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This is the second of two brand new, recently completed :30 second spots produced for Ford Canada, coming out of Hatch Studios Ltd. featuring 100% digital vehicles and environments.











































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Project Credits
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Exec. Produced by Randi Yaffa
Produced by Carrie Jeffels
Vehicle Modeling by Rowan Simpson
Vehicle Shaders by Steven Hollman
Environmental Modeling & Texturing by Abdul Ali Mohammud, Raden Slipicevic, Chris Crozier
Animation & Camera Work by Kevin Vriesinga
Lighting, rendering & compositing by Brad Husband, Steven Hollman

Produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.


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-Richard]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:53:26 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/809275

This is the first of two brand new, recently completed :30 second spots produced for Ford Canada, coming out of Hatch Studios Ltd. featuring 100% digital vehicles and environments.

As usual, our friends at Y&R were a pleasure to work with.




















































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Project Credits
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Exec. Produced by Randi Yaffa
Produced by Carrie Jeffels
Vehicle Modeling by Rowan Simpson
Vehicle Shaders by Steven Hollman
Environmental Modeling & Texturing by Abdul Ali Mohammud, Raden Slipicevic, Chris Crozier
Animation & Camera Work by Kevin Vriesinga
Lighting, rendering & compositing by Brad Husband

Produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.


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-Richard]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:03:05 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/790048

This is the recently completed Ford "Holodeck" spot created at Hatch Studios Ltd.

"Holodeck" is Hatch's follow-up spot to the "White Room" series. This one features a slick menu system that showcases each of the new Ford Edge's features, transitioning the viewer into holographic surreal worlds in which objects continuously construct and collapse into themselves.

























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Project Credits
Directed by Richard Rosenman & Steven Hollman
Exec Produced by Randi Yaffa & Shenny Jaffer
Produced by Holly Nichols
Modeling by Chris Crozier, Rowan Simpson, Raden Slipicevic
Animation by Kevin Vriesinga, Scott Guppy, Dave Crispino
VFX by Abdul Ali Mohamud, Jason Stalker
Interface Design by Aaron White
Texturing, Lighting, rendering & compositing by Brad Husband

Produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.


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-Richard]]> Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:46:43 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/742621

This is the second of two station ID tags created at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Astral's "Z-Tele" channel.

In this second installment, we follow an assembly line from start to finish, showing the Z-Tele sphere being formed. Like the first cinematic, the robotic arms, claws & pulleys act as our catalyst to move us through various industrial environments, all of which change throughout the cinematic in combination with the developing logo.





















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Project Credits
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Exec. Produced by Randi Yaffa
Produced by Holly Nichols
Animatic by Scott Guppy
Modeling by Rowan Simpson, Raden Slipicevic, Jason Stalker, Stephane Goulet
Animation by Dave Crispino
VFX by Abdul Ali Mohamud
Texturing, lighting, rendering & compositing by Brad Husband

Produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.

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-Richard]]> Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:41:23 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/736459

This is a set of experimental 3D fractals generated with various software applications for the technical and creative exploration of computer generated abstract mesh creation.

All of these beautiful and sophisticated fractals belong to the quaternion, hypercomplex, cubic Mandelbrot, complexified quaternion and octonion renderings of the Mandelbrot and Julia sets. Some others are based on iterative 3x3 matrices where power series are utilized for transcendental and trig functions. The color treatment for each fractal was decided upon by it's shape and form.

Make sure to view the HD size images by clicking on "Please click here for high resolution print" under each picture.


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-Richard]]> Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:56:02 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/709023

These are a series of animated ID tags created by Hatch Studios Ltd. for Astral's broadcasting campaign. They feature the Z-Tele logo transforming into a living TV machine, as well as collapsing into the logo once more.

The screens were mapped with a cyan-colored image that was later replaced with live-action footage having been tracked using Max2AE. Camera and tracking information was exported from 3dsmax and imported into After Effects where the screen mapping was applied to animated planes. Additional passes such as reflections were then applied on top of the footage for added realism. The movie seen here is without the mapped footage.


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Project Credits
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Exec. Produced by Randi Yaffa
Produced by Holly Nichols
Modeling by Rowan Simpson
Rigging by Kevin Vriesinga
Animation by Dave Crispino
Lighting, rendering & compositing: Richard Rosenman

Produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.


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-Richard]]> Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:18:33 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/705356

Ester-C "Apartment" is a follow-up fifth spot to the previous set of four :15 spots recently created at Hatch Studios Ltd. It features two comedic Orange characters that were developed and created at Hatch for the branding of the new vitamin product.

























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Project Credits
Director: Richard Rosenman
Exec Producer: Randi Yaffa
Producer: Holly Nichols
Modeling: Chris Crozier, Stepahen Goulet
Animation: Dave Crispino
Lighting, rendering & compositing: Richard Rosenman

Produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.


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-Richard]]> Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:54:55 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/700309

This is the first of two station ID tags created at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Astral's "Z-Tele" channel.

The premise here was to create an impactful sequence that would fit into Z-Tele's programming themes and styles. I developed a sub-story in which we follow a macroscopic machine powering up. The electrical current acts as the catalyst to move us through this vivid environment up until the end, when we reveal to the viewer that the machine was actually the inside of the Z-Tele logo.

