Coming Clean trailer design

I've recently been working on a series of animations for the feature documentary Coming Clean, which has recently been picked up by the New York Film Festival which required some extra design work for a promotional trailer. I pushed around a variety of 3D and 2D design solutions to try and capture a gritty/grainy feel to fit the mood of the film (crack addiction) and match the poster design. The 3D wasn't quite giving me what was needed, so I turned to a Canon 5D mk II, a macro lens and some chicken salt for a practical solution.

Coming Clean Official Trailer from Jason Boyer on Vimeo.

painterly feeling using static motion blur

Recently while working on an independent feature film, I was called upon to create a heaven type effect integrating green screen elements with a naturalistic painted feel. While researching techniques I stumbled across a Siggraph paper from years ago creating a stroke technique using motion blur, I adapted this idea to work in Maya by distorting objects in between frames with motion blur and sampling at a higher rate. This gives the look of the motion blur samples being frozen in time in 3D space, giving a 3D paintstroke feel. Having the green screen footage at Red 4k didn't hurt either.

Housemeister - In Order to Dance

Animation and Compositing - CTRL-Labs/Faune Brooklyn

Papershow

VFX supervision and compositing

for CAID productions, Brooklyn

Media Lounge Interactive Installation

MEDIA LOUNGE: APRIL 10th

FEATURED ARTISTS:
Michael Glen (www.michaelglen.net)
Kanwaljeet Singh (www.kanwaljeetsingh.com)
Ruby Gold
Avery McCarthy (averymccarthy.com)
Matt Gliva
Jaclyn Perrelli
Andrew Scoville
Ellie Famutimi
Chris Smith
Eliza Laytner
TheConsciousness
Max Nova (www.coyotenova.com)
Justina Flash (Myspace)
Blue and Red 3D Spectacular (YouTube)
Busted Muffin Productions (Review)

Arabian Nights

Director and Editor - Michael R Mazur
Compositors - Michael R Mazur and Michael Glen
3-D Animation - Michael Glen

The video was shot at The American Movie Company in NYC and was composited in house using Final Cut Pro, After Effects CS4, Maya, and Z-Brush.

Latte?

Latte? from Michael glen on Vimeo.

Though it went out about a month ago, i thought it would be a good idea to post a record of my graduate project here.

Rather than write a description, I'm going to quote Justin from Motionographer.com here

"For Michael Glen’s final project in animation and interactive media at RMIT University Australia, he developed a unique and quirky look for his short film, “Latte?”

The narrative is a surreal tale of competition from the dawn of capitalism in the imagined Eastern European town of Annexia. The Borat-like pidgin English of the film’s stars and their obsession with outdated modes of “stylings” add to its weirdly charming brand of humor.

The credit sequence at the film’s conclusion gives you a little peek at the technique Michael used to create his characters."