OSMO Auckland CBD Tour

Needed some practice using DJI's Osmo before a shoot so I decided to take it for a walk around Auckland's CBD. Footage shot and edited in 4k at 25fp, exported in HD. Music - Lemaitre - Cut To Black (Instrumental)

Needed some practice using DJI's Osmo before a shoot so I decided to take it for a walk around Auckland's CBD. Footage shot and edited in 4k at 25fp, exported in HD.

Music - Lemaitre - Cut To Black (Instrumental)

Noteworthy

Some creative pieces that I've come across the past few months that are, well, noteworthy.

Deluxe's Method Studios was tapped by production company RSA to concept and create this year’s AICP Sponsor Reel. The AICP awards celebrate global creativity within commercial production. The Method team wanted to create an entertaining piece of design that encapsulates the innovative and prolific nature of this industry. Our aim was to showcase the AICP sponsors as various dancing avatars, which playfully reference the visual effects used throughout production. Motion capture, procedural animation and dynamic simulations combine to create a milieu of iconic pop dance moves that become an explosion of colorful fur, feathers, particles and more. CREDITS Client: AICP/RSA Project: 2016 AICP Sponsor Reel Concept, Design & Direction: Method Design Director: Rupert Burton Creative Director: Jon Noorlander Art Director: Johnny Likens Production: Method Studios NY Producer: Adrienne Mitchell VFX: Method Studios Houdini FX Artist: Tomas Slancik Houdini FX Artist: Vraja Parra Rigger: Ohad Bracha Motion Capture: House of Moves Motion Capture Supervision: Rupert Burton, Shane Griffin Music: Major Lazer - Light It Up (Remix) http://design.methodstudios.com

Agency: Wieden + Kennedy Portland Director: The Daniels Director of Photography: Larkin Sieple Art Director: Susan Land Copywriter: Edward Harrison Production Company: Prettybird Editor: Angus Wall Editorial Company: Rock Paper Scissors Country: United States Released: August 2016

DixonBaxi changes the game for Premier League DixonBaxi have designed and created a radical new TV experience for the world’s most watched football league. Changing the game for over 2 billion fans around the world. Football will never be the same. Show titles, in-match graphics, augmented-reality, touch-screen, studio graphics, all united by a unique ‘Field of Play’ motion behaviour and an epic, official Premier League soundtrack.

3D Printed Dancer and a Soup Ad...

Two pieces of work that are pretty darn impressive.

First up, The Mill's work for The Chemical Brothers Wide Open video. It's just amazing.

The Chemical Brothers - Wide Open feat. Beck Director: Dom & Nic http://www.domandnic.com Producer: John Madsen Choreographer: Wayne McGregor Dancer: Sonoya Mizuno Taken from the new album 'Born In The Echoes' out now.

Next up, is a miso soup ad from Japan. I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that a soup ad exists that is better then anything in my portfolio. Any way, it's epic so enjoy.

世界初のかわいい味噌汁（原宿味）とは マルコメと「KAWAII」を世界に発信するアソビシステムが コラボして開発した、これまでにない新しい味噌汁です。 「カワイイ！」と呼びかけると、ひとはカワイクなると言われます。 では「カワイイ！」と呼びかけると、味噌もカワイくなるのか？ 東京・ロンドン・パリでたくさんの方に味噌にむかって 「カワイイ！」と叫んでもらいました。その数、２０２３回。 つまり、2023 Kawaii！ その集めた声を、長野工場の味噌にも聴かせて、商品化。 「味噌」も「具」もカワイイ味噌汁です。 ＊＊＊ 彼は、言った。かわいくなったね、と。 でも、ママは、言った。昔はかわいかったのにと。 それは私に向けられた曖昧な言葉。「かわいい」、の定義をおしえて He told me I got "kawaii" (pretty) . But my mom said I used to be so "kawaii" (cute). They used the same vague word, "kawaii". What does it mean? かわいいとは幼くて、無垢で、純粋なもの。 清少納言は、枕草子にそう書いた。 Kawaii is young, innocent, and pure.

Project Profile - 2015/2016 America's Cup Wolrd Series Titles

A comparison of an early animatic vs final delivery for the world feed titles for the 2015- 2016 America's Cup World Series. The animatic was created in Cinema 4D with with an edit built in After Effects. The animatic went through many revisions to adjust for things such as music changes as well as animated characters which had an effect on timing and composition. The project involved elements created in Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya. Alembic and FBX files were used to export camera and boat animations out of Cinema and into Houdini to create the water sims and Maya for character animation, texturing and lighting. The first two shots came out of Cinema as the boat forming was created with a PolyFX modifier. The Cup was also rendered out of Cinema. Everything else was rendered out of Maya. Everything was then composited in After Effects.

A comparison of an early animatic vs final delivery for the world feed titles for the 2015 - 2016 America's Cup World Series.

The animatic was created in Cinema 4D with the shots edited in After Effects. The animatic went through many revisions to adjust for things such as music changes as well as animated characters which had an effect on timing and composition.

Style frames created for the initial pitch process, as well as being a bit of RnD early on, served as the starting point for the animatic. I built my scenes to be animation ready.

The project involved elements created in Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya. Alembic and FBX files were used to export camera and boat animations out of Cinema and into Houdini to create the water sims and Maya for character animation, texturing and lighting. The first two shots came out of Cinema as the boat forming was created with a PolyFX modifier. The Cup was also rendered out of Cinema. Everything else was rendered out of Maya. Everything was then composited in After Effects. You can watch the final results below.

The Louis Vuitton America’s Cup has kicked off with it’s first World Series race in Portsmouth and Brandspank is right in the middle of it. In January we won a pitch to create the opening titles and on-screen look for the world feed broadcast of both the World Series and the Finals. After obtaining sign off on concept and storyboard from Larry Ellison and Russell Coutts Brandspank set about creating the opening sequence along with all graphic design and production involved in the on-air look for information graphics seen during live coverage. The final sequence aims to deliver on the brief of conveying the speed, technology and athleticism that makes America’s Cup racing such great viewing.

Drive Colour Pallete

​I came across an interesting post on Reddit regarding the film Drive's colour palette. I can't find the Reddit post but I did save the link to the Imgur gallery created by user caulkmeat.  Check out the gallery he setup with a keen observation of the orange and blue colour palette used throughout the film. This goes beyond colour grading but shows the effort made to weave a visual theme throughout the film. My best guess is that this is all based on the look of traffic at night. It's pretty interesting an makes a great film even better.