Thank you to everyone who voted for our video for the “Buyback” Best Buy Video contest.

We did in fact win 2nd place nationwide. A nice $1,000 giftcard!

We shot everything on the 7d. I did all of the visuals in After Effects and Particle Illusion.

Check out the video below!

Bestbuy Buyback Video Contest

Our iphone development branch has been working with MassiveWar Studios on a new iphone game. We’re hoping to finish and release the game sometime in July 2011. The game is called Monkey Escape and you can check out the game details here.

We created a game intro video for MassiveWar Studios.  The animation was created and rendered in Cinema 4d.  Color correction and sound was composed in After Effects.

We finished a 30 second spot the other day with music artist, Joey Gaskin.

Everything was shot in our studio using a green screen.  We then used After Effects for our compositing and visual effects.

Music was mixed and added the finishing touches to the spot.

Here’s a quick tutorial I did showing some of the visual effects in our film Foxhole.

I explain simple shooting technics out in the field to help you prepare your footage for post production.

Check it out!  If you’ve got questions, hit me up!

Buy the movie.

Here are some of the behind the scenes photos from the movie set Foxhole.

Last week we shot 4 intense days for our next film, Foxhole. J-ROB Productions has produced and directed the film. We’ve Co-Produced, DP, Visual FXs and editing.

We’ve already completed the first editing session and have made lots of progress. We’re aiming to have the film completed by the end of January 2010.

We’ve finally finished Sword & Shield!

Check it out here!

We recently produced and submitted our own Doritos commercial for the Superbowl video contest.

The story line takes place in a park. The opening shot is of two guys who are sitting on two different park benches.  One is a nerd with a bag of Doritos.  The second is waiting for this girl friend with flowers.  Then with the power of Doritos, the unthinkable happens.

There was a CG scene that required the boy friend to be smashed by a Doritos bus. This was completed with After Effects and Photoshop.

Watch and laugh!

Here’s the commercial on Doritos’ website.

“Doritos Makes the Difference”

Six finalists will be chosen and given $25,000 cash prize by December 21, 2009. Then America will vote on the six and the top three commercials will go and be aired at this year’s Superbowl. Then whichever commercial is voted 1st, 2nd or 3rd on the USA Today meter after the superbowl, the prizes are 1st ($1,000,000), 2nd ($600,000) and 3rd ($400,000).

We’ve had a lot of people view our commercial and thankfully we’ve had a lot of laughs.

Some of the screenshots of the final commercial are shown below.

Today I worked with Billy at Soundbytes. I shot and edited their Doritos commercial for the Superbowl this year. The story line was pretty funny and the actors fit fairly well.

We took about 4.5 hours to shoot. I was DP and visual/fx supervisor. I had to set up several scenes for some animation later on in post. We also used a green screen during one scene.

We are not allowed to post the commercial until after the superbowl, but you can view the commercial here on Doritos’ website.

“Doritos… Don’t Ever Run Out!”