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Background Visuals for Shania Twain Concert 1 Dec 2012 | 12:00 pm
I recently worked on some background visuals for Shania Twain’s new residency show Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas - “Shania: Still the One”. The song I worked on was “Don’t be Stupid” which has an upbeat ...
WET Design 19 Jan 2012 | 10:14 am
This week, I was hired by WET Design to join their animation department. I am using Side Effects Houdini mostly, creating realistic water and fire simulations. Working at a company that doesn’t primar...
AOA Access – Intro Title Sequence 16 Mar 2011 | 01:16 pm
Click here to view the embedded video. For Solutions by Design, I created this introduction animation for one of their video productions. Everything start to finish was about 2 weeks. I used Maya, an...
New Year 2011 Update 13 Jan 2011 | 10:32 pm
Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve updated the blog. Since last summer until this past December, I’ve been very busy completing a number of 3d models and animations for a client. After I graduated las...
Siggraph 2010 1 Aug 2010 | 02:52 pm
Siggraph 2010 was held in Los Angeles, CA this year at the LA Convention Center. This was my first Siggraph conference, so I went with high expectations. However, I was left a little disappointed. Th...
Orthia – VTOL – Thesis opening shot 16 May 2010 | 01:39 pm
Click here to view the embedded video. This is the opening shot for my thesis. The full version will be released soon. The hovercraft (drone machine) was modeled in Maya, textured and lit with Rende...
Orthia – Wall Blast Simulation 6 May 2010 | 01:38 pm
Click here to view the embedded video. This is another shot from my thesis – A projectile crashes into the wall leaving a gaping hole with smoke billowing outward. The brief first part of the shot w...
Title sequence tests: Pushing particles with fluids and shatterPlus 6 May 2010 | 07:59 am
Updates to this website have been long overdue. I haven’t added any new files here for a long time…a bit lazy I suppose, but on the other hand, I’ve been enormously busy with my final thesis project. ...
Orthia – Wrist POV shot 16 Apr 2010 | 01:34 pm
Click here to view the embedded video. This is a shot from my thesis – Orthia, the main character is looking through her Heads Up Display, checking vital stats and the location of a technical device....
3D Text shatter – Title Sequence Animation 7 Apr 2010 | 01:32 pm
Click here to view the embedded video. The 3d text model was fractured using the shatter plus plugin for Maya (it only works in 32-bit). Then I wrote some python to animate the pieces to fly inwards ...
