Date: 1998-09-14
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Firestone was a very graphic spot featuring an arrow darting about and narrowly swerving out of the way so as not to hit obstacles, thus promoting the traction on the tires. It was all done in 3D with the exception of the deer which was traditionally animated, mapped onto geometry for tracking purposes, and then rendered out.
It was modeled and animated using Softimage, rendered with Mental Ray and I believe it was composited with After Effects.... |
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Honeycomb
"Craver"
Views: 34772
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Release Date: 1998-09-10
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The following two spots were created for Post Honeycomb cereal and involved the "Craver" character. The physical model was actually purchased from Industrial Light and Magic, since they had created the initial few commercials with an animatronic character. The character was then rebuilt in Softimage using the model for reference which, once completed, was treated with a custom coded fur plugin written by Colin Withers.... |
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Kellogg's
"Talk Show"
Views: 5993
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Release Date: 1997-10-15
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This spot for Kellogg's was pretty cool since we got the chance to model and animate Mr. Miniwheat in 3D. He was to be integrated with live action, so the shooting had to be done before the animation process began. Although the commercial was in French and required a substantial amount of lip-synching, the language barrier did not present any significant problems for animating.
The spot was modeled and animated with Softimage, rendered with Mental Ray, and composited with Discreet's Flame.
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Red Giant Television
"Murphy The Rat"
Views: 3587
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Release Date: 1998-03-20
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"Murphy The Rat" was a pitch for a television series pilot that was in production several years ago. It involved modeling, posing and animating several characters, some of which are shown below.
In particular, it's interesting to note Mental Ray's stunning toon-tracing technology here going all the way back to 1998. Not only is the anti-aliasing extremely high in quality, but the option to select and vary line thickness across the subject adds a whole new level of customization for the 3D artist.
These characters are not my designs, only my poses.
Modeling and animation was done with... |
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Rotel
"Tomatoes"
Views: 5331
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Release Date: 1998-10-14
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This was a fairly straightforward spot consisting of a can of Rotel hopping about different dishes and converting them into tastier meals. The model was built from measurements of the real thing, so as to make sure proportions were accurate. The most challenging aspect of this commercial was trying to figure out just how far to bend the can without distorting it too much, while still providing enough flexibility to convey body language and expressions.
It was modeled and animated with Softimage, rendered with Mental Ray, and composited with Discreet's Flame.... |
Demoreels - This is the parent directory of all demoreels.
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Demoreel 2006
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Release Date: 2006-06-20
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This is the latest cut of my 2006 demoreel. All work seen here has either been directed by myself, co-directed by myself, or worked on by myself. This work ranges from various studios over a number of years.
You can also download it directly from here:
Demoreel 2006 - 480x360
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Film Work - This is the parent directory of all film related work.
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Thomas, Magic Railroad
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Release Date: 2000-03-17
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This job required digital touch-ups for the feature film "Thomas and the Magic Railroad". After the plates were shot, it was realized that the train needed to have dust on it, in order to suggest inactivity. Because the original footage was shot clean, the only way to achieve this was to add the dust digitally. Here are two examples of this in which each of the frames show the clean, original plate followed by the digitally altered one.
All editing was done in Photoshop using 2k Targa files.... |
Personal Work - This is the parent directory of all personal work.
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Billy Bob Boone
"Half-witted Hillbilly"
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Release Date: 2007-10-29
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Billy Bob Boone was originally created for CGTalk’s "Strange Behavior" competition, in an attempt to capture oddity through expression. Please click here to see an HD version.
Billy Bob has also been published in this month's "3D Creative" magazine! To download the free version, please click here.
