Dragon candies:

Excel critters yet again:

Baygon: [a.k.a. RAID]

Enjoy! (Best appreciated in HD.)

Oh and check out the art of this concept artist that worked on it.

This one involved geometry tracking (PFTrack) for full head replacement. FaceRobot was used in production for the first time. The original plan was to use the automatic lipsyncing feature (introduced in Soft 2011) to save us time. It did work, but the client wanted 1:1 lip performance with what the actor did so in the end we didn’t use much of the automatic lipsync. — See for yourself how close the final is to the source footage here. Hats off to the animators.
 

I rigged the popcorn/kernel guy and helped set up the rigidbody simulation of the M&M’s pouring at the end. — Also wrote a little Python script to do a fair randomization of all 6 colours. You’d run it after the sim was happy to make sure the colours were random but in equal amounts.
 

I did the ICE instances setup for the lights and the rig of the lumpy bottle at the end. — By the way, the environment is 100% CG. There was a ton of rotoscoping done to make it work. There’s something like 60 shots, almost all shot against blackness (because if it were green/blue-screen it would have shown up in the reflections.)
 

Hope you likey.

Best enjoyed in fullscreen HD:

I’m looking for a position around Toronto and also available for freelancing.

Click here for my resume and if you’d like a 1080p quicktime download this link.

Oh, and it features a brand new Excel critter, Garlic!

ps: Check out Donut when he goes into the x-ray machine.

The above are a continuation of a series of two previous commercials I also did the rigging for. Since they weren’t posted on the blog before, might as well show you now:

(The top of the CG broccoli is done with ICE instances.)

All the 3D made with Autodesk Softimage. Compositing in Autodesk Inferno.

I was responsible for creating the ICE compound to position phone instances on a curve and simulate the domino effect.

At the moment ICE rigidbodies do not do “actual shape” collisions, but bounding box collisions turned out to be quite practical for this use scenario as real phones are too curved to stand upright without falling anyway.