Over the past few years I’ve been working with these ridiculous birds, getting to perform against some great voice work from Sam Neill and Bryan Brown. Character animation by Mister Pitt for Blockhead.

Time for a fresh reel! (And a bit of a name tweak) A breakdown of all the projects below – but as you can see, there’s a been a lot of dancing and animals in the last few years!

• 00:00 – 00:12 – Rhian Sheehan, Little Sines. Music video 2013. Directed and animated by Mister Pitt, illustration by Kieran Rynhart.
• 00:12 – 00:31 – Steinlager, Tokyo Dry. TVC 2016. 3D Lead, including motion capture TD and rigging, character modelling and surfacing.
• 00:31 – 00:39 – Natural Gas (Aus), Dragon. TVC 2017. Creature animation by Mister Pitt.
• 00:39 – 00:42 – Co-Operative Bank, Crocodile. TVC 2015. Creature animation by Mister Pitt.
• 00:42 – 00:50 – Tip-Top, Goodness Grains. TVC 2012. Animation, rigging and design byMister Pitt.
• 00:50 – 00:59 – Cadbury, Freddo. TVC 2014. Character animation by Mister Pitt.
• 00:59 – 01:05 – The Impending Adorations, The Best Is Yet To Come. Music video 2014. Directed and animated by Mister Pitt.
• 01:05 – 01:10 – The Impending Adorations, When The Wind Blows. Music video 2015. Directed and animated by Mister Pitt.
• 01:11 – 01:25 – Immram, Dignity. Music Video 2012. Directed and animated by Mister Pitt.
• 01:25 – 01:30 – MIT, Trades. TVC 2012. Direction, design, animation by Mister Pitt.
• 01:30 – 01:39 – Quilton, Cupid. TVC 2016. Lead 3D, including motion capture TD, cloth TD, previs & look development.
• 01:39 – 01:51 – Air New Zealand, Buenos Aires. TVC 2017. Creature animation by Mister Pitt.
• 01:51 – 01:57 – Mount Franklin, Fairy Wren. TVC 2015. Creature animation by Mister Pitt.
• 01:57 – 02:02 – Disney, Shanghai. TVC 2015. Creature animation by Mister Pitt.
• 02:02 – 02:14 – Module, The Pieces Fit. Music video 2013. Directed and animated by Mister Pitt.

Quilton – Cupid from FINCH on Vimeo.

This has really been a year of dance. Huge amount of fun to create this one, it’s just so dang cute.

Directed by Alex Roberts, at Finch. 3D by redkidOne.

Joel Kefali – Steinlager ‘Tokyo Dry’ from Goodoil Films on Vimeo.

Anyone who knows me at all will get how this tvc covers pretty much everything I love!

Directed by Joel Kefali. Post-production at Palace. 3D by redkidOne & co.

Here’s a shiny new reel of work, concentrating on character generalist and animation direction work.

Breakdown:

• 00:00 – 00:14 – Rhian Sheehan, Little Sines. Music video 2013. Directed and animated by redkidOne, illustration by Kieran Rynhart.
• 00:14 – 00:22 – Cadbury, Freddo. TVC 2014. Character animation, rigging by redkidOne.
• 00:22 – 00:29 – Mount Franklin, Fairy Wren. TVC 2015. Creature animation by redkidOne.
• 00:29 – 00:38 – Co-Operative Bank, Crocodile. TVC 2015. Creature animation by redkidOne.
• 00:39 – 00:47 – Tip-Top, Goodness Grains. TVC 2012. Animation, rigging and design by redkidOne.
• 00:48 – 00:53 – Disney, Shanghai. TVC 2015. Creature animation by redkidOne.
• 0:54 – 1:00 – The Impending Adorations, The Best Is Yet To Come. Music video 2014. Directed and animated by redkidOne.
• 1:00 – 1:06 – The Impending Adorations, When The Wind Blows. Music video 2015. Directed and animated by redkidOne.
• 1:06 – 1:20 – Immram, Dignity. Music Video 2012. Directed and animated by redkidOne.
• 1:20 – 1:37 – Air New Zealand, Men In Black Safety Video. PSA 2015. Creature animation, rigging, texturing, rendering by redkidOne.
• 1:37 – 1:44 – Shapeshifter, Twin Galaxies. Music video 2010. Directed and animated by redkidOne.
• 1:44 – 1:56 – MIT, Trades. TVC 2012. Directed and animated by redkidOne.
• 1:56 – 2:10 – Module, The Pieces Fit. Music video 2013. Directed and animated by redkidOne.

Fun wee job via Beryl. Ironically spent the week of my birthday making hundreds of birthday candles, among other tasty things!

Hella lotta fun working on this one. Quite amazing to work with so many well-known properties – and getting to animate grumpy, cigar-smoking aliens is one of those things that reminds you that animation isn’t a real job. Sorry kids.

Now normally I just handle character work on these kinds of commercial projects, but for this I also looked after texturing, lighting and rendering all of the 3D assets. And this time I’m pretty pleased how they turned out.

Cheers to Beryl for bringing me onboard this ride.

The second of the supremely odd but hilarious Co-operative Bank TVCs via Blockhead. Another object lesson in ‘less-is-more”, which is strangely a lot harder than it seems.

This one was all about the less-is-more approach. Bryan needed to exude menace, but if you’ve ever seen a real croc, you know they don’t really move much.

Until they bite your arm off.

Made with the kids at Blockhead.

Motion graphics reel for 2014.