“Hot Air Balloon” – 3D Animated Short Film by Leslie Lello using Maya and Soft Image (and ICE)
Hot Air Balloon had its world premiere at the Zaki Gordon Film Festival in Sedona, Arizona in May 2012. I was going to send this out to a bunch of additional animation festivals, but it’s getting to be time to put my favorite work up on the Internet and my website because I am graduating…
Oil Explosition – Fluid Effects in Maya
Oil Explosition – Fluid Effects in Maya from Leslie Lello on Vimeo. This effect was created with Maya fluid effects and then enhanced in Nuke. This is my first crack at fluids and I really enjoyed it. I want to work on this shot a bit more but I also wanted to post this because…
Animating an Alien in Autodesk – Maya 2012
Animating an alien! from Leslie Lello on Vimeo. I animated this alien in Maya. I am still going to put some flame FX in from the flame thrower, but I just wanted to show the animation stage for right now. I really enjoyed animating this creature, modeled by Matt Colrain. 10 limbs and 2 antenna…
3D Digital Lighting vs. Practical FIlm Set Lighting: A Comparison
(This was a paper I wrote for one of my classes. I actually love to light sets, but I felt that to make this paper strong, I had to chose a strong thesis statement. Send a message @leslielello at Twitter if you care to discuss…) :-) Sixty years ago, when black and white movies…
A new video! I <3 Simulation!
I know it’s been a while since I have posted… My school keeps me busy so I can’t always get to my blog, but I have a new video, with more on the way. One of the classes I am taking is a simulation/fluids/particle effects class and I really, really love it. Untitled from Leslie…
Short Film: “Lost and Found” Edited in Premiere Pro
This is a cute little short film I made with Wyatt Mitchell and Kathryn (Katie) Adelsen called “Lost and Found”. No VFX were allowed to be used in the film. It was an exercise in making a film for VFX people who may not be familiar with telling a visual story. This was shot on…
Walk Cycle in Maya: “Samy’s Mom”
I made this walk cycle in my Animation class a few weeks ago… This animated walk cycle is based on a character I used to improvise years ago. I had to shoot reference video to create the walk cycle. This is the reference video I shot in order to create my walk cycle in Maya…
Star Farmers: A Pipeline Project
I worked on this project last semester as part of my Pipeline class. (Yeah, I took it first semester, which is really weird). So this was a collaboration among the 6 VFX students that were in class this summer. Considering three of us (half the class) had our first exposure to Maya during this class,…
Waltz with Bashir
In my effort to see a variety of animated material, I took out Waltz with Bashir from the library, which is the first documentary to be fully animated. It is about Israeli veterans of the First Lebanon War, their stories, and 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre. it was an extremely clever way to tell the…
Finished Reading Droidmaker
I finished reading Droidmaker and the second half was just as interesting as the first half! I really liked it when the book got into the details of the three Star Wars movies! Star Wars and Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan were unprecedented for their time and had a huge impact on the beginnings…
