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Works in Progress

I will be adding many clips to this area over time until I have enough good animations to put into a new demo reel. There are also a number of projects in progress that I have yet to complete a test render on. I've considered putting playblasts in here and I may at some point but working with clients not familiar with the animation process I've found that many people don't understand what a playblast is and when they see one they fear that it's closer to a final product. Anyone familiar with the industry would realize that without a fully rendered image you're losing the majority of your lighting, textures, and any bump mapping. Anyway... as I'm applying for industry jobs again I may just starting putting them in here anyway.

Beer Pong

I animated this as an advertisement for the website I built for my friend Rob's sports bar in San Ramon California. The website is currently being hosted on my domain at www.jasonhunken.com/outpost for the time being until Rob decides to allow me to upload and replace the site that is currently online. For now this will just be another demo reel scene.
Software used: Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Rendered with Mental Ray

God Speed

This is an effect I had worked on for Gods & Heroes. I had a version of it working in the Renderware based game engine at the time. I've recreated it but without a renderware export solution for my current version of Maya I had to resort to rendering out a clip. I've got a couple things I'd like to tweak on it still.
Software used: Autodesk Maya

Heart Breaker

Test Render. Still need to render and composite the fluid effects fire onto the photograph and I'd like to re-render the background plate with a better final gather solution as well.
Software used: Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Rendered with Mental Ray

ASE logo test Version 2

Work in Progress for a Safeway Logo animation. This is alternate version 2.
Software used: Autodesk Maya, Rendered with Mental Ray

Lotus Exige

I just really want to own a Lotus. You think if I finish the 3D model and composite it into a live action scene well enough the company will donate one to me out of gratitude?
Software used: Autodesk Maya, Rendered with Mental Ray

Caustics Test Render

Work in Progress for the intro/outro of my demo reel. Geometry created in Maya then exported to RealFlow for fluid dynamics simulation then brought back into Maya for lighting shading and rendering.
Software used: Nextlimit Realflow, Autodesk Maya, Adobe After Effects, Rendered with Mental Ray
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