Jake
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Animation Demo Reel 2010
Feb 22nd
This is a short montage of our animations which showcases our style and capabilities.
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BlueDot regional TV ad 2010: Home Energy Checkup
Feb 22nd
Here’s a TV spot for a local plumbing company . Aloe Design created all the character animation, particle effects, sound effects and compositing.
Aloe Design Animation on PBS NOVA
Oct 12th
3D animation by Aloe Design is featured in the NOVA episode Hubble’s Amazing Rescue premiering on October 13th, 2009. Catch it on PBS or get the DVD!
Watch a 3 minute promo on YouTube
“After years of training, the astronauts on the 2009 Hubble mission made it look easy, but repairing the Space Telescope involved five long, risky spacewalks and intricate repairs never before attempted in space.”
Clean ? Coal
Jul 8th
The coal industry has spent millions of dollars on ad campaigns trying to change Americans’ perceptions over dirty coal. The ads have attempted to whitewash, or “greenwash,” coal using the oxymoron “clean” for one of the greatest source of pollution of our air, water and land.
Animated to the tune “Honestly Sincere,” this video shows a chunk of Coal trying to clean up his image by covering himself with green paint, but everywhere he goes he wreaks havoc: literally leaving carbon footprints, exuding coal dust, dirtying streams, heating up the atmosphere, causing air pollution, and in the end, destroying wildlife, and decimating an entire mountain top. There is nothing about Coal that is clean- and the coal industries’ ads are anything but “Honestly Sincere.”
Find out more about coal pollution at NotCleanCoal.com
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Construction Accident Recreation
Apr 29th
This animation was created by Aloe Design for court case use. The video depicts a freshly set concrete structure having structural failure under its own weight. The structure had “crane lift anchors” placed too close to the edge of the structure (where it shows 6.5″ mark). This caused the concrete to break when too much load was placed on the anchors. It then fell and damaged the operator. The concrete was animated by a custom physics simulation which was created to match eyewitness accounts.
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How to Add Motion Blur to your 3D Animation in Post Production by Creating 2D Motion Vectors in Maya
Dec 15th
This is a four-part tutorial about adding motion blur to a Maya render by first creating a 2D motion vector sequence and then using it with ReelSmart Motion Blur in post production. I’ll be covering Maya 2009’s 2D motion vector pass as well as installation and use of the lm_2DMV shader for earlier Maya versions. Once this technique is part of your pipeline, it can be a tremendous time saver compared with creating (and waiting for) motion blur from within Maya. It also provides the flexibility of applying any amount of motion blur without having to re-render. More >
Compositing Maya 2009 Render Passes with After Effects
Nov 18th
I’ve been experimenting with Maya 2009’s Mental Ray Render Passes feature. It’s intended to easily allow separation of different elements of the render into separate images. An easy example would be separating the diffuse light from the shadow. In practice it seems to be way more finicky ( or broken) than it ought to be. After many trials I’ve developed a workflow via After Effects that successfully composites all my passes so that they just about match the default composite render. More >
Missile Defense Agency Kiosk
Oct 23rd
Aloe Design Collaborated with TMP Worldwide to bring together a dynamic interactive kiosk and website which allows the user to move through a fictional rendition of the MDA headquarters in Alabama and learn about various job functions. Here are a couple snippets from the non-interactive portions.
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NASA Podcasts
Oct 17th
NASA has been using many of our 3D animations in their latest podcasts.
Watch an Example
NASA Hubble Service Mission 4
May 23rd
These HD animations depict the shuttle Atlantis docked with the Hubble for servicing, as well as the Hubble in orbit. These were created for NASA’s media library for use in various educational and promotional programs.
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