Barker_Demo Reel 2010
Posted in: Demo Reels!Hi my name is Sebastian Barker. And this is my Demo Reel for 2010.
Any feedback is always welcome.
Enjoy and Thanks for watching
Hi my name is Sebastian Barker. And this is my Demo Reel for 2010.
Any feedback is always welcome.
Enjoy and Thanks for watching
What do you guys think it is? Seems like it could be about workflow. Especially considering who the quotes are from. Peter M and Offhollywood of them are very close with Red too.
“Our whole team came together for this one,” noted Click 3X owner Peter Corbett. “As we establish Click as a full-service digital studio capable of projects of any size, it’s important that we continue to work on major feature films, so we were thrilled when Agnieszka approached us to bring her terrifying and captivating visions to life.”
Click 3X’s VFX play an integral role in the film, composing important components of many grotesque and surreal scenes. Anna (played by Ricci), looks in the mirror in one scene to find herself emaciated and lifeless, a transformation wrought by Szumski. In another sequence, the CG team built, animated and lit massive tree roots that emerge from the ground to capture Anna. The same group created animated maggots that fill her mouth as the roots swallow her.
In one particularly impressive scene in which Anna removes her own heart from her split-open chest, Szumski showcases his ability to work in both the live-action and VFX realms.
Szumski directed the live-action shoot and spent hours of compositing in Flame to create blood elements on the starlet’s nude body. The Click 3X team also created an elaborate design for the open chest.
In a show of Click’s impressive range, the studio also created entire landscapes. One twisted point in the film finds Anna flung into Limbo, an alternate reality created entirely by Szumski and the CG team.
Limbo is an amazing, otherworldly environment that conveys the sensation of being trapped between life and death, with surroundings that alternately appear to be dead or alive.
“After.Life was a blast to shoot,” stated Szumski. “Everyone stepped up to make this one happen, from Anthony’s CG team to Steve’s creative input to the cooperation of the director on every scene. I’m happy to be contributing to full-length feature work and hope to take more on in the very near future.”
About Click 3X:
New York-based Click 3X produces cutting-edge visual solutions for commercials, feature films, television, music videos, and broadcast clients around the globe. Founded in 1993, Click 3X has become one of the preeminent providers of innovative media content, housed in an environment led by artists, yet supported by one of the most technologically advanced digital studios in the industry.
With award-winning design, powerful visual effects, and a visionary animation team, Click 3X has worked on array of diverse highly-recognizable projects, including a series of films from academy-award winning directors like Jonathan Demme and Davis Guggenheim, a recent multimedia package for eight HD Time Warner spots, My Home 2.0, a five episode reality TV series for Verizon Fios, and a long line of recent commercials for major brands such as Sharp, Ford, and Goodyear.
CREDITS
Prod Company: Plum Productions
Director: Agnieszka Wojtowicz Vosloo
Editor: Niven Howie
Assistant Editor: Benjamin Howdeshell
Post Production Supervisor: Jonathan Ferrantelli
VFX Co: Click 3X
Head of VFX/ Creative Director: Mark Szumski
Head of CGI: Anthony Filipakis
Creative Director: Steve Tozzi
Executive Producer: Jason Mayo
Producer: Carson Hood
Head of Production: Jared Yeater
VFX Artist(s): Yoshiko Hirata, Jaime Aguirre, Peter Amante, Amanda Amalfi, John Budion
CGI Animator(s): Rob Dollase, Anderson Ko
CGI Lighting: Sung Kim
CGI Modeling & Rigging: Reeves Blakeslee
CGI Modeling & Texturing: Paul Liaw
CGI Animating: Susan Taffe
CGI Lighting: Grace Kim, Rafael Castelblanco
CGI Artist: Jongmoon Woo
Telecine: Technicolor
Colorist: Tim Stipan
Producer: Dana Bloder
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Scott Benson, an animator whose hilarious Man and Cat at the End of the World we quickied last year has just put out a short film called Rebranding which explores a much darker theme. It’s probably best to just watch it first.
Read on for the film and a Q&A with Scott here.
