works tagged with motiontheory
Gatorade - Inside Crosby (2007)
For this rich scene of what's going on inside an athlete's head, Mark Kudsi had me writing C++ code to generate slowly growing neurons into a stretched screen 'topiary'. An adhoc rendering cluster was used to quickly render random seeded versions as we evolved the style into the fantasy vision ...
Buick - Behind The Beauty (2010)
For this project, we tried a handful of intelligent particle techniques. One of the approaches was to have me write a renderable simulator in OpenFrameworks that could fuse our specific mix of generative diagrams, numbers, shapes, and line-art into a magical fantasy breeze. The app ...
IBM Data Baby (2010)
This project required a lot of research demo programs. The job holds the new record for most code artists (8) hired on one MTh job. Our apps began receiving animated curves from maya, we introduced a new speed-optimized OBJ sequence file format, and we continued to accumulate maya ex...
Black Eyed Peas: Boom Boom Pow (2009)
Code was written at Motion Theory to generate content and effects in the Black Eyed Peas' Boom Boom Pow video. Amongst this highly collaborative effort were two other code artists: Keith Pasko and Ryan Alexander. After the video was finished, Keith and I went on to collaborate again ...
HP Paulo Coelho (2007)
For Paulo, finger trails of personal photos dissipate like horse hair underwater. My C++ JImage object is born - something that allows pixel addressing that can also update its display list cached textured unit rect. I later based a hair style on this aesthetic. It was a pleasure to collaborate on ...
Nike 'One' (2006)
Motion Theory's workflow of the Nike 'One' commercials did not just benefit from an applet programmed by one of the team members. This time, the core workflow became a team of four visual programmers risking carpel tunnel to generate a diversity of floating engineering graphics using every trick in...
Bud Select - Just a Game (2007)
For this superbowl spot, I had another amazing collaborative coding experience with Gabe Dunne. The approach was different in high level regards. Our generative renders were being used as concept for other artists to flesh out into several shots and variations. We were also coasting on a sufficient...
Modest Mouse Dashboard (2007)
This music video turned out to be a unique family effort, rewarding in the end. A couple of the island shots feature the pop celeb's face rendered by our custom after effects plugin, Pixel F. Meanwhile indoors, Gabriel takes a simple springy spider web I had set up and activates it artistically usi...