CHRIS CHISHOLM

Executive Creative Director, SVP

L.I.O.N. – Management and ROI

Company overview app to monitor the profitability of each location, department, and staff

Track tasks of each employee, department, and project to compare with management/peer feedback post mortem. The nexus connects to Salesforce to monetize findings. The system is scalable for multiple locations world-wide.

AVATAR BUILDER – HTML 5 – Autodesk Maya and Motionbuilder implementation. – Client facing avatar builder for advertising previs. Clients login to virtual cast their actors for ads. Choose an age, body type, face, hair, eyes, clothes and accesories. A full 3d character is built and ready for animation.

Asset management – Artist Efficiency Tools

These tools serve 3 purposes, remove artists reduncey, safe guard versions, macro lengthy procedures within apps – Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Autodesk Motionbuilder, Autodesk Maya, Vicon Motion capture, Custom Facial motion capture, 2D and 3D

SureShot – After Effects – PYTHON

Automatic compositing from 3D renders

Automatic render updating

Cameras and Nulls /import/export. – Unreal/Maya/Motionbuilder/Blender

SureShot – Motionbuilder – PYTHON – Autodesk Motionbuilder – SDK

  • Remove the need for artists to spend time browsing the server for files.
  • Confidently save files with full proof versioning,
  • automatic naming conventions.
  • Assets can move in and out of a file without leaving ghost nodes astray.
  • Custom film tools for cameras, lights, props, stand-ins are at the ready.
  • Animation tracks are automatically created upon avatar import.
  • Import/export cameras to/from Unreal/Maya/Aftereffects/Blender

Motionbuilder Render layers

  • Custom built lighting/shading/rendering interface
  • These passes get automatically imported into after effects for compositing

Vicon motion capture clips manager

  • While a shoot is in progress clips appear properly in the job assigned
  • Cleaned and ready to import onto avatar of choice.
  • Preview action clip.

Photoshop – SureShot

  • Save multiple file formats and sizes simultaneously into all the proper locations on server for other scripts to build avatars
  • Texures are pulled automatically for auto avatar builder.
  • .PSD Versioning and optimization – LOD
  • Layer management – import/export premade aging and stressing of clothing and facial features, wrinkles etc.