Crowleyjones, L.P. - Austin, TX
This successful new product development and marketing firm has a great track record of getting innovative products to market and into a variety of sales channels including retail, direct response, and QVC/HSN. These were created in a 2 to 3 week production schedule and output to a standard broadcast quality. Production ready CAD files were available to work from, but most of the objects had to be modeled from scratch to cut down on file size and render times. I have a copy of the Sweepeze vacuum being presented on one of the TV shopping channels and will post it here when I locate it. |
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Rayovac, Inc. - Madison, WI.
Rayovac is primarily a battery company, but they also create and produce hundreds of other products that use batteries. I worked as a contractor to their innovation division on a number of projects including the one presented here. A large company, they generate many product ideas that do not ultimately make it to the store shelves. Their process to determine which ideas make the cut includes creating 2D and 3D visualizations of the product and presenting them to small focus groups for feedback. I worked in this 'pitch' phase of development. |
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Excel Stud Remover - Austin, TX.
I worked with a local video production house to update the marketing materials for an already successful product line. They were looking for an illustration of the product mechanism and a 'transitional' animation to be used to bridge video sections. Here you can see how the two animations were edited into the final video. |
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The State of Texas v Edwin Delamora
Deputy Keith Ruiz and other SWAT team members were attempting to serve a narcotics warrant to the mobile home of Edwin Delamora in the early hours of February 15th, 2001. This was another in a series of botched raids by Austin area SWAT: http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:574028 The case hinged on whether the police announced themselves as they attempted entry. The State's witnesses said they did, the defense's heard nothing. This ambitious animation was requested in response to the State commissioning a video reenactment. Two weeks before trial the State decided not to use their video, and as a result, this was abandoned. Creating something like this is difficult. You are working from fuzzy witness testimony, and crime scene photos taken after police have ripped up everything in search of drugs. I had no access to the defendant and getting a time line of character movement is tricky. I had roughed out the basic timing when the project was scrapped. |
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I started messing around with 3D in 1992 when I began working on the Newtek Video Toaster. It was a computer based video editing system that included the Lightwave 3D animation package. My focus at the time was on video production, but there was something about the software that worked like my brain. I liked the combination of being a virtual draftsman and cinematographer.
Over the years, I have devoted about 15% to 20% of my time on 3D, and that feels about right. |
My First Professional Job - 1993
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