Colin Hess | Online Work + Play Archive
Show Reel. 2007
Show Reel 2007
Colin Hess
Design, Art Direction, Maya / AFX Animation
347.417.4471
colin@gigxl.com
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* Coke Light. Commercial Pitch
Coke Light
Design, Art Direction
2008
Worked with Daniel Piwowarczyk of Lobo on this pitch for Coke Light. Created a set of boards focused on Coke's inner "sparkle". A fun piece to work on utilizing loads of sparkle particle elements.
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* E45. Commercial
E45
Design, Art Direction
2007
Style Frames for Superfad doing a spot for E45 -- code for shampoo. Look had to sit somewhere between the photo-real and a stylized graphic.
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* The Science Community Systems Inc.. Personal Print
The Science Community Systems Inc.
Digital Print
2007
Two more prints expressing my enthusiasm for the 1960's, modern science, and HyperText Mark-up Language. Prints are 24" x 36"
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* Organic Algorithms. Personal: Digital Print Series
Organic Algorithms
Digital Print
2007
An experiment in the world of Joshua Davis. Studying his use of color and shape, I created this set of prints trying to understand how he goes about his image making process. He certainly the master of the art.
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Motorola Q. Commercial Pitch
Motorola Q
Design, Art Direction
2006
Design created for Tronic Studio for the new Motorola Q. Objectives were to make the Q as mysterious and sexy as possible until the last minute where its huge screen reveals itself to us using a mere 11.5 mm of pocket space.
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Parabolic. Personal: Digital Print Series
Parabolic
Digital Print
2006
Created this set of images with the minimal in mind. Used Maya particles to generate the helix shapes. Love what can be done in Maya with particles...so many ways to break your machine.
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Bubbly. Personal: Digital Print
Bubbly
Digital Print
2004
Copy, Scale and Paste. Pretty much it as far as this one is concerned. I like collections of round things.
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BloodSuckers. Sci Fi Original Style Frames
BloodSuckers
Design, Art Direction
2005
Designs created for UVPhactory for SciFi channel's totally awesome original movies. Not quite as good as "Mansquito" Bloodsuckers, incidently not too far of a departure, a movie about raging blood thirsty vampires.
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GE Air Taxi. Corporate Video Style Frames
GE Air Taxi
Design, Art Direction
2004
Style frames created for UVPhactory for GE. GE creating a new engine for executive jets. Is there anything in this world that doesn't have a little GE on it?
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Digital Media Bar. Personal: Architectural Visualization
Digital Media Bar
Architectural Visualization
2005
Designed a space specific to visualizing audio in real-time for unique audio-visual performances. 2 Floors, 2 bars, excellent acoustics and great visuals. Who wants to help me make it?
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Specular Technicolor Experience 0912. Personal: Digital Print
Specular Technicolor Experience 0912
Digital Print
2004
Created 3 panels 6' x 6' mounted on wood. I lost the hardcopy for the third...and two remain. Images are a combination of digital imaging, colored pencil, marker and paint.
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Evergreen and the Winnebego. Personal: Digital Print
Astro Dancer. Personal: 2 Color Lithograph
Space + Science +Trucks. Personal: Monoprint Series
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* The Kite Runner. Film Title
The Kite Runner
Animation, Maya, Design
2007
Was very excited when Mk12 asked me to be apart of their team for The Kite Runner. Spent a good month working out Ben Radatz's beautifully designed custom type faces for the title sequence. An Intensive process between softwares was developed in order to animate the calligraphy appropraitly.
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* The Pied Piper. Music Video
The Pied Piper
Maya Animation
2007
Music Video for Yoriyos, the stage name of Muhammad Islam, that is the son Yusuf Islam, that is Cat Stevens. The Pied Piper is featured on his debut album, entitled Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee and released on his own record label.
Director: Ron Winter & Jon Watts
Illustrations: Katy Horan
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* Vh1 Black History Month. Network Promo
Vh1 Black History Month
Direction | Design | Animation
2007
Worked on a series of spots for VH1's Black History month with fellow designer Mitch Paone. Spots were directed, designed and animated for UVPhactory.