He was created using ZBrush, textured with 3dsmax, and ren... |
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Boris
"Alien Invader"
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Release Date: 2005-01-28
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Although he's technically supposed to be a merciless alien invader, Boris is far too compassionate for planetary conquest and instead "comes in peace", quite often evading near-death capture by the various worlds he visits. After a long day of harrowing escapes, Boris enjoys sipping tea in the evening while watching "Friends" on Tele-ZOVA VX1.... |
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Carlito
"South American Horned Slug"
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Release Date: 2005-09-11
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Carlito is one of the few remaining and extremely rare South American Horned Slugs. Although quite curious and passive in nature, South American Horned Slugs are astonishingly stupid and have therefore dwindled down in population faster than panties being hurled at a Tom Jones concert. It is presently estimated, or perhaps optimistically misjudged, that only a mere hundred thousand exist in the deepest, dampest and drabbest of Chilean jungles. Being descendents of the Giant South African Slug species (and still a mind-boggling mystery how they crossed the continents), they tend to secrete a th... |
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CGTalk
"Matte Painting Challenge - NHM"
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This is a photo composite matte painting created for CGTalk's Matte Painting Challenge, Natural History Museum. The objective was to take the supplied image plate and develop it into a fantasy landscape centuries from now in which nature has completely taken over.
There were three main stages to complete: The removal of all people and signs from the original plate, the extension of the original plate by 50%, and the reconstruction of the final matte painting.
All of the submissions were spectacular an... |
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Character Designs
"Concept Sketches"
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Release Date: 2005-01-01
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These are character sketches that were produced over the span of approximately 8 years. They range across a broad spectrum of styles and were created as conceptual designs, pre-production work, final character drawings and various purposes. Some were also created for experimental reasons.
Most of these sketches are gestural in nature as I strive to capture as much personality in my characters as possible and I find keeping the drawings 'loose' enforces that.... |
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Crayons
"Faber Castell"
Views: 5170
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Release Date: 2002-08-21
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A simple, but elegant project done over the period of 3 days.
These images were modeled and textured with 3dsmax 6.0, rendered with VRay 1.08 using traditional lighting techniques with global illumination.... |
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Digital Imaging
"Radioactive"
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This is a 2D design piece created entirely in Photoshop from a source photo by Sgt. James H. Christophe. The image was constructed from over 30 random design elements that were each color corrected, treated and staged accordingly to create the dramatic mood it inspires.
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The sepia color palette further emphasizes the suggestion of a toxic environment and the grunge treatment delivers a feeling of threat.
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Digital Imaging
"Swat"
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Release Date: 2008-04-05
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This is a 2D design piece created entirely in Photoshop from a source photo by the City of Long Beach, California. The image was constructed from over 20 war-torn photo elements that were each color corrected, treated and staged appropriately to capture the excitement it inspires.
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A lot of tricks were used in order to force the viewer's attention to the soldier's face, the most noticeable one being a slight zoom blur.
This project was produced using Photoshop... |
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Ferrari
"Enzo"
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Release Date: 2008-02-20
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This is a gorgeous model of the very prestigious Ferrari Enzo graciously posted for free on Turbosquid by "Heggy".
I finished off the missing pieces, re-textured it, and set-up a production print lighting rig. Thanks to "Heggy" for giving the CG community such a fantastic model to play with.
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Greeblelicious
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Release Date: 2008-08-01
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Greeblelicious is a community gallery website devoted to greeble artistry. You may be asking yourself what the hell that is exactly and the best way to explain it is for you to see some of the samples for yourself.
Greeble usually comes in many forms. It can be a plugin, script, particle system, or even a custom effect that can be used to scatter and distribute large amounts of fine geometry with your favorite 3D application. You can find the software just ... |
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Katzuo
"Little Ninja"
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Release Date: 2008-01-08
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Katzuo was an experiment in combining fundamental & simple character forms contrasted with highly detailed texture work. This fusion of opposite style aspects creates a unique image that instantly captures the gestural form of the character yet continues to attract the eye to different areas of the image in which new details are constantly making themselves visible.
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This contrast follows through to subject matter as well featuring a relatively cute character wielding a fierce weap... |
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Logitech
"Optical Mouse"
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Release Date: 2002-04-05
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This was a fairly straight forward modeling, lighting and rendering project to present four simple yet elegant renders of Logitech's optical wheel mouse. The lighting setup was somewhat challenging in order to achieve a crisp image with full tonal range, none of which is blown out or underexposed.
The translucency of the red plastic was achieved using VRay's absorption features.... |
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Marcus
"Experiment #68"
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Release Date: 2008-02-19
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Marcus was sculpted, textured and displaced with ZBrush 3, rendered with VRay 1.5 RC3, and composited with Photoshop.
