Monday, November 15, 2010

Previs

Untitled from JAMES CAMACHO on Vimeo.


In this short animation I created a 3d logo from an illustrator file provided by a client. I used Zaxwerks Pro Animator with After Effects to create the logo. This plug in works great and the lighting and camera techniques are straight forward and lets you have full control.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Desert Intro

desert from JAMES CAMACHO on Vimeo.




This clip was created for a friend of mine who wanted a unique intro for his demo reel. He is an editor, so he had a specific idea in mind. After doing some story boarding, I created the animation of the 35mm film strip in After Effects by duplicating them a bunch of times and sticking them together end to end to create a long strip. I used a photo I found online that was taken in death valley. I used Photoshop to erase some of the rocks that were blocking the place where the film strip comes from the horizon. Finally, I used an adjustment layer to do the day to night transition and had a prekeyed clipped for the dust coming at the camera.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Comic Book effects

Heat Vision from JAMES CAMACHO on Vimeo.



In these three projects I created some bullet bounce and muzzle flash effects for a guy who creates comic book shorts for his website. In the first one, I rotoscoped and colorized the gun to simulate it heating up. All effects were done in After Effects.

Bullet bounce from JAMES CAMACHO on Vimeo.



In this one, I combined some color correction with some elements from action movie essentials to create the bullet bounce. The sound fx were from my own library of sound fx.

Muzzle Flash from JAMES CAMACHO on Vimeo.



This video has multiple effects including a flying bullet and muzzle flash. With the combination of motion blur and some color correction, the action of the gun moving with the actor was more believable.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Football anyone?

I created this with some basic masks of my face and placed my eyes and mouth on a football. I used Magic Bullet Looks for the color correction. Overall it was a quick and fun project. You would be surprised at what you can learn from talking to yourself in a public park.

Football season yet? from JAMES CAMACHO on Vimeo.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Zoom Rental Car

Zoom Rental Car rough demo from JAMES CAMACHO on Vimeo.



I used After Effects to create all the animations and transitions within this promo. I used Maya to create the Zoom logo from a Illustrator file. There are two different logos shown, the red and blue one and the silver logo. With the exception of the first couple of seconds of the video, all the actors were shot on a green screen. I keyed out the green and added elements such as a sliding glass door and an office. The end was my favorite part because I wanted to create the feeling of a camera spiraling into the sky.

Friday, April 2, 2010

NFL DRAFT

Nfl Draft Promo from JAMES CAMACHO on Vimeo.

I created this video with NFL Network in mind. I always see sleek and quick graphics on that channel. I am a huge football fan, so this was especially fun for me. I created the grass in Maya, for those who like to model. All the other effects were created in After Effects including the NFL shield at the end. Sure target is one of my favorite things I use when animating motion graphics or text. I also picked out the music from a collection I have which is used in original NFL films. I could have made this video longer, but I wanted to make it a 30 second spot which would fit in a television time slot.