Category: Playback

Monarch

I got to work on Fox television’s “Monarch” TV series about a family of country music legends as secrets and drama unfolds. Although regrettably cancelled, it featured some fantastic original songs and covers interspersed throughout, performed by the cast of talented musicians and singers, including Susan Sarandon and Trace Adkins, Anna Friel and others. There were lots of interesting things to work on especially including lots of renderings and previz to help sell the stage setups and motion graphics.

 

 

 


Instant Family, P-Valley, Outsider

A year ago I had the pleasure of working with some talented Graphic designers on a few side-projects for various networks. Although it wasn’t for very long in each instance, I had a blast and got to make some interesting work! I’ve included a bunch of portfolio items from each below!


Irresisitble Film Graphics

Trying something different here. I thought I’d just include a smattering of graphics from the project to show the breadth of the project, rather than organizing by type of item. The Film Irresistible was great fun to work on and the script was very funny. I was very proud of my work on it and I was glad to meet Jon Stewart who was essentially the news, back when I was in college.


Grim Reaper Lockout screen

In Macgyver S04E09 a government mainframe gets infiltrated by a mysterious hacker who’s only calling card is a sinister grim reaper figure wagging its finger. They wanted the artwork to look like an old NES game so I looked up the classic NES color palette and used that for the animation. I also was careful to use the NES’ real screen resolution to lend a little extra authenticity

 

Here’s the final version with the animation. Note each frame of the hand wagging actually had to be custom made to as the resolution was too low to simply rotate the hand in photoshop.

Here’s an early version where it was a skull, which they later changed to a plague mask to make it more interesting and unique:

 

Here’s how it appeared in the episode. Spooky!


Hellfire Club Playback Screens and Logo

In Sleepy Hollow Season 2 we had a fictional demonic medical cult that was developing ways to birth Moloch into the human realm via a supernatural pregnancy. We had some logos interesting fictional computer screens to make it look like some evil stuff was going on.



Sleepy Security Camera Footage

In Sleepy Hollow Season 2, the Script called for fictional FBI security software that would analyze a piece of security and reconstruct their face. I put this together in after effects, and it was featured pretty heavily .


Tower Hand Scanner

To get into the Tower in revolution the characters had to scan their hand into some bio-metric security device. I made the screens to specifications and had them playback live on two iPads which were fit into a special effects device.  Both screens had to trigger when the actor laid his/her hands on the device so it was controlled from off-screen via a wireless keyboard in Bluetooth mode.  When the actor touched the right screen the animation played automatically and the left screen was triggered manually to match the action on the right.

Here’s a video of what the animation looked like in real time:


Fictional Lab Computers

Here’s a series of animated  computer screens I did for Revolution. most were created in flash, the rest in After Effects. and were designed to animate along with the actor based on their keyboard input. Some were interactive and others were just animations and videos. One of these had a fun “glitch” effects that I got to design. Turned out very cool.