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Background treatment created with photo-composites within Photoshop. Depth of Field created with DOF PRO.... |
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Microcosm
"Brazil R/S"
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Release Date: 2001-10-22
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These are images rendered with Splutterfish's Brazil R/S 0.2.2.6 public test version.... |
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Pixila
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Release Date: 2007-12-13
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UPDATE: PIXILA 3.0 PRE-RELEASE NOW ONLINE!
Pixila is a ground-breaking website specifically developed to provide cutting-edge professional portfolio services to artists and agencies from virtually any type of creative industry, all 100% free.
Combined with highly personalized member galleries, unlimited album and image uploads, specialized portfolio management, professional gallery presentation, and peer to peer tools more powerful than you’ve ever seen before, Pixila e... |
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Ronald
"Disgruntled Butler"
Views: 5998
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Release Date: 2005-09-11
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Ronald is an old and miserable sixth generation butler who is profoundly unhappy with his chosen profession. Despite this, Ronald keeps at it every day in an effort to carry on the prestigious butler family tradition, and especially to honour his father "Ronald Bottler Senior The Fifth", who had the noble privilege of serving the great "Master Reginald H. McDonald", also known as the inventor of the superbly popular and ever best-selling unicycle training wheels. During his off hours, Ronald enjoys sitting prostrate by the fireplace in his finest suit reading through his dated encyclopedia of ... |
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Sammy
"Intergalactic Troublemaker"
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Release Date: 2005-01-28
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Sammy travels the galaxy with his sidekick Charlie for the sole purpose of "disturbing the peace". He is known by many as "The Troublemaker", or more simply put, "The Troubler". Sammy peddles faulty weaponry and defective warp engines for income, often reselling such scrap for more than ten times their worth. Although Sammy may appear to be quite reptilian in nature, he is actually quite a ladies man and has a bad habit of getting caught red handed by his multiple girlfriends across the galaxy. Currently, there are several hundred a... |
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The Sphere Project
Views: 12185
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Release Date: 2006-11-14
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The Sphere Project is a website developed by Richard Rosenman and Michael Kocurek. The purpose is simple; create the most captivating and visually appealing sphere from a provided scene using any 3D program and renderer of choice. We encourage everyone to submit their renders regardless of their skill level so long as they adhere to the rules. However, those with the best renders will receive the highest ratings and possibly make the front page. The goal is to rise to the top, through the use of clever ideas, thoughtful execution, technical... |
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Walnuts
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Release Date: 2007-06-25
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A quick and simple render of some walnuts.
The walnut was modeled in Silo and the environment in 3dsmax. It was rendered with VRay 1.5 RC3 and composited with Photoshop.... |
Research Work - This is the parent directory of all research work.
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3D Fractals
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Release Date: 2009-03-01
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This is a set of experimental 3D fractals generated with various software applications for the technical and creative exploration of computer generated abstract mesh creation.
All of these beautiful and sophisticated fractals belong to the quaternion, hypercomplex, cubic Mandelbrot, complexified quaternion and octonion renderings of the Mandelbrot and Julia sets. Some others are based on iterative 3x3 matrices where power series are utilized for transcendental and trig functions. The color treatment for each fractal was decided upon by it's shape and form.
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Buddha
Views: 6790
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Release Date: 2002-08-04
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This is one of the 3D scans from the Computer Graphics Laboratory 3D Scanning Repository at Stanford University. It has been widely used in the 3D industry for rendering engine tests due to it's high polygon count. The original comes in the University's .PLY format and contains 543,652 vertices and 1,087,716 triangles. However, after the conversion to 3dsmax (using Headus Tools' PLY23DS.EXE), it was cut down to 151,362 vertices and 293,232 triangles. If you click on the link below, you can see the high-resolution render which was output at 2000x4000. The mesh detail came out pretty well with t... |
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Buddhabrot
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Release Date: 2010-07-26
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Buddhabrot is a powerful fractal exploration filter for Adobe Photoshop® based on the unique Mandelbrot set rendering technique developed by Melinda Green. Instead of plotting pixels based on the number of iterations used, they are colored according to density counts. In addition, if each color channel is iterated differently, the rendered image appears to have a multi-colored, nebula-like effect much like modern NASA galaxy renders. The single color channel rendering technique has been termed the Buddhabrot by Lori Gardi due to its similarity to the Hindu God 'Ganesha', while the multi-channe... |
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Cornell Box Model
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Release Date: 2004-03-25
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The Cornell Box is a simple physical environment in which lighting, geometry, and material reflectance properties are measured and then compared to a computer generated model in order to test simulated lighting accuracy.
