Paper

Jessie Amadio (Lead Compositor)
Brian Burke (Lead FX TD) Chad Porche (CG Generalist)

Software: Houdini, Nuke, PFTrack, Mantra, Photoshop
Production: 8 Weeks (2009)

Corrected lens distortion and solved 3D cameras in PFTrack.
Tornado vortex R&D using Houdini particles. Rigged and animated 3D plants.
Lit paper with RGB lighting and pulled bluescreen key.
Composited 3D elements onto HD footage in six of eleven shots.

Chair

Jessie Amadio (All) Jacob Fradkin (Animator)

Software: Houdini, Mantra (PBR), Nuke
Production: 2 Weeks (2010)

Procedurally modeled chair in Houdini.
Rigged chair in Houdini with Inverse Kinematics.
Created Digital Asset for animator for easily accessible controls.
Created shaders using VOPs. Created HDRI light prob, lit, and rendered in PBR.
Multipass compositing in Nuke.

Dangle

Jessie Amadio (All)

Software: Nuke, Photoshop
Production: 4 Weeks (2009)

Rotoscoped articulated matte shape. Stiched photos for projection onto 3D geometry within Nuke.
Integrated video footage of cars and removed logo from t-shirt.
Warp deformed lamp for secondary motion.

Meter

Jessie Amadio (All)

Software: Maya, Nuke, Photoshop
Production: 2 Weeks (2009)

Painted and extended still plate in Photoshop.
Added camera move to still plate using image based modeling and projection.
Created stream of quarters using Maya nParticles.
Integrated 3D elements into final plate.

Paint

Jessie Amadio (All)

Software: Houdini, Mantra (PBR), Nuke, Photoshop
Production: 4 Weeks (2010)

Created shaders for all models using VOPs.
Created HDRI lightprobe, lit, and rendered in PBR.
Multipass compositing in Nuke. Added camera move via projection.

Franz

Dan Bodenstein (FX TD) Corinne DeOrsday (FX Artist & Lighter)
Jessie Amadio (Environment & Compositing Lead) Brett Angellilis (FX Artist)

Software: Houdini, Nuke, Photoshop
Production: 10 Weeks (2009)

Compostited CG elements and lumakeyed footage of hands.
Led environment creation and assisting with lighting.
Animated fruit and glass shattering using tools set up by the FX Artists.

Blackberry Tour

3am Design, Toronto, ON.
Client: RIM

Software: Maya

Lit device in Mental Ray and adjusted material parameters for best look.
Animated camera movement and managed the rendering of 3D elements.