Mummy & Speed Racer

I've been updating my portfolio over the past few weeks. Still some more stuff to come, but most recently is some of my work on Mummy 3.

3LL: Working

I'm now freelancing with the fellas at Three Legged Legs. A great group of artists w/ a great project.

Digital Domain: Mummy 3

I finished working on Mummy: Tomb of the Emperor Dragon this last Friday. I had a great time on the project and learned a lot. I can't wait to see the movie as I'm a big fan of the first two. It feels good to contribute to a movie as a fan.
I'm currently trying to catch up as everything always seems to slip when these projects go into six or seven day weeks near the end but this recovery won't be too bad. I just updated my portfolio with an improved layout with better navigation...at least I think so. I also added an "Interviews"page which links to my work for mymentalray.com.

Speed Racer: New Trailer

New American Speed Racer trailer.
Also check out the new European Speed Racer trailer. This movie is going to be awesome.

DD

Today marks my first day working at Digital Domain. I'm excited with the opportunity and feel lucky to get to work on Speed Racer!

MYMR: 2.0 to launch soon!

I've been lucky enough to help with some of the interviews that are going to be released with the new My Mental Ray site. Keep a close eye out for an amazing new website and resource.

Buck: Fuel spots

We just recently finished two more Fuel ID spots!

The Sakrifice spot was really enjoyable to work on.... a fun combination of 3D and 2d. My first time doing frame by frame cell stuff in Photoshop in CS3.

Also on motionographer!! Woohoo.

View a high rez version on my portfolio.

New Design Section

I've added a new design section to my portfolio. As time goes on I find myself spending more and more time on design so and I hope to include these works in my portfolio now.
I've started off by featuring our game Kleek. We are getting very close to it's public beta release which we plan on doing early January 08'. The project has officially been under development for over a year now and each day it gets more and more exciting.

My Portfolio Re-Design

I've updated my portfolio....not all the links are working yet but I just felt like releasing because I'll be updating it for many days to come.

BUCK: Beast

Chris Lee in action here designed this fun piece for a fuel spot at Buck. Not too much 3D in this piece but I did get to help transform Chris' designs over to the 3D character. Toon shading again in maya with thin clean outlines. Enjoy

Buck: Gravity

We recently finished this piece Damn Gravity for fuel tv. I personally really liked it because of it's unique graphic style and character animation. The character, skate ramp and props were done with maya's toon shader and outlines, all rendered on separate passes. I rendered out the outline pass when the character was un-smoothed to give it a rigid offset feel....the toon shading was rendered with the characters smoothed.
Actually not too much 3D rendering work here, a lot of great design, and hand drawn stuff.

Contractopia

Check out our latest spot at Buck....Contractopia.
This was a really fun piece that we did about four weeks.

Tower of Grantville Stills

Here are some stills from the tower of Grantville created at Buck. Please view the quicktime here.

Buck:Comcast: Mech

Here's a piece that I helped with the lighting/shading/comping. Mental Ray's car paint shader, and L_glass are the special shaders here.
Everything was broken out into separate passes at render time. Turned out pretty nice.

Buck: Budwieser: Pitch

My love for glass began with L_glass.

Cingular ads find their way to Motionographer

It's exciting to see that Buck's two new spots for Cingular made their way to Motionographer. Check out the spots if you haven't already seen them. Two 30 second spots in 4 weeks...not too bad! Go Buck. Go BBDO.