This paper focuses on the construction of a physical Cornell Box model and all lighting tests associated with it.
Perhaps the most comprehensive archive regarding the Cornell Box can be found online at the Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics. This fascinating site contains all relevant... |
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Dodge RAM SRT-10
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Release Date: 2004-12-01
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Silver (metallic) car paint consists of both glossy and sharp reflections.
This is very difficult to do in one pass as most renderers offer the ability to produce glossy or sharp reflections. The images in this project are experiments in combining both types of reflections together, produced in multiple passes, in an effort to create a more convincing metallic car paint.
This project was textured and lit with 3dsmax 6.0, rendered with VRay 1.45.70 and composited with Photoshop. It was rendered with conventional studio lighting techniques in conjunction with global illumination.... |
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DOF PRO
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Release Date: 2006-09-23
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DOF PRO is the result of ongoing research, development and programming collaboration between Richard Rosenman and Martin Vicanek in an effort to produce a Photoshop® compliant plugin capable of delivering high quality, sophisticated depth of field and bokeh effects quickly and efficiently as a post process.
Additional information (inluding demos, samples and pricing) can be found at the official DOF PRO website, http://www.dofpro.com.
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Domelighting
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Release Date: 2004-03-05
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Dome lighting is actually a rather old rendering technique which was used several years ago for simulating global illumination before consumer-based global illumination renderers were widely available. The advantages are primarily speed, but at the sacrifice of (substantial) quality. In contrast, however, flickering in animation due to global illumination sample artifacting is eliminated because the shadows maps remain consistent throughout animation.
The concept of dome lighting is rather simple. Because global illumination rendering projects light samples from a hemispheric location surro... |
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Flood
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Release Date: 2002-03-25
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This is a VERY rough test that was done in one day to simulate a cheese flooding a room. There are many layers that should have still been produced such as additional shadow passes for the beams and various other elements. First, a digital photo was taken from a specific POV which was then roughly modeled in 3dsmax with geometry based on object placement and location. The photo was then camera-mapped onto the geometry and the model imported into RealFlow where the liquid simulation was produced.
Once the simulation was finished, it was exported back into 3dsmax, textured and then spl... |
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Fractus
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Release Date: 2010-04-07
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Fractus is a free, powerful fractal exploration filter for Adobe Photoshop®. It is capable of plotting various Mandelbrot and Julia set fractals along with their inverse counterparts and exponential powers. Fractus' coloring algorithms generate beautiful fractal images with advanced smooth-shading techniques and full anti-aliasing support. The filter is 100% multi-threaded for multi-core workstations and offers 48 bit color capabilities. Fractus supports numerous unique features including fractal-space image mapping (orbit traps), image color palette generation, variable bailout function t... |
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GI Light Transfer
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Release Date: 2007-11-04
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Global Illumination radiance works through the transmission of light bouncing off various objects and taking a predetermined amount of that object's diffuse color with it, in order to combine it with the next object it encounters. By setting a secondary bounce limit, you can increase or decrease rendertimes significantly and control the amount of environmental light distribution throughout your scene.
This simple experiment was produced in order to test the relationship between light bounces and rendertimes, as well as study the resulting effects of adjusting these variables. In theory, the... |
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Greeble
Views: 33962
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Release Date: 2005-01-18
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Greeble is a great little plugin for 3dsmax written by Tom Hudson for procedurally generating detailed geometry on any mesh object. Although it was originally created for detailing "Spaceship models, cityscapes and Death Stars", it is also particularly useful for testing global illumination speed and accuracy as it provides endless crevices and clefts for indirect illumination to interact within. As a result, images generated using global illumination in conjunction with Greeble can require some lengthy rendertimes, but can also produce some beautiful results. If you would like to download Gre... |
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Lumiere
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Release Date: 2009-07-12
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Lumiere is a powerful Adobe Photoshop® plugin capable of generating advanced glow effects.
