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Witchcraft: RTFM

I completed this experimental piece over the period of three days in April 2009. I have been experimenting with Cinema 4D, and in the course of messing with various animation settings, came up with a cool morphing crystal. I built a simple scene around the crystal with an inexperienced girl magician blowing herself to pieces by activating its powers. You can see the full-size video at the project’s page on imago site, or a smaller version with a little extra, right here, after the break.

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Necklace

Procedural animation developed for the Master of IDM project. A null object creates a randomized 3D loop path, while a particle system feeds it little spheres, each identified by a text layer displaying its ID number.

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Crossword Hax

Procedural animation developed for Master of IDM. Randomized distribution of letters of alphabet on a 3D grid.

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RGB Blobs

Procedural animation developed for Master of IDM project. Six blobs (2D metaballs) traveling on the surface of the sphere, combining in the additive color mode.

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Glow Spider

Procedural animation done using Trapcode Particular and a whole bunch of custom expressions. Developed for the Master of IDM project.

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Glass Balloon

This video is a little test I did in Maya back in 2008, experimenting with softbody dynamics, inflation and deflation of nCloth and HDRI.

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Path Worm

Another little Maya test run from 2008. This time playing with spline animation, softbody deformers and incandescent lighting. I wanted to see how would a cartoon rendering of main subject look inside a global illumination environment.

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Halftone Hologram

I was playing around with turning images to halftone-screen patterns. Once I had the line pattern, it was just one step away from Star Wars – style holographic projection.

No matter how hard I try, I can’t remember where did I get the footage from and who is the woman in the video :)

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Snow Celebration

This is a test shot for a holiday piece I was planning in the Winter of 2008. It was created from a single summertime photo of Taj Mahal (original picture had well over 30 people in it), with color correction, icy water, snow and 2.5D added in After Effects.

In the end, the project did not come to life – we did a piece titled 0708 instead. You can see what’s left of Snow Celebration, below.

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Monster Pitch

These are two motion sketches from the pitch I did for monster.com end-tag back in 2007. In the end the company settled on a very simple logo fading in on black background, but I still like these two ideas.

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