shannon wegner

I worked on this shot for Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium at  Satellite Studios.  I had to make these little Playmobile guys come to life. It was really fun to work on. This whole shot was done using XSI ( I still have trouble calling it Softimage ). I did all the modeling, texturing, rigging, lighting, tracking and rendering.  This is the full uncropped frame to give you and idea what the original plates were like. Compositing was done by Gregg Lukomski.

A test Trevor Harder and I did before I worked on a gazillion shots on “Snakes on a Plane” . Animating snakes gets quite boring after awhile.

All of the snake was actually done in Lightwave.  If any of you have rigged in Lightwave before you know this type of rig was quite the pain. I currently prefer to work with Softimage and have done alot of animating in Maya as well.

Trevor Harder did the lighting, compositing and rendering. I modeled, textured, rigged and animated it.