A dynamic camera move was essential here, especially to give the impression of a continually-igniting machine in which we just barely miss being hit by fire, sparks, pistons, and much more.

It should be mentioned that we had a great time working on this cinematic, partly due to the wonderful guys at Astral who loved this as much as we did.


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Project Credits
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Exec. Produced by Randi Yaffa
Produced by Holly Nichols
Modeling by Stephane Goulet
Animation by Dave Crispino
VFX by Abdul Ali Mohamud
Lighting, rendering & compositing by Richard Rosenman

Produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.

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-Richard]]> Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:18:10 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/693910

Toblerone "Christmas" is one of Hatch Studios Ltd. latest character spots. This elegant :15 tag features four stylized characters in an equally stylized Toblerone world where various objects throughout the environment appear to have the Toblerone bite taken out of it.






















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This is also a magazine print which you can see here.

There are also Toblerone car production prints which you can see here.

Project Credits
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Exec. Produced by Randi Yaffa
Produced by Holly Nichols
Environment / Props modeled by Stephane Goulet, Raden Slipicevic, Rowan Simpson
Characters modeled by Wendy Rozycki, David Emirzian, Corey Hayes
Animated by Scott Guppy, Kevin Vriesinga
TD by Paul Neale, Mathieson Facer, Eric Harvey, Felipe Nogueira
Texture Assist by Chris Crozier
Texture, lighting, rendering & compositing by Brad Husband

Produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.


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-Richard]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:03:01 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/689207

Hey guys;

Here are three of my latest Greeblelicious entries. Some created with Greeble, some with Particle Flow. There's also an HD link under each one for your 'browsing pleasure'. lol. They look pretty cool high res...


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The Greeblelicious website (with a contest ending this month!):
http://www.greeblelicious.com

More Greeble pics:
http://www.richardrosenman.com/project?cid=89
http://www.richardrosenman.com/project?cid=84

-Richard]]> Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:23:56 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/573813

UPDATE: PIXILA 3.0 PRE-RELEASE NOW ONLINE!

We are pleased to announce the world-wide official launch of the Pixila Artist Portfolio site.

Pixila is a ground-breaking website specifically developed to provide cutting-edge professional portfolio services to artists and agencies from virtually any type of creative industry, all 100% free.

Combined with highly personalized member galleries, unlimited album and image uploads, specialized portfolio management, professional gallery presentation, and peer to peer tools more powerful than you’ve ever seen before, Pixila easily blows the competition away.

Developed from the ground up to suit any artist in any industry, Pixila is the portfolio site you’ve been waiting for. Digital, traditional, visual and fine artists will find the gallery features just as intuitive as designers, painters, photographers, illustrators, architects and sculptors alike. After all, it was developed by artists just like you.

Becoming a member of Pixila is easy! Within minutes, you can have access to your own personalized artist portfolio loaded with advanced features as well as instant networking with thousands of other Pixila artists throughout the world. All 100% free!

Please visit Pixila at http://www.pixila.com and join the revolution!

-Richard]]> Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:59:19 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/641468

Pelikan "Griffix" is Hatch Studios' latest international spot produced for Pelikan, Germany. It features four stylized kids from various age groups each showcasing Pelikan's latest "Griffix" line of children's pens.

The gang performs an energetic dance routine in which they sing about their specific pens, ending in a climatic finale that wraps up the commercial nicely. The version presented here is the 4:3 PAL superless version. We also produced a widescreen SD alt. This sound is not the final so lip-sync might be slightly off.















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Credits
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Exec. Produced by Randi Yaffa
Produced by Holly Nichols
Character Designs by Chris Cann
Character Modeling / Rigging by Joel Mongeon
Environmental Modeling by Raden Slipicevic, Chris Crozier, Rowan Simpson, Abdul Ali Mohamud
Animated by Scott Guppy, Kevin Vriesinga
Lighting, Rendering & Compositing by Richard Rosenman

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Katzuo was an experiment in combining fundamental & simple character forms contrasted with highly detailed texture work. This fusion of opposite style aspects creates a unique image that instantly captures the gestural form of the character yet continues to attract the eye to different areas of the image in which new details are constantly making themselves visible.



This contrast follows through to subject matter as well featuring a relatively cute character yielding a fierce weapon against a morbid backdrop.

Once more, the contrast is also maintained within the color palette combining soft, pink and healthy skin tones against dark reds and weathered textures.

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-Richard]]> Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:46:35 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/630512

This is one of two spots produced by Hatch Studios Ltd. for Reach. Appropriately named "Conveyor", it features a character being able to brush her teeth by sliding her teeth within her mouth.

Some interesting notes about this project were that we created the characters in a very stylized caricature form yet rendered them in a method which makes them appear very 'tangible'. The oversized heads in proportion to the bodies further emphasize this as does the realistic lighting setup. In addition, ensuring that the teeth moving within the mouth didn't come off as looking creepy was a challenge in itself.











