Joe Russo - 3d artist | animator » general mills http://www.joerusso3d.com Online Portfolio Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:30:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 General Mills – Box Tops For Education http://www.joerusso3d.com/2011/2/general-mills-box-tops-for-education http://www.joerusso3d.com/2011/2/general-mills-box-tops-for-education#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:55:59 +0000 Joe http://www.joerusso3d.com/?p=808 Here’s a 15 second spot we created at Pixel Farm for General Mills’ Box Tops For Education program. Tony Mills (Inferno Artist) Wrote, Designed, and Directed, with myself as the 3D Artist & Animator. If you’re a box tops contributor, this one’s for you!

And for you animation savvy people, here’s some technical notes:

The Box Tops pile was animated using nParticles in Maya and by using instanced geometry on the particle simulation for the Box Tops and the dollars. Everything else in the scene was key-framed, including the collision dollars when the items pop out of the pile.

If you show any interest in any other part of the process, send me a e-mail and I’d be more than happy to respond!

Pixel Farm Credits

Director
Tony Mills

3D Artist + Animator + Compositor
Joe Russo

Sound Designers
Jesse Marks
Ken Chastain

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Pixel Farm Credits

Designer
Deb Kirkeeide

3D Artists + Animators
Joe Russo
Rich Haesemeyer

Compositors
Eric Schulist
Rich Haesemeyer
Tom Doeden

Colorist
Oscar Oboza

Sound Designers
Jesse Marks
Ken Chastain
Zac Bates

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