Conduit Productions 2013-Present
I have been working at Conduit Productions for the past year and a half now and have earned myself some really invaluable experience in both 3D animation and Compositing. I don't know what the future holds at this point but I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Conduit so far, meeting interesting and very talented people and learning to ply this trade in a tough and sometimes very uncertain industry.
I have come a long way in my year and a half here, from a humble intern in January 2013.
I am grateful I got this opportunity.
Please click on any and all video link buttons to be taken to the full videos on vimeo
Anyway! On with the show!
I have come a long way in my year and a half here, from a humble intern in January 2013.
I am grateful I got this opportunity.
Please click on any and all video link buttons to be taken to the full videos on vimeo
Anyway! On with the show!
Conduit Projects
2013 Conduit Montage
In 2013 Conduit Productions created a new Showreel for herself, a Montage of great pieces works and projects both for clients and personal projects created by the artists here. It is a really amazing piece and it really shows off the talents and amazing abilities of the great artists I get to work with. I was lucky enough to get to be a part of this project. Creating the Designed Logo and creating the intro scene along with a few various pieces throughout the montage.
https://vimeo.com/71402562
A big well done to the artists of Conduit
Kat Fietz
Damien Manuel
Andre
Scott Bridge
Marc Ziman
and Vanessa McGowan
https://vimeo.com/71402562
A big well done to the artists of Conduit
Kat Fietz
Damien Manuel
Andre
Scott Bridge
Marc Ziman
and Vanessa McGowan
The New Balance x Shelflife x Dr.Z - ML574CG Project
I was very fortunate enough to get to be a big part of this very fun very creative TVC for a New Balance and a new shoe. The New Balance x Shelflife x Dr.Z "City of Gold" 574. Quite a name but then I guess I have never named a shoe before.
It was a great experience and we all made some incredible work for this project. I enjoyed working with the Park Town Prawn model I had created and rigged and especially enjoyed jumping into Zbrush and detailing it. I had a rather good time animating the giant insect. Big credit goes to Andre Davis for the animation of the train crashing. The insect was also rigged by myself and I enjoyed the challenge of rigging it up. Always a dilema with rigging is knowing what you are going to need the rig to to and how far you can push it.
Big thanks to everyone at Conduit. A really great project with a nice result.
Here is the blog about the look and design of the shoes too:
https://www.shelflife.co.za/blog/New-Balance-x-Shelflife-x-Dr-Z-ML574CG
It was a great experience and we all made some incredible work for this project. I enjoyed working with the Park Town Prawn model I had created and rigged and especially enjoyed jumping into Zbrush and detailing it. I had a rather good time animating the giant insect. Big credit goes to Andre Davis for the animation of the train crashing. The insect was also rigged by myself and I enjoyed the challenge of rigging it up. Always a dilema with rigging is knowing what you are going to need the rig to to and how far you can push it.
Big thanks to everyone at Conduit. A really great project with a nice result.
Here is the blog about the look and design of the shoes too:
https://www.shelflife.co.za/blog/New-Balance-x-Shelflife-x-Dr-Z-ML574CG
PRIDE - Pride Land
We got in a really amazing TVC from PRIDE a washing up liquid based in Kenya. It was one of my first fully 3D pieces I worked on while being at Conduit Productions and it was an amazing experience. I loved every minute of it. From the crazy strange designs of the world and the moving rolling plates. It was just a lot of fun to work on. But wow did we have some trouble with hugely heavy scenes! So much going on in these shots I thought my computer was going to explode!
Hunters Premium Pack
This was a very fun job we did for Hunters, creating the pack and the condensation and droplets cascading down the side was a challenge that was rather enjoyable to overcome. I modelled and textured the pack as well as much of the elements to do with the droplets running down the side. The main drops were created in realflow and simulated running down the pack. I think we really achieved some amazing results especially where the liquid and glass is concerned.
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Minute Maid - Flava
A completely 3D job for Minute Maid, there were two TVC's we created for this company, a totally 3D one and a 2D one with some 3D elements, named Flava and Fresh respectively. This was one of the first jobs I did whilst working at Conduit Productions. I cut my teeth on some Zbrush experience by creating and texturing the various pieces of fruit through the two productions. As well as many elements in the trees, such as the branches and leaves.
Overall a very intense, but worth it, learning process on such a big project.
Overall a very intense, but worth it, learning process on such a big project.
COCA COLA connect
This was a project for Coca Cola in Uganda and it had a very nice design feel. This quirky promotion of their CONNECT activation. The compositors Kat Fietz and Scott Bridge did an amazing job on it. I created the various 3D elements you see floating throughout the piece, banners, logos and other assets.