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Credits
Direced by Richard Rosenman
Exec. Produced by Randi Yaffa
Produced by Holly Nichols
Character Designs by Angelo Libutti
Character Modeling / Rigging by Joel Mogeon
Modeling by Chris Crozier, Rowan Simpson
Animation by Kevin Vriesinga
Lighting & Rendering by Chris Crozier
Online by Patrick Coffee @ Relish

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Marcus was sculpted, textured and displaced with ZBrush 3, rendered with VRay 1.5 RC3, and composited with Photoshop.

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Background treatment created with photo-composites within Photoshop. Depth of Field created with DOF PRO.

Project Page:
http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=167

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-Richard]]> Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:03:25 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/609386

Ford "Ice" is the latest spot to come out of Hatch Studios Ltd. featuring numerous computer generated vehicles, environments and VFX shots produced in full 1080P HD.

The spot features a Fusion making an epic journey across two continents and freezing its surrounding environment in doing so. This is synonymous with Ford?s tagline: ?Create a reaction.? When crosses the ocean we showcase beautiful frozen environments through which the car determinately travels until it reaches the other side. At this point, we are greeted with an unexpected surprise bringing the commercial to a dramatic finale.





















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Credits
3D Director: Richard Rosenman
Exec. Producer: Randi Yaffa
Producer: Holly Nichols
Modeling: Rowan Simpson, Chris Crozier
Animation: Kevin Vriesinga
Ice VFX: Abdul Ali Mohamud, Raden Slipicevic
Matte Painting: Steven Hollman
Lighting & rendering: Richard Rosenman
Compositing: Richard Rosenman, Alex Boothby
Online at Technicolor: Alex Boothby
Car Paint Checker: Bondi

Live Action Shoot: Spy Films

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Ford "Thrill Ride" is the latest spot created at Hatch Studios Ltd, directed by Richard Rosenman and Larissa Ulisko.

Inspired by Japanese illustration, this spot relies heavily on seamless integration of cutting edge 3D computer graphics combined with bold 2D character designs, both existing in a lavish and rich multi-media environment.

Not only did we wish to create a visually compelling spot, but we also insisted in developing a sub-story involving aggressive & chaotic characters attempting to catch the Ford Fusion. This provided a set-up for a wild car chase in which the Fusion inevitably out-maneuvers the characters in a climatic and explosive finale.

Props to our agency and client friends who made this such a fun project to work on.





















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Project credits:
Directed by Richard Rosenman & Larissa Ulisko
Exec. Produced by Randi Yaffa
Character designs by Chris Cann
Modeling by Chris Crozier, Rowan Simpson, Abdul Ali Mohamud, Raden Slipicevic
Animation by Scott Guppy & Kevin Vriesinga
Texturing by Marcin Porebski, Steven Hollman
Lighting & rendering by Richard Rosenman
Compositing & design by Larissa Ulisko
Online at Technicolor w/ Alex Boothby
Pyrotechnics by Bondi

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Billy Bob Boone was originally created for CGTalk’s "Strange Behavior" competition in an attempt to capture oddity through expression.



Billy Bob has also been published in this month's "3D Creative" magazine! To download the free version, please click here: http://www.3dcreativemag.com/lite_i...bruary_2008.zip

He was created using ZBrush, textured with 3dsmax, and rendered with VRay. The clothing and background were created from photo elements. He was composited with Photoshop and the depth of field created using DOF PRO.

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This recently-completed spot called "Launch" was produced by Hatch Studios Ltd. for the early 2008 Heart & Stroke Lottery. The :30 commercial features a pinball machine in which we follow the ball as it guides us through the various prizes you can win and educates the viewer about what the H&S Foundation is responsible for.

There were more than 20 different versions created for this spot, mainly to comply with the constantly changing deadline dates. In order to make this efficient for production, various scenes were developed in a manner that would allow both the insertion of such an element, and would work just as well without.

The commercial was rendered using pre-calculated irradiance maps for flicker-free global illumination output in combination with single-frame GI elements requiring motion, all of which were later composited together and color-corrected in post.

The spot was modeled, textured and animated with 3dsmax 8.0, rendered with VRay 1.5 RC3 and composited with After Effects. Photoshop was used for all the graphics and it was onlined on a Flame.











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Please click here to see the "Early Bird" version movie.

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Project credits:
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Exec. Produced by Randi Yaffa
Design by Larissa Ulisko
Design Assisting by Pantea Razzaghi
Lead Modeling / Supervising by Chris Crozier
Modeling by Raden Slipicevic, Abdul Ali Mohamud
Animation by Scott Guppy
Lighting, rendering and compositing by Richard Rosenman
Online at Relish by Patrick Coffee

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Ester-C "Kicker" is one of four :15 spots recently created at Hatch Studios Ltd. It features two comedic Orange characters that were developed and created at Hatch for the branding of the new vitamin product.

All four spots were created from scratch in just under one and a half month's time which was quite a laboreous task due to the various highly detailed environments. The character textures were created from real orange peel scans enhanced with displacement mapping and subtle glossy reflections. Stretchy arms, legs and bodies were incorporated into the IK in order to achieve exaggerated cartoon style squash and stretch animation.

The spot was modeled with Silo & 3dsmax, animated with 3dsmax, lit and rendered with VRay 1.5 RC3, and composited with After Effects. The depth of field was created with DOF PRO.












