OddBall Animation

Ruined City Flyover – First Pass

wesball — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:12:58 +0000

Working on a new RUIN shot. This is the first pass. You can see the back buildings need to be replaced. I’m working on procedurally growing plants on the buildings there. Also need to deal with the repeating building structures, but it’ll come together.

Again, this another one using Modo. I thought it might interest folks to know what you can do with an otherwise boring CG render using just a depth pass and ambient occlusion pass composited together.

City Ruins at Dusk

wesball — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:37:31 +0000

This is the first of a series of shots for our Concept:RUIN project. Check out the video in fullscreen and HD if you can. To be continued.

You can see the early test work leading up to this final image in this post.

Ruins render tests

wesball — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:41:52 +0000

This a proof of concept test I did tonight for my passion project, RUIN. It’s created with Modo using a single object (which is very crudely textured) and duplicated with replicators. Atmosphere and sky was created in compositing with After Effects. The trick here was to keep the rotation of the single building to 90º increments. And of course to vary their position and height scale. With a bit or more work on texturing and using several objects and plant foliage, it seems I could achieve a pretty good result. Posting the assets and screen shots as well for anyone interested. Also, throwing in the stereoscopic test for anyone with Magenta/Green glasses.

EIDT: And to give credit where credit is due. I didn’t model any of the assets you see here. The building geometry is from a game model on Turbo Squid. The fern is one of Modo’s preset asset downloads. And the sky image is from cgtextures! I love bashing together images using readily available resources on the internet.

Sparky!

wesball — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:59:48 +0000

Just a little character we created in modo. Testing out reflective surfaces and simple shapes.

RUIN

wesball — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:47:52 +0000

A big sci-fi adventure we’re developing. We’re searching for young, talented concept artists. So if you’re interested, get in contact with us.

Another Animated Short we’re working on

wesball — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:14:31 +0000

This is another short we’re developing. The world of kites!

New Short experiments

wesball — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:18:33 +0000

We’re starting to work on a new short. We’re trying to keep it a very simple style. It should be fun. Stay posted for more!

Visit Films Company Logo

wesball — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:36:04 +0000

We created this logo animation for Visit Films.

Speed concept… the Visit

wesball — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:51:32 +0000

Was bored one night, listening to Coast to Coast. Decided to make a quick UFO image as fast I could. This took about an hour to bash together out of assets found through a quick google search. Also posting the assets used to make the image.

Making Of: ISOH Shot 1

wesball — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:02:02 +0000

This tutorial shows a simple way to use photos and front projection mapping to create a shot in our In Search of Humans teaser animation.

Making Of: ISOH Shot 3

wesball — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:52:40 +0000

This little tutorial shows some tricks we used for creating an early shot for our In Search of Humans teaser animation.

In Search of Humans

wesball — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:46:37 +0000

In Search of Humans is a feature film we’re developing with Gran Via Productions. Check out the teaser trailer below, along with some of the early concept art.

Teaser Trailer

Concept Art

MTV’s Super Psycho Sweet 16 VFX Breakdowns

wesball — Sat, 22 May 2010 23:02:33 +0000

My Super Psycho Sweet 16 aired on MTV. We handled several of the VFX shots. You can read more about the film at http://bit.ly/440XNg

American Sleepover VFX Shot

wesball — Thu, 20 May 2010 01:04:27 +0000

We were tasked to populate an empty gymnasium with hundreds of teen girls for the indie feature “The Myth of the American Sleepover”. The film is currently screening in Cannes! Check out more info on the film at http://www.americansleepover.com/

Adobe CS5 Product Launch

wesball — Wed, 12 May 2010 01:22:57 +0000

Recently we helped Adobe with their new CS5 creative suite product launch. We created about 16 videos demonstrating the new interface and functionality of the apps. We used beta versions of the CS5 suite to do the work.

You can see more about the new Adobe CS5 suite HERE.

Enjoy!

Disney’s Enchanted Tales

wesball — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:15:57 +0000

We created this opening sequence for the DVD of Disney’s Enchanted Tales. The shot through the hallway used a Technocrane inside a forced perspective set. We tracked the motion in pfTrack and the pixie dust was animated and rendered in Lightwave.

Dali Documentary Title Animations

wesball — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:54:01 +0000

These are some of the animations we created for a documentary on Dali and his work with Disney on Destino. Fun stuff.

Spike TV’s 1000 Ways to Die

wesball — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:17:05 +0000

We helped out on season two of the popular show on Spike TV. Here are a few of the visualizations we created. Enjoy!

Vainglorious Pictures Logo Opener

wesball — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:56:33 +0000

We created this opening logo in CG for Vainglorious Pictures. This one was a short turn around for us. It’s all CG, modeled, lit, and rendered inside of Lightwave.

Linksys Back to School Promo

wesball — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:36:23 +0000

We worked with Linksys/Cisco to create several videos for one of their promotional campaigns.

A Work in Progress

wesball — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:27:12 +0000

Combining both worlds of traditional live-action and CG, this short film follows the vivid imagination of a lonely girl as she searches for a friend. A Work in Progress received a Student Academy Award in the Animation Category.

Ponzimation

wesball — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:33:54 +0000

We created this animation for the Ocean’s 13 DVD. Mostly created inside After Effects, other stuff was done in Lightwave. We’ve recently converted select shots into 3D (stereo) for internal testing.

Digital Paint and Roto Reel

wesball — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:22:53 +0000

A reel demonstrating some of our paint work.

Steve Rushton G-Force Music Video

wesball — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:57:04 +0000

This was a big greenscreen shoot on the RED for Steve Rushton’s G-Force music video. It aired on the Disney Channel to promote the movie. We created all the previz, designed the digital sets, and composited the shots at 2K.

High School Musical 3 TV Spot

justin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:07:48 +0000

A ‘Countdown’ Disney Channel campaign for HSM3. We did 10 versions, plus international.

Bringing Ideas to Life Title

wesball — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:37:57 +0000

This title was created for a small project about ideas and inspiration in storytelling. After Effects was used for this one.

TLC’s Restorer Guy

wesball — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:38:34 +0000

We created all the renovation visualizations for TLC’s Restorer Guy. Here’s a few of the shots created in Luxology’s Modo and Newtek’s Lightwave. We also used After Effects and Nuke for compositing.

Making Of Pinocchio

wesball — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:25:44 +0000

This was an animated logo we created for the Bluray release of Disney’s Pinocchio. Created in Lightwave.

Tale of Despereaux Bluray Game

wesball — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:19:16 +0000

For the Bluray release of The Tale of Despereaux, we were tasked with creating original CG animation for one of the featured on-disc games. Most of the animation and rendering was done in Luxology’s Modo. After Effects was also used for the king’s reaction animation.

Playtone: Big Love

wesball — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:15:25 +0000

Another flavor of Playtone’s logo. This one is for HBO’s Big Love series.