Showreel '08

Smart Vent tvc

After helping my friends at Waxeye on a string of corporate videos, I had the chance to work with them again on a TVC for a home ventilation system called Smart Vent. Most of the elements were shot as separate plates and I came on board to help them put everything together in After Effects. I worked on the first ten seconds and it was a really fun experience.

The Checks - Ballroom Baby

Through my friends at The Darkroom, I got this job helping director Ben Rood on a few shots on his video for kiwi band The Checks. It was a fairly simple and straightforward job, tracking the eyes of the animals in the footage Ben has shot and putting on cut out parts of the band's faces. And the song is absolutly terrific too!

Dictaphone Blues - You Put it in Me

Director Jensen Downes asked me to come up with some motion graphics for this music video for the New Zealand based band Dictaphone Blues. I already worked with them on the final shot of a previous music video for another kiwi band, The Gasoline Cowboys. It was a shot inspired by the Planet of the Apes and can be seen in my showreel. This time, I had way more graphic design to produce, inspired by another 1968 sci-fi film, the "proverbial good science-fiction movie", 2001: A Space Odyssey. More than 40 years ago, even the colorful sequence at the end was considered groundbreaking. With today's techniques, it's muche easier to create. Us graphic designers have it too easy.

Night Lights with Telecom

I was called in at The Darkroom to help them on live projection project they had for the rebranding of Telecom, a New Zealand telecom company. I worked on the growing tree sequence. It's very basic After Effects animation, but being able to watch work I've worked on being projected on this big beautiful building downtown Auckland was a real treat. I came down with my old DV camera to get as many angle as possible (the animation was on a loop from 8.30pm until midnight for 5 nights) and I edited them together.

Paper Music

This video is an example for a tutorial I made in order to recreate something similar to 'My Paper Mind' by Javan Ivey in After Effects rather than in stop-motion. So I created tihis 30 seconds promo for my friend Khoral whom I regularly work with.
Update: Check out Paper Music Mark II, now with a real stop motion look.



Update 2: The tutorial has made its way up to the AETuts website. Check it out if you want to learn cool techniques with After Effects.

The Traveller's Empire

A short film currently in the writing/design process. I hope to be able to shoot it on RED in the next 6 month. It'll be mainly a green screen shoot with lots graphic design. I'll also launch two websites for promotional purposes: the film's website thetravellersempire.com and a (hopefully) viral website wemakespaceasmallerplace.com. I'll keep posting images and sketches here.

Diesel Testlab

For my short return to Zoomslide I had to create, composite and animate a Minority Report-like computer interface. The video was shot in HD by Mark Summerville who previously directed the second Misfits of Science music video I worked on.
It was probably the coolest job I ever worked on. Just imagining everything that could happen with this virtual computer was really fun. Too bad I don't have the complete video to showcase. Update: now with video! Although it's not the whole thing, here you have 2 of the four experiments of the promo Just click on the first image to see the video. I worked on this one with Hitesh Chheda who was supervising the post production and had all the pressure and Aly Crone, whom I worked with on the Misfits jobs as well.

The Interview

A short film shot at Zoomslide with Carla Brereton and Blake Henshaw.

Rainbows in Motion

A labour of love I did for no money and during spare time. The video tells the story of how light and color overcome the world of darkness and black and white. Until eventually burning it up. Features the music of my good friend Khoral.

The film is featured in the issue 164 of Computer Arts released on July 3 2009.

Misfits of Science - Can't Leave You Alone

Directed by Mark Summerville. Role: Editor/Designer/Animator

L'Empire suédé contre-attaque

This film was made as part of an online contest revolving around Michel Gondry's film 'Be Kind, Rewind'.

MTV - Sobe Ident & Donut

Pure Rush Around the World

Misfits of Science - Mama I'm a Misfit

Co-directed with Blake Henshaw.

Khoral - Special Attraction

The Mouth Buster

Co-directed with Christophe Chenallet

Khoral - Roadmap for the Bugs

Bodies at Work

Khoral - Life Among the Spiders

Co-directed with Khoral