Short Film Edit/FX

AUDIO WARNING: The following video does have an audio component, so be mindful of your speaker volume level before you press play! https://vimeo.com/895563622 Editing and Visual Effects Sample: FX accomplished using Apple Motion, Blender, & Final Cut Pro.

Commercial Edit/FX

AUDIO WARNING: The following video does have an audio component, so be mindful of your speaker volume level before you press play! https://vimeo.com/511402357 Edited in Final Cut Pro, Visual FX courtesy of blender’s compositor.  The talking head portion of the raw footage had a noticeable blemish on the speaker’s forehead. This was removed by using […]

Angel Wings

http://jackmckown.com/storage/2024/05/wings.mov The wings were created and animated in blender, using a simple animation spine rig, attached to the plane of the wing image. Motion blur and contextual blurring was added in compositing.

Screen Track/Replacement

http://jackmckown.com/storage/2024/05/alexa.mov The animation was created using Apple Motion and the audio-waveform analysis behavior modifier, and then screen replacement and motion tracking was done in blender. 

Lightsaber Effect

http://jackmckown.com/storage/2024/05/jedi.mov This effect was created using blender, the 3d Cylinder was given an emission shader, and then motion tracking was applied to the original plastic lightsaber. Once tracking was cleaned up, the top and bottom of the cylinder were attached to the trackers, and voilà! A little masking and motion blur, and here’s the final […]