Another of the girls-in-white-limbo, this time for Valentine’s day. We continued with the oversized jewelry theme from before, only now there’s cupid and a bow and arrow as well. (Who knew cupid used suction-tipped arrows?) Who wants roses when you can have a diamond? In addition to directing, editing, and compositing the spot (yes, including rotoing those oversized rings), I also had to show Katie (our cute blonde model) how...
‘Tis the season to buy big diamonds, apparently. Another Teshler Inc. spot for Samuels Diamonds, featuring our lovely ladies in short black dresses, this time in winter white with oversized ornaments. In addition to directing this spot on a big white cyc at the 501 Stage, I cut and composited the spot, including way too much roto of jewelry and diamonds for the tree.
Here’s a pitch that the client loved but never quite found a place for. I produced the bulk of this with only stills, cut together with a beautiful piece of music from the kind folks at Tequila Mockingbird. Then we shot the final scene using a Brevis 35mm adapter to give it that nice filmic depth-of-field. We thought for awhile that this was going to be the next campaign for...
Here’s the opening cut-scene we produced for American McGee’s “Alice” game. The final trailer came out a bit nicer, I think, but our constraints on the open were rather huge. We had something like a 10-page script worth of information to distill down to a couple of minutes, and a rather meager budget and time-table to boot. So I dreamed up a creative way to tell the story mostly through...