Hey February

Here is another spot I've recently completed. This is one of the first spots for a new campaign, and I'm happy with how this one turned out. The color effects were all done in Red Giant's Magic Bullet Suite for After Effects.

The still pictures at the beginning and end of the spot were taken (and treated) by our in-house photographer, Aaron Lindberg. Aaron is an amazing photographer, as his site and photoblog show, and he helped me a lot with this series of spots.

I should note that I converted it for the web using Tyler Loch's wonderful app, iSquint, mainly used for compressing videos for use on 5G iPods. iSquint was able to convert a fullscreen, 625mb uncompressed quicktime movie into a 3mb, 320x240 mp4 with little quality loss. iSquint is truly the bees' knees.

Speaking of recent spots, the "8-Bit Theater" spot in the previous post was eventually killed by the clients' legal consultants, after it was deemed too close to its inspiration, Super Mario Brothers 2, although those were the instructions I was given. I guess they didn't want to have to deal with a lawsuit, so they killed it. While it won't see the light of day in its current iteration, the concept is going to be redesigned, and the spot will somehow live on.

My Maya 3D class is chugging along at a blinding clip. We're in the middle of building a fully modeled house and environment, which I'll be sure to post so you can see how bad I am at 3D modeling. The only screencap I have so far is a half-built catapult that consumed a recent Sunday. (Click for bigger image.)



You might notice that is a Windows XP screenshot, because the catapult was built on my edit machine at work. Luckily for me, that means I get to spend just about every waking hour in front of a computer, either at work while doing actual work, at 3D class, or back at work while working on something for 3D class.

Hey, I'm back in front of a computer, screw this