Blend Opening Titles – Handel Eugene

I had the pleasure to work with Gunner Studios on the opening Titles for Blend Fest 2019.

I got the opportunity to work on a couple of shots for the titles but my primary responsibility was to figure out the Maya to C4D character animation pipeline. We took the Blend Fest Monster which was first animated in Maya & then brought it into Cinema through a streamlined alembic workflow. The challenging task on this project was for me to come up with a Cinema 4D facial rig that seamlessly attached to the Maya character animations.

Directed by Gunner

Original Score & Sound Design: Ambrose Yu

Design & Illustration: Marcus Bakke, Ian Sigmon, Rachel Reid, Andy Most, James Noellert
Conceptual Illustration: Slawek Fedorczuk, James Noellert, Marcus Bakke

2D Animation: Ian Sigmon, Nick Parente, Dan Stack, Evan Kempinski

Title Animation: Jordan Scott
Cel Animation: Rachel Reid, Andy Most, Marcus Bakke

3D Animation: Doug Alberts, Marcus Bakke, Nick Forshee, John Hughes, Collin Leix, Handel Eugene, Nick Parente

3D Rigging: Chris Nelder, Nick Forshee, Marcus Bakke, Handel Eugene

3D Character Animation: Rachel Reid, Doug Ablerts, John Hughes, Marcus Bakke, Nick Forshee, Handel Eugene

3D modeling: Marcus Bakke, Nick Forshee, Billy Chitkin, Handel Eugene, Maritza Louis

VR Modeling: Collin Leix, Marcus Bakke, Nick Forshee

Compositing: Ian Sigmon, John Hughes, Collin Leix, Marcus Bakke, Nick Forshee, Andy Most

Render Wrangler: Todd Hersey

Produced By: Brandon Delis

In addition to working on the titles, I had the real privilege of not only attending Blend Fest but having the incredibly high honor to speak at Blend Fest this past year. Such a humbling experience and one of the highlights of my career. Above is a recording of my talk from the conference.