Oceans 13

One of my tasks on Oceans 13 was to design and build the screens where Oceans' crew mugshots brought up on Bank's office monitors and then manipulated until they can't be recognized.  

We shot a good portion of the crew members in a similar mugshot style so I could cut out pieces like hair, chins, noses, ears, etc... to use to create the new unrecognizable pictures. 

I decided on using a morphing technique on one part of the face at a time which provided a better visual look to the progression of the changing mugshots, but always making sure to leave the eyes so it would still feel like the original actor.  

I also was asked to create the initial design and animation for the Fender Roads video billboard.

For the diamond room graphic I decided to create as a real time 3d graphic in Adobe Director, mainly so it could be triggered to zoom in on the diamond necklaces in the case and still be able to continue rotating the camera smoothly.

I also help out in building some of the many needed casino / slot machine game graphics on the casino floor.

Fun with Dick & Jane

Fun with Dick & Jane called for a large news sequence where Dick Harper is a guest on a financial news show called Money Life and becomes the fall guy of his company's mishaps.

Working with the assistant art director Jason Sweers on the look of the show, we knew it needed to look and feel similar to a CNN style show with a little over the top comedic flair.

Since the sequence was entirely shot on a green screen, everything needed to be created digitally, even the set.  I tracked the opening shot in SynthEyes and built and animated the set in 3DS Max & After Effects.

Because the sequence also called for full frame shots, I designed the graphics to scale to any resolution so I could output full frame DPX files for the D.I.  The hardest part was scaling the green screen footage of Jim Carrey.  Since the sequence was shot on standard definition broadcast D1 cameras, I had to use some creative After Effects techniques along with the help of the Algolith AlgoSuite in order to scale the footage from 720x486 to 2k film without getting a really blurry image. 

Lastly, the script also called for a website that makes fun of Dick Harper's flub on national network news.  After meeting with the Director I came up with the idea to do a fun animation instead of just a static website.

The Terminal

During Pre-Production on The Terminal, François Audouy and I started working on creating the look for the GHN TV Network.

We felt it needed a familiar feel to the style of news stations at the time. This would make it believable without upstaging the news content, since it needed to be a vehicle for Tom Hank's character to connect with the turmoil in his country.

By using live broadcast switchers, we were able to overlay the GHN graphics live. This allowed us to give Mr. Spielberg the creative freedom to make changes on set.