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http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=155

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Project credits:
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Exec Produced by Randi Yaffa
Modeling: Ian Spriggs, Chris Crozier, Raden Slipicevic, Abdul Ali Mohamud
Animation: Scott Guppy
Texturing (character), lighting, rendering & compositing by Richard Rosenman
Onlined @ Relish by Patrick Coffey
Hairstyling by Bondi

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Ester-C "Pusher" is one of four :15 spots recently created at Hatch Studios Ltd. It features two comedic Orange characters that were developed and created at Hatch for the branding of the new vitamin product.

All four spots were created from scratch in just under one and a half month's time which was quite a laboreous task due to the various highly detailed environments. The character textures were created from real orange peel scans enhanced with displacement mapping and subtle glossy reflections. Stretchy arms, legs and bodies were incorporated into the IK in order to achieve exaggerated cartoon style squash and stretch animation.

The spot was modeled with Silo & 3dsmax, animated with 3dsmax, lit and rendered with VRay 1.5 RC3, and composited with After Effects. The depth of field was created with DOF PRO.















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For more information, please visit the project page at:
http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=154

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Project credits:
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Exec Produced by Randi Yaffa
Modeling: Ian Spriggs, Chris Crozier, Raden Slipicevic, Abdul Ali Mohamud
Animation: Scott Guppy
Texturing (character), lighting, rendering & compositing by Richard Rosenman
Onlined @ Relish by Patrick Coffey
Hairstyling by Bondi

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These are tests using 3dsmax's physics simulation plugin, Reactor. These simulations focus specifically on rigid bodies involving large quantities of elements, each with appropriate size, weight and friction properties. In addition, there are collision objects which are always color-coded in blue.

Although the nature of these tests is rather simple, creating a fully-functional and physically-correct environment can be quite challenging. All variables must work collectively together in order to produce a functional simulation and usually persistent tweaking is required before a usable solution is found. The results however, are definitely worth it since creating such intricate keyframed animation would require months of labor as opposed to thirty seconds of computational processing power.

Simulated with 3dsmax 8.0 Reactor, rendered with VRay 1.5 RC3 and composited with After Effects.











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http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=147

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This is one of four tags recently created for Teletoon Canada at Hatch Studios Ltd.

Each tag features a character transforming from summer and winter sports equipment and performing various related actions. The premise was to encourage kids to be physically active and suggest some activities for doing so.

The tags were quite fun to develop as well as challenging in order to pack as much as possible in only seven seconds. Currently, the tags are on TV and web.











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Credits
Directed by Richard Rosenman.
Exec. Produced by Randi Yaffa.
Rigging & dynamics by Chris Crozier.
Modeled by Chris Crozier, Raden Slipicevic, Abdul Ali Mohamud.
Animated by Scott Guppy.
Lit, rendered and composited by Richard Rosenman.
Catering services by Bondi.

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These are a set of two Ester-C production prints created for various magazine, newspaper and internet ads created at Hatch Studios Ltd.

The original ad(s) can be see here: Ester-C "Psychiatrist"



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Credits
Director: Richard Rosenman
Exec Producer: Randi Yaffa
Modeling: Ian Spriggs, Chris Crozier, Raden Slipicevic, Abdul Ali Mohamud
Posing: Scott Guppy
Texturing (character), lighting, rendering & compositing: Richard Rosenman
Online: Relish w/ Patrick Coffey
Hairstyling: Bondi

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Ester-C "Psychiatrist" is one of four :15 spots recently created at Hatch Studios Ltd. It features two comedic Orange characters that were developed and created at Hatch for the branding of the new vitamin product.

All four spots were created from scratch in just under one and a half month's time which was quite a laboreous task due to the various highly detailed environments. The character textures were created from real orange peel scans enhanced with displacement mapping and subtle glossy reflections. Stretchy arms, legs and bodies were incorporated into the IK in order to achieve exaggerated cartoon style squash and stretch animation.

The spot was modeled with Silo & 3dsmax, animated with 3dsmax, lit and rendered with VRay 1.5 RC3, and composited with After Effects. The depth of field was created with DOF PRO.















Please click here to see the movie.

For more information, please visit the project page at:
http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=140

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Project credits:
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Exec Produced by Randi Yaffa
Modeling: Ian Spriggs, Chris Crozier, Raden Slipicevic, Abdul Ali Mohamud
Animation: Scott Guppy
Texturing (character), lighting, rendering & compositing by Richard Rosenman
Onlined @ Relish by Patrick Coffey
Hairstyling by Bondi

Produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.]]> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:07:33 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/538183

This project was a Siggraph 2007 showcase demo produced for Autodesk Media & Entertainment (M&E) at Hatch Studios Ltd.

The premise was to create a sophisticated menu system symbolizing Autodesk's various M&E market and product lines. The demo features three main sections: Film, Design, and Games, each of which was intercut with client footage.

Each market section (and associated sphere) is represented through deviated color grading (Red, Blue, then Green). The main menu therefore contains a neutral grading with splashes of all three colors carefully dispersed throughout. The use of color graded treatments helps keep consistency from section to section and holds the piece together quite nicely.

The video shown here contains only the 3D work, without the client footage since permission would have been required from each contributor. In addition, the typography has also been removed. As a result, some props such as the video monitors may appear untextured when in fact they have the client footage playing within.













