The Lion's Den

This was an opener for a special on Brisbane's local AFL team 'The Lions'. I think it was broadcast nationally a few months back on the 7 network.

Now, I'm not much of a sports fan and I know absolutely nothing about AFL. Luckily my son started playing footy this year so (being the enthusiastic dad) I've had a crash course on the ins and outs of Australian Rules.

Can't say I'm any closer to understanding it...

The Great....Escapes.

Here's a job I did late last year. It was an opener as well as some graphics for Discovery's 'Animal Planet'. The basic premise was a series of documentary episodes showing mainly security camera footage of different animals making a break for it.

It seemed to have a fairly light-hearted approach at its core so I thought some cute 2D animation might be appropriate.

It was real fun to do. The producers were great to work with. I pretty much created it all in After Effects. Man, AE really is quite a cool tool for doing this sort of 'whacky' 2D animated stuff. I really want to do more of this.

Moreton Region TVCs

A couple of vids from me. Oops, once again, I've been MIA on this blog. The first vid here is one of a number of TVCs my company did for a local council. What was great about this project was that we extensively story boarded the ads knowing that the concept had to pass the approval process of a twelve seat council. Amazingly it all went really well with very little problems. The floating bits of the logo were animated in Lightwave and comped in After Effects.

This was done as an opener to one of the many Corporate DVDs we my company has produced Queensland Rail.

Colorado

More After Effects fun. Basically I as given a bunch of stills of shoes and a one day deadline to produce two TVCs. This was the the result.

Ipswich City Council

This is one of a series of TVCs advertising the virtues of the the city of Ipswich.
They were all completed entirely in After Effects. I do so love that program!!

Wet, wet, wet.

Offshore Superboats Opener from Pete Mullins on Vimeo.

Here on the eastern seaboard of Australia it has now rained constantly for over two months. I live in what used to be known as the 'Sunshine State'. Pretty soon we'll all have to start using boats instead of cars to get around.

Ok, that was a really dumb attempt to make this latest post relevant in any way...

I did the graphics for this show over a year ago now. I was happy with the way I intergrated 3D from Maya into After Effects. I love the way you can directly import 3D information from Maya into AE via the .ma file extension. At the time I think I was only just exploring the possibilties, now it's standard practice for me.