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Levis Odyssey - walls After Effects, Maya, Photoshop September 2006
This is a commercial for Levis from 2002 that was directed by Jonathan Glazer. Each of the wall explosions were created in CG which was composited with additional live action elements for integration. My responsibility was to supervise the wall explosion segement. I believe we had about 28 wall interactions. With a small crew I developed a work flow for how to do the wall explosions. I worked hands on with previzing the sequence, the look of the wall pieces, tracking, rotoscoping the 3D actor to match the live actor for interaction purposes, replacing the original wall in cg, breaking the wall, hand animating the pieces flying post "simulation", lighting and rendering the shots.
Levis Odyssey Awards:
ITS Monitor Awards 2002 - National Commercials
Best Achievement
Best Visual Effects
SIGGRAPH 2002 Animation Theater
British Television Craft Awards 2002 - Best Computer Animation
Cannes Advertising Festival 2002 - Gold Lion
BTAA Awards 2002 - Best Clothing Commercial
Kinsale 2002 Shark Award
A more complete story of the making of can be found here at cgsociety.org too:
http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=167