Please click here to see the movie.

For more information, please visit the project page at:
http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=138

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Project credits:
Director: Richard Rosenman
Designer: Larissa Ulisko
Exec. Producer: Randi Yaffa
Modeling: Chris Crozier, Raden Slipicevic, Abdul "Rocky" Ali Mohamud
Animation: Chris Crozier, Scott Guppy
Lighting, rendering & 3D compositing: Richard Rosenman
2D compositing & motion graphics: Larissa Ulisko
Typography: Jo-ey Lee
Music: Scott Bucsis
Editing: Bijou
Surge protector: Bondi

Created at Hatch Studios Ltd.]]> Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:56:55 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/691630

These are production prints of the Ford Fusion for the Ford "Rollercoaster" spot created at Hatch Studios Ltd.

The original project can be found here:
http://www.richardrosenman.com/proj...solution print.



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Project Credits
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Modeled by Rowan Simpson
Textured, lit & rendered by Richard Rosenman

Created at Hatch Studios Ltd.


For more information, please visit:
http://richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=171

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-Richard
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The following images are vehicle prints created during the production of the Ford Built To Handle commercial at Hatch Studios Ltd.

They were developed as presentation prints during the final stages of the 3D vehicle modeling & texturing in order to determine if there were any inconsistencies between the CG model and the real car.



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The project page can be found here and the original spot can be found here.

Project credits:
Director (Prints): Richard Rosenman
Modeling: Abdul "Rocky" Ali Mohamud
Texturing, staging, lighting & rendering: Richard Rosenman

Created at Hatch Studios Ltd.

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-Richard]]> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:37:05 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/518698

The following images are vehicle prints created during the production of the Ford Built Smarter commercial at Hatch Studios Ltd.

They were developed as presentation prints during the final stages of the 3D vehicle modeling & texturing in order to determine if there were any inconsistencies between the CG model and the real car.



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The project page can be found here and the original spot can be found here.

Project credits:
Director (Prints): Richard Rosenman
Modeling: Abdul "Rocky" Ali Mohamud
Texturing, staging, lighting & rendering: Richard Rosenman

Created at Hatch Studios Ltd.

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-Richard]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:23:36 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/513961

The following images are vehicle prints created during the production of the Ford Accessories commercial at Hatch Studios Ltd.

They were developed as presentation prints during the final stages of the 3D vehicle modeling & texturing in order to determine if there were any inconsistencies between the CG model and the real car.



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The project page can be found here and the original spot can be found here.

Project credits:
Director (Prints): Richard Rosenman
Modeling: Tyler Figueira, Abdul "Rocky" Ali Mohamud
Texturing, staging, lighting & rendering: Richard Rosenman

Created at Hatch Studios Ltd.

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-Richard]]> Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:18:08 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/495943

Ford "Built to Handle" is our latest spot created at Hatch Studios Ltd., directed by Larissa Ulisko.

It features the Ford Fusion open like a book into an graphic and abstract garage environment in which we see the vehicle performing dynamic precision maneuvers while showcasing its various distinct abilities. At the end, the camera rotates 180 degrees revealing the Fusion parked on the garage ceiling - due to its powerful traction.

In case you hadn't guessed by now, the voice read was done by Kiefer Sutherland.













Please click here to see the movie.

Project credits:
Director: Larissa Ulisko
3D Director: Richard Rosenman
Exec. Producer: Randi Yaffa
Vehicle Modeling & VFX: Abdul "Rocky" Ali Mohamud
Environmental Modeling: Raden Slipicevic
Technical Line Rendering: Tyler Figueira
Animation: Scott Guppy
Lighting & rendering: Richard Rosenman
Compositing & motion graphics: Larissa Ulisko

Created at Hatch Studios Ltd.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=131
http://www.hatchstudios.net/index.c....work&workid=26

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-Richard
]]> Mon, 14 May 2007 03:10:30 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/508318

Ford "Built Smart" is our latest spot created at Hatch Studios Ltd., directed by Larissa Ulisko. It is the second spot for Ford belonging to a campaign set of several.

It features the Ford Escape open like a book into a graphic and abstract landscape environment in which we see the vehicle performing dynamic precision maneuvers while showcasing its various distinct features.

In case you hadn't guessed by now, the voice read was done by Kiefer Sutherland.















Please click here to see the movie.

Project credits:
Director: Larissa Ulisko
Exec. Producer: Randi Yaffa
Vehicle Modeling & VFX: Abdul "Rocky" Ali Mohamud
Environmental Modeling: Chris Crozier, Raden Slipicevic
Technical Line Rendering: Raden Slipicevic
Animation: Scott Guppy
Lighting & rendering: Richard Rosenman
Compositing & motion graphics: Larissa Ulisko

Created at Hatch Studios Ltd.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=133
http://www.hatchstudios.net/#index.....work&workid=27

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-Richard
]]> Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:02:37 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/483701

Ford "Accessories" is the latest spot to come out of our studio, Hatch Studios Ltd, for Y&R Canada. The spot is 100% CGI, combined with photographic elements.

