Kitchen Scene 

Another Lighting and rendering challenge I started......this is work in progress. My tools were the same Maya, mental ray and After Effects. I experimented a little with caustics and FG.
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Fruti Bowl

This is a lighting and rendering piece that I recently did. This is part of the CG Talk mini challenges. The models were created by Dan Wade for the challenge. The textures were all created procedurally using Maya and rendered using mental ray. I composited it in After Effects. Click on the image to view a high resolution version.

Logo Animation

This is an animation that I made for one of my classmates for his thesis. The screen looked a little empty so I put my logo in there. Click on the image to view the animation.

Jabberwocky

Thesis Project -  Jabberwocky is a fictional movie trailer. Based on Lewis Carrol's poem "Jabberwocky". Its about a boy who is motivated by the need to know the truth about his father. he ventures on an epic quest into a forest to slay a monster. This was a joint thesis, the first of its kind at NYU CADA. My partner Adrian was responsible for the character models and rigging. My responsibility was the environment, fog and mist effects and the lighting and rendering of the piece. The animation was blocked out by me with standin characters, but was finished (splined) by a studio in India. Click on the image below to view the quicktime.

Dominoes

This is my last assignment for my technical Direction class. The idea was to create large CG dominoes and place them in a pre-shot environment. The task was to make the dominoes look as realistic as possible. Click on the image to view the quicktime.


                
                       

MacMeter

The third assignment for my TD class. The goal was to marry live action to a CG macmeter. We were given the mac and a meter, we had to merge the two so that they look like one piece and then rotoscope the live action and composite them. This was a joint project and my partner Junie did all the compositing and the rotoscoping using Combustion and After Effects. The meter, textures and lighting were done by me using Maya. The final composite was done using After Effects. Click on the image to view the quicktime.

                                
                         

Stabilize

For our second assignment, we were given footage taken on a hand-held and the task was to stabilize it and place a pair of sunglasses on the woman. This was really quite a task, stabilizing and then tracking the woman's face was quite difficult since the footage was really poor quality. I used Fusion to stabilize the footage and then track it which worked pretty well. For the sunglasses i found an image I liked and distorted it in Photoshop to match the perspective I wanted. Click on the image to view the quicktime.

                        

7th Empire

Our first assignment for TD was a choice between a commercial for Band Aid and a logo animation for a friend of our professor. I chose to do the Logo. The logo was for an Indian director, Shalini Kantayya, whose company is called 7th Empire media. The entire logo animation was developed and executed by me around the logo of her company. The project was completely executed in Maya using Photoshop for textures and After Effects for the final composite. Click on the image to view the quicktime.


                 

Matte Painting

I always thought it purely had to do with actual painting but of course with the advancement in CG why create a 2D matte when you can create a 3D matte. So here is my final for my Matte painting class. I modeled the basic structure and used camera projections to texture it. The temple is the Golden Temple that I had built last semester for my Maya 2 class final. The fog was created using Maya fluids, and the composite was done using After Effects. Just click on the image link to view the movie.

Lighting and Rendering

So here is my latest work, it was a lighting and rendering assignment. The models used here are all stock models, but the texturing, lighting and rendering was all done by me using photoshop. This was an amazing class, procedural textures rock!!! Just click on the image link to view the movie.

CADA 2007

This next peice is a motions graphics piece I did using After Effects for CADA.
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