So some of you know and some of you may not know but after my last post in January I started freelancing for ReelFX Creative Studios. This was a fantastic gig. I got to work from home on some really cool commercials featuring DreamWorks' Kung Fu Panda. My supervisor there was Dave Vallone, some of you may know him from Animation Mentor. Dave was a fantastic sup and made the difficult task of, organizing notes from several different outside sources and then delivering them simply and clearly to a team of outside animators, run amazingly smooth. I don't know how he did it. So here are the commercials I worked on for ReelFX:(You can click on the image to see the video)


The first project I did with ReelFx was for the 2008 Academy Awards. Barry Bee from Bee Movie was announcing the winner for Best Animated short. I've posted the entire segment here. The parts that I animated are(sorry I'll try to cut it up later):
The shot were Barry introduces his "Earlier work"
"And the Oscar goes too..." This was a lot of fun because we didn't know the winner so I had to hide his mouth behind the card and make a loop that could be for any one of the names.
I also did the little clap cycle at the end. The Academy was not sure how long they would need to see him clapping.


The next ad I did was for Hubba Bubba. This was great because not only was this my first chance to animate Po but Aardman Animation was responsible for the stop motion meerkat in the foreground. I was given reference of Jason Reisig's shots of Po punching the dummy as to the feel that they wanted. I love those shots! I'm really happy with the hit that Po takes as it knocks him off screen. I animated Po coming on screen in the beginning up until he knocks himself off. The rest was done by another animator at ReelFX.


This ad is for Samsung. It only aired in Korea I believe and it was part of a series of Olympic themed KFP ads to air around the 2008 Olympics. My part starts about half way in. It's the high shot looking down at Po lifting the weights and I animated the rest of the ad to the end except for a cut in shot of Po's ripped pants.




This ad was for Hewlet-Packard. It is part of their "Hands" ad campaign. This shot went through a lot of changes but in the end I think it looks great and I had a lot of fun working on it. My shot is from the beginning to Po flipping the pages in the book. And by the way a lot of that cloth animation in the beginning was done by hand....ha!