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00:00 – Title Card
00:01 – Prey, 2022.
Only the CC as a creative note to make the blood read as more red in the misty plate.
Nuke.
00:08 – Prey, 2022.
Apply metallic highlight to wounds. Clean-up around hands and green blood splatter, where as the full integration (arm, hand, blood) was by John Castillo.
Nuke.
00:09 – Prey, 2022. – Two Shots
Integration of wound, CC, CG mouse, and tracking. Also help from a senior compositor to apply flicker from torches to connecting shots.
Nuke.
00:17 – Little People S2, “Braver Together.” 2018.
Uses surrounding shots to make solo passes of 3D firefly trails. Apply these renders as alpha hold-outs on cards. Match live-action reference of fireflies glow timing. 3D firefly glow.
Maya, Renderman, Nuke.
00:22 – Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania, 2023.
Update previous script with new CG suit render, CC goo at neck to match the chin, and clean-up at the neck. Had help with removing torso from plate. QC, check black/ white levels.
Nuke.
00:25 – Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Optimus Prime marketing stills. 2023.
Relight using warm and cold colours from lighting AOVs to contrast and compose shape. Eye glow is enhanced using ID passes, grades.
Nuke.
00:28 – Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. 2023.
Apply Arcee's shadow for both transformers character and motorcycle, and clean-up some Keying roto-masks for another artist.
00:31 – Space Ranger Roger, “Roger Sticks the Landing.” 2017.
Using goo push shape in plate render, added Ncloth to create second impact berm from scooter wheelat screen-right. CC and roto-masks to blend edges into FG, on top of plate.
Nuke, Maya, Ncloth.
00:32 – Personal Project: Action VFX Plates, "Car-Fire."
Place the burn marks, fire footage, and sparks. CC the fire and smoke for look of a fire that has been happening for a while. Glow and tracking.
Nuke.
00:33 – Personal Project: Action VFX Practice Footage, "Keying."
Worked on outer edges for hair details, removed holes in body of key. WIP.
Nuke.
00:35 – Charlie’s Colorforms City S1, “Charlie is Super.” 2019.
Create hero solo moment with glow, blur, and animation timing for when 2D Harmony sequences appear.
Nuke.
00:40 – Little People S2, “Kolby Speaks Up.” 2018.
Nuke bubbles and rain-spout tools are from previous episodes. Interactive bubbles clinging to the scrubbers are Maya bubbles.
Nuke, Maya.
00:44 – Inspector Gadget S2, “Midnight Madness.” 2017.
Roto-lightening shapes are timed on-off using Echo-node. Apply skeleton graphic and glow on skeleton. Matches look of reoccurring treatment, established in “Jurassic Jerk” (2017).
Nuke. Photoshop.
00:46 – Acapulco, Short, 2014.
Clean mattes of screen-left wall, rotoscoping, and tracking to hold mattes during camera move.
After Effects, Photoshop.
00:40 – Space Ranger Roger S1, “Roger Sticks the Landing.” 2017.
Animated glow pulse. Confetti matches show standard treatment, reoccurs in every episode.
Nuke.
00:55 – Jim Hensen's Doozers S2, “Sand Sailer.” 2018.
Sand poofs follow locators constrained to surfboards. Adapted from Molly’s jet-pack, used throughout S2. CC to match BG sand, and applying more gravity and particle wind than Molly's jet-pack.
Maya, Nuke.
0:58 – Outro Title Card, Charlie’s Colorforms City S1, “Mystery Charlie.” 2019.
Rainbow is cut from the end of the shot using the Harmony/Maya “Brain-bow.”
Nuke.
Video run-time: 59 seconds.