Please click here to download Lumiere.
Please click here to register Lumiere.
Lumiere can produce sophisticated specular blooms, flared highlights and diffused glows combined with total control over every possible variable, all at the artist's fingertips. Lumiere works on image luminance just like real glows do. The brighter areas of the image are processed int... |
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Metablob Morphs
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Release Date: 2006-04-10
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This is a test involving morphing metablob elements. The purpose was to achieve a fluid transition from one object into another without the laborious use of geometric morph targets.
This was achieved by animating metablob elements from one position into another while keeping their blob threshold within limits of one another. This results in an object constantly changing form without requiring geometric morph targets.... |
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Particle PRO
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Release Date: 2009-03-11
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Particle PRO is a particle system program developed by myself in an effort to understand the mathematics involved in point emission simulations. It does not claim to achieve anything more sophisticated than other typical particle systems since this was coded for educational purposes and not commercial applications.
You can download a free copy of Particle PRO by clicking here.
Particle PRO comes in the form of a Photoshop® plugin since it makes use of image information for user-configurable emission and... |
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Photoshop Plugins
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Release Date: 2007-10-18
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Throughout my years as an artist, I have taken a keen interest in the mathematics involved in generating computer graphics imagery. As a result, I have experimented with C+ computer graphics programming and developed a growing set of Adobe Photoshop® compatible filters, all of which have been enthusiastically accepted and used by the CG community. While some are commercial programs, most are freeware and readily available from the software section of the site. With the introduction of Windows Vista, and at the ongoing request of hundreds of users, all the filters have been updated to suppo... |
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Pin Art
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Release Date: 2004-02-02
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This was a test produced in order to achieve a similar effect to a "Pin Art" toy which creates images by extending an array of pins.
This effect is quite simple actually, and the basic concept is to read an image, look at the luminance values of the pixels, and displace geometry accordingly. The brighter the pixel, the greater the displacement and effectively, the higher the pin elevates. The main problem in achieving this is that building any type of geometry and displacing it with the pixel values will distort the mesh. This is because the left vertices of a mesh may be displaced 10% whil... |
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Reactor Dominos
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Release Date: 2007-01-24
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This was a one day project produced at Hatch Studios Ltd. to develop a 100% computer simulated dynamics-driven domino sequence.
The only keyframed part of this entire animation is the first domino which was animated to fall onto the second and therefore trigger the reaction.
The sequence was completely generated with 3dsmax's Reactor system and took less than 5 minutes to fully calculate 13 seconds of animation which would have otherwise taken weeks to do manually.
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Reactor Rigid Bodies
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Release Date: 2007-10-01
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These are tests using 3dsmax's physics simulation plugin, Reactor. These simulations focus specifically on rigid bodies involving large quantities of elements, each with appropriate size, weight and friction properties. In addition, there are collision objects which are always color-coded in blue.
Although the nature of these tests is rather simple, creating a fully-functional and physically-correct environment can be quite challenging. All variables must work collectively together in order to produce a functional simulation and usually persistent tweaking is required before a usable... |
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Simulating Radiance
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Release Date: 2004-03-10
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The following technique explains how one can simulate the effect of radiance (diffuse colour transfer from object to object) through the use of object-localized lights. This technique effectively eliminates the use of any global illumination renderer and is therefore applicable by virtually any competent 3D animation software.
The concept of simulating radiance is rather simple, although it can become quite complicated depending on the complexity of the scene. The idea is place various lights at distinct object locations, colored similarly to the object's diffuse color. A falloff must be sp... |
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Sponza Atrium
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Release Date: 2004-03-15
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The Atrium Sponza Palace, Dubrovnik, is an elegant model created by Marko Dabrovic at RNA Studio. It was graciously donated to the public for a radiosity competition held by CGTechniques.com in 2002 and was kindly converted by Christian Bauer into numerous other formats (Max, 3ds, Dxf, Obj, Dwg, Vrml97, Mega Pov, Rhino) for use with various commercial 3D applications and renderers. Over the years, the Sponza Atrium scene has since become one of the most popular 3D scenes for testing global illumination and radiosity due to it's specific architectural structure which is particularly complex for... |
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Tri-Bar
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Release Date: 2004-08-27
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This was a test produced over the span of a few hours to attempt to create the tri-bar optical illusion using 3D animation.
