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For the second year in a row Metro Productions’ sound designer Curtis Brown has been asked by the Richmond International Film Festival to head up the creation of a short opening video to kick off each RIFF screening. And I helped make it!
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I used to make graphics and I still do. Some are old and some are new. Either way they’re here for you. Hip hip hooray and whoop-de-doo!
Though I am not personally a fan of CVT transmissions and would never own a vehicle that used one, I do find them to be a fascinatingfeat of mechanical engineering. pretty neat little xPresso rig set up to make the gears function properly.
This has been a controversial design concept, and I’m happy that Darpa chose Joe Ryan and I to create the mockup animation that was used to present and win a contract for several million dollars to develop this vehicle.
It’s hard to explain the benefits of a piece of engineering this large without showing what goes on inside. That’s exactly what I helped with. AMF provided some super complex CAD files that I was able to convert and bring into my 3D land. Then I turned it all into an interactive Android app for use at a trade show.
Michel Gondry once said, “I chose quantity over quality, because quantity lasts and quality fades.”
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This video explains how a couple big pieces of metal in your engine compartment make it so your car can go different speeds. I modeled everything except the shell, and rigged it up in Cinema 4D.
If you’d like to see a tutorial of the rigging and animation techniques, send me a message under contact .
It completely blows my mind that manual transmissions’ gears stay meshed and spinning together at all times, and that they are engaged and disengaged with a collar driven by the shift lever. I just had to visualize it. Wanna see?
