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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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