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Apparently, the HBO special John Adams has swept up 8 creative emmys’ including an Emmy for best visual effects.  Congratulations to CAFE FX and all the talented artists I had the pleasure of working with on that show.  Having been part of this achievement is a great honor for me.

if you are interested to know more, you can read here and know what I know as of now by clicking

here..

On a more personal note, I have updated my 3d stills gallery with some photos from productions that I have worked on.  If you are so inclined, feel free to take a look over to the galleries and check out

the new stuff.

Lately i’ve been working at a studio called Prologue, run by Kyle Cooper, and during that time, I had a chance to work on a neat little spot for Cartoon Network.

Apeman Cryptid

So I just finished up working on Speed Racer,  and in the process, I got an update to my reel.  Not a complete overhaul, but new work is always good to replace the old…

View new DemoReel now!

So Since I’ve moved out to California from Minnesota, I’ve worked on a few projects now, and have been attempting to make my foray into the world of Visual Effects for feature films. So far it’s been working out pretty well, Below are three promo’s for the films I’ve been working on in chronological order. The first is technically a miniseries for HBO and won’t be shown in the cinemas, but it’s my foray into film work, so I’m pretty much considering it a film credit on my resume. That being said, here’s the list. Each is followed by it’s respective trailer ala YouTube.

John Adams: 

Semi Pro: 

Speed Racer: 

Well, with another move, this time from Santa Maria to L.A., and a new job, I felt like it was time to update the look of my website again.  I felt like going for a bit cleaner look, less links and calendars, and more portfolio.  I got to say, it’s refreshing to come home to a new page.  Hope you like it too.

So this commercial is not necessarily a recent project, it was finished about four or five months ago, It’s due to bureaucratic reasons that it hasn’t been posted until now. So enjoy the show, it’s fast and short. If you’re curious what I did, then i’ll tell you, matchmoving, modelling, texturing, and lighting, with a light bit of comp work.

A very short, simple to the point tutorial on how to project a texture reference directly on your sculpt in Zbrush 3. Enjoy!

You can download the tutorial here:

ZbrushTexture Projection Tutorial

I must admit, that after about 15 minutes, I had fallen in love with this upgrade.  This is what an upgrade should be… They didn’t do any major overhaul to anything that didn’t work, and they took features from other sculpting programs and threw them in to the update.  Totally awesome.  After an hour or so, this is what I had…

So recently I got into learning this program called Zbrush. There are some similar ones out there, but I figured I’d learn how to use the most complicated, and convoluted one. It was actually pretty cool. Here’s my first little doodle… a bit more realised.

So upon someone’s request, I made a quick, intro to Boujou tutorial.  It isn’t anything too exiting at this point, more of a primer to 3d tracking if anything.  I plan on doing a more in depth tutorial as soon as I get some footage that is appropriate for a tutorial.  So basically I need to shoot some really bad footage. :C)  If you’ve ever opened up Boujou and successfully used it, then feel free to check back when I have the more advanced tutorial posted.  Click on the image for the 188mb rar.  The tutorial runs roughly a half hour that is non-refundable.