The spot features the 2007 Ford F150 accessories transforming onto the truck from various dynamic angles. As the parts continue to transform, the pacing increasingly builds up until the commercial comes to a dramatic finale. Combined with a frenetic soundtrack, the spot delivers an explosive display of visual energy sure enough to get everyone's adrenaline flowing.













Please click here to see the movie.

For more information, please visit the project page at:
http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=130

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Project credits:
Director: Richard Rosenman
Exec. Producer: Randi Yaffa
Vehicle Modeling: Tyler Figueira, Abdul "Rocky" Ali Mohamud
Animation: Richard Rosenman, Abdul "Rocky" Ali Mohamud
Rock Modeling: Abdul "Rocky" Ali Mohamud
Lighting, rendering & compositing: Richard Rosenman

Created at Hatch Studios Ltd.]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:11:42 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/495939

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-Richard]]> Mon, 14 May 2007 02:58:32 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/478559

This is a recently completed project produced at Hatch Studios Ltd. for Kraft Canada, represented by J. Walter Thompson. The project took approximately 6 weeks to develop with a core staff of approximately 8 people.



















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For more info, please go to:
http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=128

Project credits:
Director: Richard Rosenman
Exec. Producer: Randi Yaffa
Character Artist (Modeling, Rigging): Joel Mongeon
Lead Animator: Kevin Lebanowich
Secondary Chars Animator: Scott Guppy
Scene 1 Animator: Shawn Escay
Environmental Modeling: Raden Slipicevic, Tyler Figueira
Cloth Dynamics: Joel Mongeon
Special VFX: Tyler Figueira
Lighting, Rendering & Compositing: Richard Rosenman
Line Producer: Julia Weinstein
Online Artist @ Relish: Patrick Coffey

Produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:13:48 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/454294

This is an in-house character created at Hatch Studios Ltd.

Charlie is Sammy's intergalactic partner in crime. Together, they recklessly cruise the universe causing an insurmountable amount of trouble and leaving a trail of broken hearts behind them. While Sammy evolved from a long line of once noble and oddly refined reptilian ancestors, Charlie was a runaway offshoot from a biological swine and pit bull DNA mixing experiment gone horribly wrong. As a result, Charlie lacks the minimal capacity of intellect required for self preservation, and had it not been for his favorite personal ACME laser blaster lifted from 'Convenience Z' in the Delta Quadrant, his species would have long since perished having put the universe in a better place. Charlie's quite the trigger-happy madcap he appears to be and some have incredulously compared him to a particular president from the late 21st century on planet earth*. While civilian sightings of Charlie are extremely rare, we managed to get our hands on this particular mug shot taken moments before he busted out of the joint with Sammy's help.

*Un-named president was later responsible for destruction of planet earth.

Charlie was modeled, sculpted and textured using ZBrush, and rendered with VRay 1.47.03. It was polished in Photoshop where the background was also created.

Credits:
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Exec Produced by Randi Yaffa
Modeling and sculpting by Joel Mongeon
Design, posing, lighting, texturing, rendering and compositing by Richard Rosenman

Produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.]]> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:13:18 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/437053

CGSphere.com is a website dedicated to the evolution of technical and creative 3D sphere design and you're invited to participate! The purpose is simple; create the most captivating and visually appealing sphere from our provided scene using your 3D program and renderer of choice. We encourage everyone to submit his or her renders regardless of their skill level so long as they adhere to the rules. However, those with the best renders will receive the highest ratings and possibly make the front page. Your goal is to rise to the top, through the use of clever ideas, thoughtful execution, technical expertise, and dazzling presentation. Above all, have fun creating your submission!]]> Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:34:14 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/423060

This is a promotion print of the Bick's alien produced by Hatch Studios Ltd. for Ogilvy & Mather. The original project can be found here.

The alien was modeled and textured using ZBrush, rigged and animated in 3dsmax 8.0, and rendered with VRay 1.47.03. Depth Of Field was produced in part with DOF PRO. It was polished in Photoshop using photo composites.

Directed by Richard Rosenman
Exec Produced by Randi Yaffa
Modeling/sculpting, rigging and texturing by Joel Mongeon
Posing, lighting, rendering and compositing by Richard Rosenman

Produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.

-Richard]]> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:22:46 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/417798

Hey guys and gals;

These are from another of our various recently completed projects at Hatch Studios Ltd.

These are a set of fourteen backgrounds created for the agency Ben Simon Burns. They were developed for the new 2006 version of the highly-successful anti-smoking campaign website commissioned by the Government of Ontario.

The website featuring the backgrounds can be found at:
http://www.stupid.ca

Each of the rooms were color graded in a specific hue to reflect the mood and atmosphere of the environment.

Here are some of the final renders:











To see the rest of the renders, please visit the project page at:
http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=117

Credits:
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Exec Produced by Randi Yaffa
Modeling by Joel Mongeon
Texturing, lighting, rendering & compositing by Richard Rosenman

Produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.

-Richard]]> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:28:30 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/412675

Hey guys;

It's been a while since I last posted anything and that was partly due to our studio opening up - Hatch Studios Ltd. Please excuse the work-in-progress website!

