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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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We wrapped up production for The History Channel’s MonsterQuest TV series recently at Pixel Farm, creating cg elements for 9 episodes over a course of 5 months, starting back in October 2009. It was around 30 seconds – 1 minute of animation per episode, depending on the content of the show.

This particular piece is called The Creature Holodeck which plays early in the show, describing the creature through V.O. and motion.

Pixel Farm Credits

3D Artist + Animator + Compositor
Joe Russo

Another two week illustration for the Minneapolis Art Community. The topic was an 8-bit re-design of a character. I chose Scott O’Connor from Kabuki Quantum Fighter, a Nintendo game.

Not sure if I correctly placed the Japanese text, or if it’s even written correctly. It should read the title of the game on the right, and my name on the left.

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An animation inspired by all things that are action and little story. I focused mostly on color, composition, and timing rather than character development. The music is from Perfect Dark by artist Grant Kirkhope.