Over that, in addition to another feature, I worked on at least a dozen shots of the island and the house, some involving complex camera tracks and dollies. Two of the more involved shots involved a track along the entire beach with 270 degree camera pan and the establishing shot of the island.

It was a tremendous privilege to work on this project with the team at Kojo.

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The concept was premised on a slick car commercial with a telegenic young couple and sweeping vistas that suddenly goes horribly wrong.

Despite the tight turnaround of 3 days, this was a great job to work on and a privilege to work with Adam, Greg and Marty at Accordion.

Late in the afternoon I received a call from Rob of Airbag to perform some emergency surgery to a sausage, which was to feature in a TVC for AAMI Insurance.

The client had expressed concern that the item central to to the joke – a certain charred sausage – was, shall we say, a tad too phallic.  My task was to create a new charred sausage that had a pointier and less obviously phallic form. Job was received circa 2pm on a Friday and completed with rounds of feedback before 5.

Nice and easy, and Airbag’s client was extremely happy with the result.

Before (look away know if you’re offended by the shape of a sausage):

And after:

And here is the final TVC in all its glory:

Drone footage of a paper mill was used to create the base image for the matte. The perspective and horizon wer adjusted to match the foreground plate (featuring a CG elk and Norris on a rocky outcrop) and the matte was extended on the left to provide a 21:9 aspect ratio with room to spare. Lighting was tweaked so that the mill was backlit, hills and atmosphere were added as well as a new sky, with everything graded to match it.

The elk and ‘Chuck’ featured here merely are a slap-comp to determine the composition of the matte relative to the foreground action.

Here is the entire commercial.

The matte features at 0:48 seconds however it’s worthwhile watching the entire commercial.

Enjoy!

I also manually created a depth mask to provide greater control over the layers to the compositor.

Two of the three TVC’s featuring the matte have so far been released. Blink and you’ll miss it!

This video is a part of a demonstration that I created for my concept art and previsualisation class in the School of Design at RMIT University Melbourne.

These videos in total demonstrate a relatively simple and straightforward environment concept art workflow in students new to concept art from thumbnail iteration and selection, to a final, polished deliverable that involves the use of Blender for blocking out purposes before taking a completed render into Photoshop for completion.

The completed image is featured in my work portfolio on this site.