Production: UVphactory
Creative Director: Alex Moors
Executive Producer: Brain Welsh
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Renault Modus. Commercial
Renault Modus
Design | Animation
2006
Worked with an awesomely talented team on this spot for the Renault Modus directed by Ben Radatz of Mk12. Most of this project was a blur but I seem to remember a lot of office karaoke jamming, Schwarzenegger sound boards, and Lenny Williams.
Director: Ben Radatz Mk12
Producer: Rosali Concepcion
Cooridinator: Michael Kaufman
Maya Artist: Ron Winter
Animator: Molly Schwartz
Animator: Sean Donnelly
Designer: Mitch Paone
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MTV Made My School Year. Network Promo
MTV Made My School Year
Design | Direction | Animation
2005
Created this spot while at UVPhactory working under the creative direction of Alex Moors. Established the initial design direction while working closely with Sean Donnelly and Bashir Hamid through the animation process.
Production: UVPhactory
Creative Director: Alex Moors
Producer: Brian Welsh
Animator: Sean Donnelly
Animator: Bashir Hamid
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Robot. Personal: 3D Character Design
Robot
Design | Maya
2004
Designed, Modeled, Rigged and Animated this robot for my short "Inside Out".
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Scent of a Robot. Music Video
Scent of a Robot
Design
2005
The UVPhactory creative team responsible for the live action shoot and the remarkable animation included:
Principle: Scott Sindorf
Principle: Damijan Saccio
Creative Director: Alexandre Moors
Senior Producer Brian Welsh
Director of Photography: Nick Tramantano
Senior Designer/3D Animator/Compositor: Jake Slutsky
Lead Character Animatior: Ryan Bradley
Designer/3D Animator/Compositor: Bashir Hamid
Editor: Damien Baskette
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Cubed. Personal: Short Film
Frankenstien. USA Original Movie
Frankenstien
Maya | Animation
2004
Created Custom 3D Typography for USA's Orginal Movie "Frankenstien". Directed and Produced by Verb.
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Swatch. Commercial
Swatch
Design,Animation
2005
Designed and animated these spots for Swatch under the creative direction of UVPhactory's Alex Moors.
Production: UVPhactory
Creative Director: Alex Moors
Producer: Brain Welsh
3D Animator: Ryan Bradley
3D Animator/Compositor: Bashir Hamid
3D Animator/Compositor: Jake Slutsky
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Remote Sensory Input Pod. Personal: 3D Character Design
Remote Sensory Input Pod
Design | Maya
2004
Designed, Modeled, Rigged and Animated this robot for my short "Inside Out".
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Inside Out. Personal: Short Film
Sci Fi Master Blasters. Television Series Open
Sci Fi Master Blasters
Concept | Design | Animation
2005
Designed and animated this show open for SciFi Channel. Borrowed heavily from the posters of the Constructivist period and incorporated many familiar elements into the design.
Production: UVPhactory
Creative Director: Alex Moors
Producer: Brain Welsh
3D Animator: Ryan Bradley
3D Animator/Compositor: Bashir Hamid
3D Animator/Compositor: Jake Slutsky
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A/V Lab
* Plasticity 03. Personal: Audio Visual Collaboration with Plasticity
Plasticity 07. Personal: Audio Visual Collaboration with Plasticity
Mingus I. Personal: Audio Visual
Mingus I
Audio Visualization
Realtime Audio Visual Experiment
Created using Onadime
2003
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Mingus II. Personal: Audio Visual
Mingus II
Audio Visualization
Realtime Audio Visual Experiment
Created using Onadime
2003
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About. Bio
Colin Hess is a scribbler. Finds a fondness with spicy food and mustard. Sometimes showers. Sometimes does not -- Depends on the state of things around him. Believes someone else has produced every original idea he has ever had immediately after he's finished thinking about it. He grew up in Kansas City, a product of suburbia and with his extraneous amounts of spare time grew a fascination towards digital mediums because of there abilities to augment reality. Classically trained on the piano and trumpet, Colin remains passionate about music with a deep interest in its visual represention. He hopes that one day a floating plasama-like substance will exist allowing him to create and display a visual controlled through music. He currently lives and works in NYC where he has served clients such as Pepsi, Dell, Nintendo, Motorola, Swatch, HBO, SciFi, GE, MTV, USA, Renault, and CBS.
Colin Hess
Design, Art Direction, Maya / AFX Animation
347.417.4471
colin@gigxl.com
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