Anyway, here is one of the first projects we produced there some time ago for Bick's / Ogilvy & Mather. There's three spots in total in which an 'intercepted' TV signal is shown with an alien documentarian commenting on the cruel ways we treat pickles. Absurd and funny.










Movies:
Please click here to see the 480x360 movie.

Project Page:
http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=108

Credits:
Directed by Richard Rosenman
Produced by Randi Yaffa
Character design by Richard Rosenman and Angelo Libutti
Modeling, rigging and texturing by Joel Mongeon
Animation, lighting, rendering and compositing by Richard Rosenman
Assisting animation by Brent George

Produced at Hatch Studios Ltd.]]> Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:16:34 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/372085

This is the latest cut of my 2006 demoreel. All work seen here has either been directed by myself, co-directed by myself, or worked on by myself. This work ranges from various studios over a number of years. For credit information, please click here.


You can download them directly from here:

480x360

Kick back, turn up the speakers and enjoy....


-Richard]]> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:41:13 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/357958

These 5 prints were created for the launch of Samsung's new Z5 MP3 player. The prints were created as poster-sized images and published throughout Canada in bus stops, subway stations, and billboards.

There were also animated sequences produced for the campaign but I was not involved in these.

Currently, the prints are also featured on Samsung's Z5 website which can be found by clicking here.









(Product test and lighting render - unpublished)



These renders were produced with 3dsmax 6.0, rendered with VRay 1.47.03 and composited with Photoshop.

Prints directed by Richard Rosenman.
Prints modeled by Ben Pilgrim.
Prints posed by Kyle Dunlevy.
Prints textured, lit, rendered and composited by Richard Rosenman.

Produced at Redrover Studios Ltd.]]> Tue, 16 May 2006 03:26:44 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/347045

Jamba! "Mobile" was produced in early 2006 for Jamba! represented by Michael Kocurek at Infosection e.K.

Jamba! "Mobile" features "Swead", the curious little red monster who many of you may remember from several years ago.

Please click here to see the original "Swead" CGTalk thread.

Since then, "Swead" has gone on to win numerous awards while gaining international recognition. It was partially due to his popularity that a commercial was soon after produced to advertise Infosection's upcoming "Das Turnier" game and Jamba's mobile ringtone services.

















Please click here to be taken to the project page for additional movies, images and info.

Please click here to see the 480x360 movie.

Director & Producer: Richard Rosenman
Executive Producer: Danielle Araiche
Technical Director: Ben Pilgrim
VFX Director: Mike Oliver
Assisting TD & VFX: Britton Plewes
Animators: Matt Kowaliszyn, Greg Court, Kyle Dunlevy
Lighting & Rendering: Richard Rosenman
Environment Modeler: Britton Plewes
Compositor: Brad Husband
Stunt Coordinator: Bondi

Client: Jamba!
Agency: Infosection.com
Agency Producer: Michael Kocurek

Produced at Redrover Studios Ltd.


Enjoy!
-Richard]]> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:22:56 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/86090

This was a job for Infosection, a German company, that required four different renders of a newly designed character to serve as their upcoming video game host. As you can see, it was decided early in the production that the character would have fur, which therefore required a fair amount of research and development regarding fur solutions for 3dsmax. In the end, Shag:Hair was used because it provided unlimited flexibility and control over every aspect of the fur. The character was lit using traditional lighting techniques in conjunction with global illumination.










For more info including credit list and additional renders please go to:

The official "Swead" project page.

-Richard]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2003 05:55:45 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/343755

We're finally able to show this. Better late than never...
Barritas "Olympics" consisted of a twenty-second spot for the Marinela company in Mexico. The spot was heavily focused on character work and required three fully modeled, rigged and textured characters - a pineapple, a strawberry, and a pastry bun. About one week was assigned to modeling since the characters had been pre-built for previous commercials, three weeks for animation, two weeks for lighting and rendering, and the remaining week for compositing. This job turned out to be quite fun to work on since we were able to push the character performances as far as we wanted to which resulted in some very funny animation.








For the movie, please click here.

For more project info, images and movies please click here.

Project credits:
Director: Richard Rosenman
Executive Producer: Danielle Araiche
Producer: Christina Helmer
Technical Director: Ben Pilgrim
Assisting TD: Britton Plewes
Animation Director: Kyle Dunlevy
Lighting & Rendering: Richard Rosenman
Environment Modeler: Chris Crozier
Compositor: Brad Husband
Editor: Scott Bucsis
Produced at Redrover Animation Studios Ltd.
-Richard
]]> Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:09:12 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/347112

WHO IS SAMMY?

Sammy travels the galaxy with the sole purpose of "disturbing the peace". He is known by many as "The Troublemaker", or more simply put, "The Troubler". Sammy peddles faulty weaponry and defective warp engines for income, often reselling such scrap for more than ten times their worth. Although Sammy may appear to be quite reptilian in nature, he is actually quite a ladies man and has a bad habit of getting caught red handed by his multiple girlfriends across the galaxy. Currently, there are several hundred arrest warrants for him due to fraud.

