The Defenders
The Defenders is a television show featuring Jim Belushi and Jerry O’Connell. Before it was released in the fall of 2010, Jim Belushi got a hold of my friend and co-worker, Jeffrey Varab, and asked if we could do a introduction for the pilot for the lawyers. Of course, once the show was completely funded they got some L.A. designers to recreate the introduction. Regardless, this is what me and Jeffrey created with the deadline of a couple of days. I designed the logo and then modeled, textured, lit and rendered in Maya and composited the piece in Fusion. Jeffrey did the 3d layout camera work and video editing and Mike Bellinger helped picked out the stock footage.
Dust Buneez
Dust Buneez is an idea that Jeffrey Varab, Danny Menedez, Mike Bellinger and I created in hopes that it would be picked up for either a television series or an animation movie. For a good portion of 2010, we worked very hard to get this going with the computers and sheer drive that it would be discovered and appreciated. We all did our part in the creation process. Jeffrey did all the drawing concept work and then handed it to me for style direction. While that was going on, Danny created and rigged the model. Luckly, since all of the Dust Buneez have the same simplistic body with different personalities, only one model was used. Once we had the model, I textured it and Mike handled the hair. We eventually got them to a good quality look, so I created the character sheet (Click here to see image). Eventually, we had a writer, Dennis Higgins write a screenplay for the movie. We all had high hopes once the Lego corporation gained interest in the idea and our artistic direction. However, after a few months they declined us an offer for the idea. For now, all of our work has been put into “the vault” until someone else perhaps is interested. I just thought it would be a good idea to post what we have done and hopefully others can appreciate it as well.
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