Created with 3dsmax, VRay and After Effects.... |
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VRay Absorption
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Release Date: 2003-03-10
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Absorption is used for simulating translucency. Unlike Sub-Surface Light Scattering (SSS, 3S), the light is absorbed within the subject instead of bouncing about and contributing to internal illumination. The following are various renders testing absorption with VRay. (Original renders were 4x as big.) "Venus" and "Athene" models are from the Deespona 3D model collection. "Dragon" and "Buddha" models are from the Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory 3D Scanning Repository.
Rendered with VRay Advanced 1.09t.... |
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VRay Absorption Tutorial
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Release Date: 2003-09-03
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Due to the large volume of email I receive regarding the Venus absorption renders, I've decided to set up a quick tutorial on VRay absorption which may answer some of your questions. There are several tutorial files below available for download. In order to use them, you must have 3dsmax 4.2 and Vray Advanced v1.09.03.
Absorption is used for simulating translucency. Unlike Sub-Surface Light Scattering (SSS, 3S), the light is absorbed within the subject instead of bouncing about and contributing to internal illumination.
Absorption within VRay is produced through a combination of Glossine... |
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VRay Displacement
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Release Date: 2003-11-03
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This image was created as a test for VRay's advanced micro displacement feature. The geometric object you see below is a simple grid plane with a basic 288 triangles. This has been rendered with global illumination lighting in combination with traditional lighting techniques and VRay Area shadows. The original was rendered at 2240x2240.... |
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VRay Reflections
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Release Date: 2004-03-11
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A simple test combining glossy and sharp reflections together on one object, in one pass.
Rendered with VRay 1.45.70.... |
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Watercolor
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Release Date: 2004-11-12
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This was a test produced in order to achieve a similar effect to a watercolor ink being applied to paper.
The example below was created with Particle Flow in 3dsmax 6.0 by animating an emitter along a spline and animating the speed (spread) of the particles. The slower the emission, the thinner the line and vice-versa. The example below used 100,000 particles.... |
Short Films - This is the parent directory of all short films.
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D.A.N.D.Y.
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Release Date: 2005-10-10
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D.A.N.D.Y. was our second short film produced at Redrover Studios Ltd., following the success of Plumber. It was begun in 2005 and because I left the company shortly thereafter, the work shown here consists of my production on the short during that time. Since then, D.A.N.D.Y. has continued to be developed although it is now far from what the original concept involved, a concept initially thought up by one of the staff members.
The original storyline behind D.A.N.D.Y. was to depict a planet, completely constructed from metal, whic... |
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Plumber
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Release Date: 2003-02-01
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Plumber was our first fully computer generated short film produced over a six month period at Redrover Animation Studios Ltd. in association with Bravo!Fact. It was directed by myself and Andy Knight and produced by Randi Yaffa. The concept initially began as a pitch for a grant from Bravo!Fact and, after a storyboard and animatic was created and submitted by Andy Knight, we were chosen as one of approximately 12 final contestants. With the grant officially awarded to us, we began production only one week after that in late August, 2002. The purpose of producing the film was to introduce Redro... |
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Tragedy of the Cosmos
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Release Date: 2009-07-31
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Tragedy of the Cosmos is a work-in-progress short film from Hatch Studios Ltd. involving two angry astronauts, a broken ship and a mysterious planet. Without giving too much away, tensions build as our two characters blame each other for their unfortunate situation.
Included here is a short animated sequence of one of the shots; a flashback explaining how the two managed to crash land into the only planet in the solar system. In addition, some production prints of the characters and props are also included in the images section.... |
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Wallpaper
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Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Due to numerous requests, I have provided some images for personal use as desktop wallpaper. All images have been rendered at a resolution of 1600x1200. To install, first go to the "IMAGES & MORE" section and select the one you want. Then simply click on the "Click here to view full-sized image..." link underneath and wait for the wallpaper to load. Once loaded, right-click on the image and select Set as Background or Set as Wallpaper. That's it!
If you wish to have your wallpaper fit your screen, click on START > SETTINGS > CONTROL PANEL > DISPLAY > BACKGROUND and select Stretch under Pict... |
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