Demo Reel Shot Breakdown
Jason Tierney
Fall '11
www.tierfx.com
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Shot 1 - Email Santa
All Work
Maya
Worked as an indepedent animator to create this animation for an interactive website
Created all elements in this scene
Shot 2 - Modeling – “Café Du Destin”
Generalist
Maya
Modeled, Rigged, and Textured Paper Airplane
Shot 3 - 3D clock model – “Café Du Destin”
Generalist - Large Group Project
Maya
Modeling, UVs and Texturing for Paper airplane and Submarine
Maya Hair system used for the Feather, dynamically reacts and moves
Rigging for the feather including bend controls
Modeled Clock
Expression used to make the hands move naturally
Modeled and animated gears driven with expressions, the gears move automatically
Setup the Dynamic rig for the hair using hair curve driven IK handles
Shot 4 - Music Visualization Piece
All Work
Maya
Project for a local musician
Piece elements timed to music
Shave & a Haircut Instancing
Shot 5 - Flicker
All Work
Maya, Zbrush
Created a bird based on a Flicker
Fully rigged and posable
Modeling, Texturing, Lighting
Shot 6 - Email Santa
All Work
Maya
Shot 7 -“The Pig” Final Scenes
Group project, Dynamics Specialist
Maya
Shot 1
Set up nCloth Curtains, Clouds dropping
Shot 2
Set up nCloth 'stage flames' on Hut
Shot 3
Set up nCloth simulation for dropping banners
Animated Cloth movement as character flys by it
Shot 8 -"Kin Dza Dza"
All Work
After Effects
Composited pre-existing footage from the film “Kin Dza Dza”
Created and animated background imagery
Rotoscoped to insert background imagery
Shot 9 - "Honeybat"
All Work
Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop
Modeling in Maya, Zbrush
Textures in Photoshop, Zbrush
Shave & a Haircut fur
Shot 10 - "Screamcat"
All Work
Maya, After Effects
Modeling, Animation, Rigging, Textures
Shave and a haircut fur
Live action filmed background, Boston, MA
After Effects compositing
Shot 11 - Music Visualization Piece
All work - See Above
Shot 12 - “Kin Dza Dza"
All work - See Above
Shot 13 - "The Pig"
Animated dropping clouds, shaking nCloth curtains
Final name sequence
“Screamcat” Clip, All work