Project: 2010 Pigskin Pick Em'
Client: Commissioned by Gyro
Contribution: All 3D & Compositing

A lot of blood, sweat and keyframes went into this animation for my good friends at GyroHSR. This is the intro animation for an invitation only website for their clients. Completed in 3.5 weeks - I did everything except model the stadium.





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Under The Hood
Breakdown:


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Storyboards:



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Previz:
Originally we were going to shoot a live action helmet cam running on green screen with tracking markers and camera match to get "real" motion. But after layering noise controllers with different seeds and strengths I achieved a rather believable running animation. Resulting in the test below.


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Very first test render. I used Max2AE to export lights. Optical Flares was a godsend on this project.


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Another fun part was using Rayfire to destroy all the text. Always a good time...always.


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Another View


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The whole scene was rendered at 60FPS to give me the extra frame info I needed for the slow mo. Below is essentially the final animatic.