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Sue
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Thanks to everyone who was able to make it out to the Resistor Gallery for the launch of EC Book 01. It was a great time had by all and the pictures to prove it are posted at the Electric Company Flickr page.
For those of you who were not able to make it, we have […]
To some of you, this piece may feel out of character in relation to our regularly posted content. However, there are universal lessons in storytelling and character-development that had to be shared, independent of medium. As I’ve personally been advocating a return to storytelling and simplicity in execution, this short hits the mark.
My discovery of this piece was on the blog of Ross McDonnell, documentary film maker, photo journalist and friend. So, the rest of the piece will pick up with his post:
Proving that almost anything with the words Werner and Herzog in the synopsis probably gets my seal of approval, for your viewing pleasure comes this unbelievably beautiful short film ‘Plastic Bag‘ by wunderkind director Ramin Bahrani.
I hold my hand up and admit that I haven’t seen any of Bahrani’s previous feature length efforts, Man Push Cart, Chop Shop or Goodbye Solo but all have been highly praised. Roger Ebert named Bahrani as ‘Director of the Decade’ for what it’s worth.
Plastic Bag is that rare beauty, a short film that is perfectly suited to the short form. The film is kind of ‘Wall-E’ meets Herzog’s own ‘Lessons of Darkness’ and is poetic, uplifting and timely all at the same time. It’s social message touches on that black hole of human waste that no-one seems to want to dredge the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ alluding to the issue without beating us over the head with it or resorting to any kind of environmental hyperbole or hysteria.
Plastic Bag is part of the recently launched Futurestates project, a series of short films by established and emerging directors that aims to ‘present a different filmmakers vision of American society in the not too distant future, fusing an exploration of social issues with elements of speculative science fiction.’ Check em out…
Motion Theory continues their decade-long run in the sports spot game with NCAA “Under Construction” from director Grady Hall. Hall’s background as a writer always brings a refreshing confidence and subtlety to MTh’s sports work.
Amidst all the bad work on-air during such a high-profile time as March Madness, these stood out from the pack. Perhaps it was also the fragile emotional state I was in after the nail-biting Butler vs. Kansas St. game; nonetheless, these are simple, to the point and well-executed.
On a technical note, I’m glad to see someone finally using this tired tilt-shift technique on concept that’s actually worthy of it.
Agency: Young & Rubicam/SF
Executive Creative Directors: Brad Berg, Scott Larson
Creative Directors: Paul Carek, Chris Toffoli
Executive Producer: Debra Trotz
Account Managing Director: Paul Hastings
Account Executive: Chris Palmer
Production Company: Motion Theory
Director: Grady Hall
Executive Producer: Javier Jimenez
Line Producer: Scott Gemmell
Director of Photography: Shawn Kim
VFX Company: Motion Theory
Producer: Patrick Nugent
Creative Directors: Kaan Atilla, Grady Hall
CG Supervisor: Danny Zobrist
Designers: Heidi Berg, Casey McIntyre, Aaron Lam, Tom McKay Price, My Tran, Angela Zhu
Pre-visualization: Chris Leone, Parker Sellers
2D Animator: John Robson
3D Artists/Animators: Brian Broussard, Sun Chung, Scott Cullen, Nick Loizides, Oded Raz, Bryan Repka, Dave Ridner, Eric Rosenthal
Matte Painter: Ram Bhat, Rob Blauser
Lead Compositor: Ryan Geist Bozajian
Compositors: Rachel Dunn, Kevin Ellis, James David Hattin, Daniel Raschko
Finishing: Danny Yoon
Rotoscope Artists: Gregory Duncan, Megan Gaffney, Rob Liscombe
Production Manager/HR Director: Tina Van Delden
Production Coordinator: Paul Pianezza
Creative Assistant: Ryan Erke
Editorial Company: String
Editor: Colin Woods
Assistant Editor: Jeff Aquino, Jeff Johnston
Sound Design Company: Machine Head
Creative Director: Stephen Dewey
Executive Producer: Patty Chow Dewey
Music/Sound Design/Mix by: Kip Smedley