Posts Tagged ‘Animation’
POST-PERFECT MATCH:: MEDICAL ANIMATIONS ::
or: Shaken Baby Gets HELP; Parents get EDUCATION with Postage, Inc.
As our regular readers can see, we’ve finally gotten around to posting some of the long running projects we’ve been up to. The hush-hush ones which are now no longer hush-hush. One of these projects is something we are immensely proud to take part in. The Pennsylvania Shaken Baby Awareness and Prevention Program at Penn State Hershey Medical Center / Children’s Hospital is a group who takes on the important tasks of research and prevention when it comes to Shaken Baby Syndrome. As one of their tasks is to regularly produce a video that educates parents on SBS. This 2011/2012 update is very relevant and includes an animation that we produced here at Postage. It was collaboratively created between Animation/CGI Artist Riley Hearn and Principal/Compositor Allen Clements. We’d like to share it with you.
Tags: 2d, 3d, Animation, animations, CGI, demonstration, demonstrative, doctor, hershey medical center, Hospital, Illustrated, illustrative, Medical, nurse, nurses, Penn State, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Post Production, Production, SBS, Shaken Baby Syndrome, traditional
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DEBUT OF THE NSVRC PSA: “The Weed” ::
It’s with great pleasure that we announce the internet release by our client, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, of the 30 second PSA entitled “The Weed.” This PSA should be soon airing over rural areas of the United States tagged with information about essential local centers for information on sexual violence.
Tags: Animation, Broadcast, Cable, CGI, Commercial, Growing Plants, Internet Video, National Ad, Non-Profit, NSVRC, PSA, Public Service Announcement, r3d, RED ONE, Sexual Violence, Terrestrial, Visual effects, Weeds
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Screen Shot Friday 111014 ::
Courtland is animating a young lad for a True Value Hardware Spot
Concept to rigging for the same spot.
And Allen is doing some cool title stuff for LCBC in Manheim.
Tags: 3d, Animation, Boy, CGI, Dust, Flash, Hardware, LCBC, Light Effects, Particle Effects, Puppy, Retail, Rigging, Style, Television Commercial, Timeless, True Value
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Screen Shot Friday 110909 ::
Welcome to a huge Screen Shot Friday which hopefully makes up for our missed SSF series in the last few BUSY weeks. Thanks for visiting and thanks for your patience. Here’s some amazing jobs we’ve had the fortune of helping to produce or producing.
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- Courtland is hard at work on the hilarious cutscenes for an upcoming mobile app that should find it’s way into hands across the nation before election day.
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- More 3D texturing from our upcoming second release of the Pinball Massacre series.
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- Though this cool illustrated treatment that might find it’s way to the cutting room floor, we thought it should have a light life in SSF.
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- I love a gigantic timeline. This one was for a project with Ironbound Films.
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- Rigging a blackhawk helicopter for the reflection in a window of a Volkswagen spot.
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- Here’s a test composite for the upcoming PSA for NSVRC. A weed grows from under the porch.
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- We couldn’t exactly film this government building for the upcoming NSVRC PSA… so we made it from scratch. :)
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- Though it’s not a computer monitor/screen per-se, it was a fantastic shoot with amazing talent and crew. Deserves some pre-play.
Tags: 3d, Advanced Compositing, After Effects CS5.5, Animation, Center, CGI, Commercial, compositing, maya, Mental Ray, Modeling, National, Non-Profit, Post Production, Production, PSA, r3d, Resource, Rigging, Sexual, Television, Violence, Visual effects, Xfrog
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PHOTOGRAPHING THE UN-LOVED ::
Today we had a photo-session at the always exciting 911 Photographics in the talented hands of Steve Stoltzfus. Kelly Dantinne of Dantinne Design and Joe and I brought in specimens from all over to photograph leaves (for CGI growing vines.) and logo elements for an upcoming national PSA we’re working on.
Steve is the sole proprietor of 911 Photographics which features a studio that is basically 100% softbox where he shoots cars, humans, and apparently weeds for us. It’s a unique Lancaster, PA secret that we have such an amazing photo studio right here. As we were arriving, Steve’s business partner Dan Gillespie of Colorgeek had just finished shooting his hot rod. Steve stepped out in an all-white suit. (to minimize reflections)
Steve prepares the studio, Joe ready's his hand, and Kelly sorts through our wide variety of Pennsylvania-native weeds.
It was interesting photographing these typically undesirable plants. They ended up getting the spotlight today. For anyone reading this, we’ll send a special prize to whoever identifies the most weeds in the pictures. Joe was our hand model as we photographed him holding several weeds into the air as if he just tore them from the ground. During the shoot we had to mist the weeds with water to keep them from wilting. (More TLC for the ugly weeds.) We even created our own frankenstein weeds with the help of superglue, sewing pins, paperclips, floral wire and more.
When we were done we took our pal Steve to a very fun lunch at the American Bar & Grill right next door. We will be taking the individual leaves you see in the blog post header and mapping them to a growth function to actually produce a growing plant… stem, leaves, and all. This will help give it a photo-real look. We made sure to photograph plenty of leaves so we can vary them on the stalk.
Tomorrow:: Location Scouting.
Tags: Animation, Autodesk, Brand, Branding, CGI, dslr, Flash, Leaves, Lighting, luxology, maya, modo, National Commercial, Nikon, Photo, Photo-Shoot, Photography, Plants, PSA, Realistic, Softbox, Studio, VFX, Visual effects, Weed, Weeds, Xfrog
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