Finished a series of visual fx shots for the National Geographic Channel’s “Supercoasters,” a documentary by Indigo Films on the possible future of rollercoasters. In it, we used our digital imagination to speculate a coaster that freefalls from the tallest building in San Francisco, then winds through the city and ends by taking the two arches of the Golden Gate. It was a lot of fun to manipulate fantasy in...
Back in 2004 and 2005, Matt and I did a series of fast-paced commercials in a wide variety of fun, eye-catching, animated styles. These were the bread-and-butter of my days at LittleBeast for awhile, and while they were quick-and-dirty, they were also kinda fun since I was given pretty wide berth and expected to do something new and different in each one. For awhile we featured a cheesy “cut the...
Matt and I at LittleBeast did this little mockup Saturn commercial for our friend Randy at Goodby Silverstein and Partners ad agency in San Francisco. The car rotation itself was supplied to us; the rest I pulled from various sources, or animated into existence from relative scratch, then composited together in After Effects. The music track, in my opinion, was the most brilliant detail of all. (Also supplied.) Kinda fun...
I’m not sure this trailer was ever seen. It was produced for E3, but at the last minute play-testing intervened and the lead character got suddenly redesigned (a decision I totally agreed with, in spite of the negative effect on showcasing our work). Basically she got changed from a rather homely female pirate to a more attractive one. (And I think the title became “Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat”...