The best part about making a new reel is, of course, making a ridiculously pretentious and over the top intro. One that takes up half the showreel and poorly attempts to overshadow everything else. Setting that as the benchmark and wanting to try out a new workflow in moi3d I created this.
Almost all the geometry was nurbs modeled in Moi 3D, exported to Cinema 4d and rendered in Octane.
Despite obvious limitations (the topology is terrible and you can't really uv or deform it), It's really fast to create and work with plus the rendered version looks as good as it would if you subdivision modelled it - but a lot less time consuming.
You can check out the final version here
99 Frames is a competition run for the Cinema 4D community. The idea to create three seconds of animation. All submissions are then combined to form one final piece.
This year I was asked to create a trailer to build up this 2015's competition. The result is this short, following these little robot dudes on their journey to try & create their own 99 frame entry.
See the bottom for the making of
Client: 99Frames
Design & Animation: Rich Nosworthy
Sound Design: Sonosanctus
Working with Sparrow Studios, we created this spec spot for Google Cardboard. I worked on the camera animation and much of the scene animation to link all the styleframes into the long continuous shots, that make up the final spot.
Client: Sparrow Studios
Creative Director: Stacie Plassche
3D Design & Styleframes: Matt Frodsham
Animation: Rich Nosworthy, Matt Frodsham, Franz Ferdinand Kubin
The annual Sydney Vivid Festival is always a spectacular event, with the main attraction being the transformation of Sydney opera house via projection mapping.
It was a real privilege to be brought on board by Ash Bolland, Luxx.tv and Spinifex to help bring this year's theme, Audio Creatures, to life.
My role was initially modelling / texturing of 4 of the creatures from Ash's concept artwork. From then I continued to rig, light and animate the final two characters for the end of the show. A mix of traditional poly modelling techiniques mixed with cinema4d's mograph module, was used to give these creature forms both faithful to Bolland's design yet flexible enough for detailed animation.
Even better was having sound design for this year by legendary musician Amon Tobin.
Photo Credits: Tim Clapham & Daniel Boud.
Clients: Destination NSW & Sydney Opera House
Interrogate Director: Ash Bolland
Interrogate Executive Producer: Tara Riddell
Audio: Amon Tobin
Interrogate Director: Ash Bolland
Interrogate Executive Producer: Tara Riddell
Audio: Amon Tobin
Sound FX: Marcus Longfoot – Full Circle Audio
Spinifex Managing Director: Cyril de Baecque
Spinifex Creative Director: Jason French
Luxx Creative Director: Tim Clapham
2D / 3D Artists: Tim Clapham, Mike Tosetto, Dan Braga, Alex Barnet, Nejc Polovsak, Rich Nosworthy, Will Skinner, Duncan Dix, Roy Christian, Pepin Portingale, Nicholas Hunter, Marcus Coblyn.
I was part of the creative team for the 2016 Adobe Max Opener. With a huge resolution (15.5K x 2.6K) to design for, we created the animation that was to be mapped onto this interesting and angular designed stage.
I was responsible for the following:
Opening lights sequence (0:00 - 0:18)
Architectural transform shot (0:18 - 0:24)
Hair Shot (0:24 - 0:28)
Mirror Face Shot (0:32 - 0:42)
Bending Desert Shot (1:28 - 1:32)
Interior Kite Lighting (1:39 - 1:42)
Production Studio: Pretty Damn Sweet
Directors: Rick Sebeck & Stephen Gifford
Client: Adobe
Agency: PIX PRODUCTIONS
Producer: Jefferson Curry
Adobe Executive Creative Producer: Nicole Williams
Adobe Creative Director: Joe Buchwald
Creative Director: James Kern
Art Directors: Amy DiLorenzo, Stephen Gifford
Animators: Amy DiLorenzo, Dan Gauthier, Stephen Gifford
3D Animators: Mitch Wishart, Joel Dubin, Rich Nosworthy, Dominic Faraway, Jeff Briant, Brett Morris, Rick Sebeck
Technical Director: Rick Sebeck
Editor: Stephen Gifford
Editorial Support: Steve Chandler
Music: “Joker and the Thief” by Wolfmother
Audio Mix: Dan Chase
Small personal modelling project, recreating the OP-1 Synth by teenage engineering. Modelled in Cinema4d and rendered in Redshift
I was asked to create one of the many motion pieces for the opening of Pause Fest 2014 in Melbourne. The theme of the festival was 'connected', and was a fun project to explore ideas along side collaboration with Sonosanctus who outdid himself on the sound design.
Airspace - Based on the theme of the creative community, as we travel through our differing ideas and inspiration together. Each interaction shapes and shifts the overall result, but the hope of creating something new and unique gives us reason to keep doing what we do. And of course who doesn't like a levitating giant squid monster?
Client: PauseFest
Direction & Animation: Rich Nosworthy
Sound Design: Sonosanctus
I had the pleasure of working with Thomas Traum as part of their commission to showcase Victorinox's Fall/Winter 2016 Campaign at the Swiss Institute for New York Fashion Week. I created both the swiss army knife and watch sequences for part of their multi-screen projection.
See their full project page here
Client: Victorinox
Studio: Thomas Traum
Lighting & Animation: Rich Nosworthy
Watch Model: Joe Myers
It's not everyday you are given free reign to just create something cool. But that was the brief for this commission for School of Motion & Soundsnap. They wanted a short motion piece for a sound design competition they were about to launch. Something mechanical with lots of moving parts to provide space for the entrants to design a rich sound bed.
The sound design is from one of the contest winners Chad Wixom.
Client: Soundsnap / School of Motion
Direction & Animation: Rich Nosworthy
Sound Design: Chad Wixom
Short self initiated project created whilst exploring octane renderer & x-particles.
Design & Animation: Rich Nosworthy
Sound Design: sonosanctus
Small selection of ongoing images from my rendering tumblr page. What originally started as a daily exercise to improve my design skills is now a testing bed for new ideas. See the Labs page for more.
Short little animation created as my part of Auckland's Adobe Round Trip group project
Working with Tanmay Desai, I created this motion wallpaper for the backdrop of Creative Connect's stall at this years Semi-Permanent conference.
I also created 3D brand imagery for their entry to New Zealand's Best Awards.
Client: Creative Connect
Creative Director/Design Director: Tanmay Desai
3D Design & Animation: Rich Nosworthy
Titles created for MTV + 1 New Zealand.
Client: MTV
Design & Animation: Rich Nosworthy
Fun personal project testing cinema 4d dynamics and a 20 foot vert ramp
Design & Animation: Rich Nosworthy
Sound Design: Sonosanctus
Inspired by 'Between Bears', we went low polygon to craft this music video for the Adults.
Client: The Adults
Director: Luke Sharpe
Look Dev, Design & 3D: Rich Nosworthy
Short experimental piece created with cinema 4d dynamics and vray.
This was my entry that won the 99 frames competition back in 2013. A lot of bodypaint texturing and layering up of animation in Cinema 4D made for a fun but short 3 second piece.
Sound Design: Sonosanctus