Sammy was created over the span of about a week, on and off. He was produced solely for personal satisfaction, from an idea I had some time ago. Although he is a fairly simple character in terms of design, the lighting, texturing and rendering were quite complex. His skin was rendered with micro-triangle displacement technology, in conjunction with conventional bump mapping and although this is not quite evident here, it is very impressive in the 4000x4000 resolution composite. The fine displacement used on the skin produces ultra-detailed realism which effectively eliminates any stretch on the texture maps. Sammy was rendered in layers for maximum compositing control, as all my projects are. There were 7 layers in total: 2 gradient backgrounds, a DOF detailed background, a character layer, a global illumination layer (GI Pass / Ambient Occlusion Pass), a diffused soft glow, and a harder edge glow. Sammy was posted before but new links needed to be updated.

Please click here to be taken to the Sammy project page.

Sammy was modeled and textured with 3dsmax 6.0, rendered with VRay 1.09 using traditional lighting techniques with global illumination, and composited (as well as color corrected and processed) with Photoshop.

-Richard]]> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:48:05 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/276281

Who is Carlito?

Carlito is one of the few remaining and extremely rare South American Horned Slugs. Although quite curious and passive in nature, South American Horned Slugs are astonishingly stupid and have therefore dwindled down in population faster than panties being hurled at a Tom Jones concert. It is presently estimated, or perhaps optimistically misjudged, that only a mere hundred thousand exist in the deepest, dampest and drabbest of Chilean jungles. Being descendents of the Giant South African Slug species (and still a mind-boggling mystery how they crossed the continents), they tend to secrete a thick, slimy and glistening green mucus. Once termed "The species most likely to win first place in the Darwin Awards" by none other than Darwin himself late one night during a Poker game gone sour, their mucus tends to be particularly sweet scented therefore posing a precarious threat to their impending extinction. You see, South American Horned Slugs tend to have a staggeringly short memory span and will quite often (99.8% incidence rate) supplement their diet by ingesting their very own, already forgotten, mucus trails. This, in turn, leads to a never-ending feeding frenzy in which they spend the rest of their unquestionably meaningless days going around in circles and consuming their slimy discharge until either catastrophic intestinal eruption occurs, terminal exhaustion sets in, or they are fatefully preyed upon by the ever-ferocious and often-elusive South American Horned Beetle (who coincidentally evolved with the unfathomable gift of specifically identifying that very same mucus scent from over 3 kilometers away).

Please click here to be taken to the Carlito project page.

The model was created within ZBrush using ZSpheres where it was modeled, sculpted, textured and displaced. Thereafter, it was imported into 3dsmax for lighting and rendering using VRay 1.45.70. The rendering was split up into numerous layers such as diffuse, specular, shadow, ambient occlusion, diffuse glows, etc, for optimum control during the compositing stage.

The foliage was created entirely from numerous color corrected composite photographs and the depth of field was produced with my own Depth Of Field Generator PRO plugin:
http://www.dofpro.com

-Richard]]> Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:39:55 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/201426

Boris was created over the span of about a month, on and off. He was produced solely for personal satisfaction from an idea I had some time ago. Although he's technically supposed to be a merciless alien invader, he is far too compassionate for planetary conquest and instead "comes in peace", quite often escaping near-death capture by the worlds he visits.

Yep, just thought I'd give you some details of his background.

Now the technical stuff: He was modeled with a mix of box modeling and mesh sculpting in 3dsmax. His skin was rendered with micro-triangle displacement technology, in conjunction with conventional bump mapping which looks very impressive in the 4000x4000 resolution composite. Boris was rendered in numerous layers for maximum compositing control, as all my projects are. There were 35 layers in total, particularly because there was heavy Photoshop work done to this one. Perhaps if there is enough interest in the near future I will show the layering breakdown.

Please click here to be taken to the Boris project page.

Boris was modeled and textured with 3dsmax 6.0, rendered with VRay 1.45.70 using traditional lighting techniques with global illumination, and composited (as well as color corrected, processed and treated) with Photoshop.

Hope you like him.
-Richard]]> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:46:04 +0000 http://richardrosenman.cgsociety.org/gallery/271643

Who is Ronald?

Ronald is an old and miserable sixth generation butler who is profoundly unhappy with his chosen profession. Despite this, Ronald keeps at it every day in an effort to carry on the prestigious butler family tradition, and especially to honour his father "Ronald Bottler Senior The Fifth", who had the noble privilege of serving the great "Master Reginald H. McDonald", also known as the inventor of the superbly popular and ever best-selling unicycle training wheels. During his off hours, Ronald enjoys sitting prostrate by the fireplace in his finest suit reading through his dated encyclopedia of rare South American Horned Slug species. In 2003, Ronald won second prize in the world-wide annual "Sir Pronunciation Championship" tournament for his 89.7% win over world-renowned Russian Butler "Boris Mikhailov" who came in at whopping 92.4% but was later expelled due to testing positive in speech enhancement drug tests. On a completely different note and due to numerous years of persistent frowning, Ronald's upper lip has dwindled into an almost non-existant flap of pale-colored skin, only vaguely noticeable during the occasional toothy and malicious snarl.

Please click here to be taken to the Ronald project page.

Base model in 3dsmax. Sculpting, texturing and displacement in ZBrush. Lighting and rendering with VRay 1.45.70 using global illumination and traditional lighting techniques. Composite in Photoshop.

-Richard]]> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:08:13 +0000