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Offworld Native

Concept, Art Direction, Design For this more developed concept I had a brightly colored southwestern Kachina (Katsina) inspired figure in mind, but updated with future-tech. After getting the idea down on paper I modeled the helmet in 3d, which I composited over photographic plates that I...

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Once Upon a Time ABC

In 2014 I spent some time at Zoic and provided modeling, lookdev lighting, rendering and some other generalist services on a number of commercials and episodics including ABC's Once Upon A Time.   Lit and Rendered in Maya / Vray...

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Oblivion

In 2012, while at Digital Domain, I joined the 3d team on Joe Kosinski's 'Oblivion.' I worked on a variety of lookdev, lighting, rendering and design tasks as well as grooming and styling the hair for the Tom Cruise digital double. This was my last...

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CG Giant Fallon yells during battle in Bryan Singer's 2013 film, Jack the Giant Slayer with contributing CG by John Niehuss in 2012 while at Digital Domain.

Jack The Giant Slayer

In early 2012, while at Digital Domain, I worked with the LA based lighting and rendering team on Bryan Singer's 'Jack the Giant Slayer.' All shots lit and rendered with katana / arnold.

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An Asgard soldier picks up a CG Casket of Ancient Winters, lit and rendered by John Niehuss, in this shot from Marvel's Thor, 2011...

Thor

In 2011, while at Digital Domain in Los Angeles, I worked on the intro sequence of Thor - lighting and rendering various shots in the flashback night battle sequences involving the Odinguards and the Frost Giants. I also did some light lookdev using renderman and...

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A fully CG shot of Atom the robot in the final fight of Real Steel.

Real Steel

In early 2011, while at Digital Domain, I had the pleasure of working on Reel Steel on the lighting and rendering team. It was a fun, well-run show and a great movie to boot! I lit the robot Atom in the sequence where he first...

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TRON:Legacy

From January to December 2010, I worked on Disney's Tron:Legacy while at Digital Domain, Venice. I was part of the maya / vray lighting team and worked primarily on the lightbike, lightjet and final confrontation sequences. I contributed lighting, rendering, lookdev and various one-off animation...

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Buick LaCrosse

During a brief stint at Motion Theory (now Mirada) in 2009 I worked on this Buick spot For MacLaren McCann (now McCann Canada). I pushed for rendering this spot using a then-new linear pipeline and lookdeved, lit and rendered the car as such. I also...

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GMC Terrain

In 2010 I briefly worked at the now defunct Sway Studios in Culver City. For this GMC Terrain spot I lit and rendered the exterior of the car in all of these shots and did some other various 3d generalist stuff along with scene troubleshooting....

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Chevy Malibu

One of the more rewarding projects of my early career. I contributed quite a bit of work in various capacities across a series of 3 commercials for Chevy Malibu directed by Joe Kosinski, whose project Tron:Legacy I later worked on. On this series of commercials,...

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