Portfolio
Marj Knight
Below is a gallery of Marj's work
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Demo Reel 2000-2004 : Some repeats, some you haven't seen yet...Marj edited, it's a bit dated, but gives many examples of the work. |
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| Text and Graphics (This is a combo of both) CTV Jack Osbourne : Created animated graphics for show CTV CSI-VSI Colgate : Shows End Pack Animation Home & Garden TV AWARDS SHOWS Geminis : Prepped all finalists for the evening. Shopper's Arcade : Animated all. Pert : Shows End Pack Animation Hooplife : History Channel- Bible History Channel-City History Channel- the Moon Sheena : End Logo McCabe : Animate supplied elements Chuck : Animate all Scudder : Animate map effect CTV SexTV - Robot CTV SexTV - Storyville CTV TrainwreckTV : Textures and text animation CTV Trainwreck TV : Original BurgerKing : Animate all text, finish spot CONCERT BACKING - Queen's Ryche CITYTVSales Ali with Rough Audio : 3D element supplied. Everything else created and spot finished. CTV SexTV Cheerleaders CITYTVSalesSupers |
| Animation, Painting by Hand (If it looks hand painted, and sometimes its hard to tell what's what, I did it. Drew the plants, metals, watered down the inks, added braces into many mouths, all frame by frame painting.) DIRECTORS CUT Adidas : David Cronenberg's spot : End scene animation. Feedex : Animate, comp created weed animation into supplied grassy bottle shot. Feedex Weed : Create, paint, animate weed growing and then dying off. Provide : Create, paint, animate plants growing. CTV Top Model Countdown : Paint / create countdown numbers to match style of ANTM and animate Yellow Pages Talking Dog : Animate mouth of dog. CityTV - Ugly Betty : Hand paint braces on all street characters acting as Ugly Betty. Power Saver : Frame by frame paint to wash away sign. CTV - Walrus : Animate CTV logo to compliment spot. CTV Murdock Mysteries : Animate blood on cloth, create and animate 'dead' eyes, paint and track in clean glass. Nescafe Vers E : Hand paint sky, animate sun under logo Nescafe Vers F : Hand paint sky, animate sun under logo Pizza Pops Logo : Given rough splash - clean up, accentuate, create food bits, hand animate all details and words. Pizza Pops : Animate prizes Electrocution: Hand paint effect for TV Movie. Frixienet : Using a couple of sparklers, create, paint, animate, track, comp effect into various scenes for commercial. Frixienet Explained : Split. Schooner Beer : Hand painted water splash, and animated ship. Quaker-English : Animate noses. Canadian Tire Elf : Hand animate sparkles and glows, comp elf. TV SERIES Shock - Street TV SERIES Shock - Warehouse Sheridan Animation : Ink on film. Plane Boxed - Airplane Tourism : Boxed TV SERIES 6thGradeAlien : TV series - lots of comp'ing and hand animated effects in a very low budget series. Hydro - Light sOn : Paint out lights, then animate them on. |
| Commercials (just a few that were conformed, supered, possibly altered in some other way, and finished for air) Bud Cliffhanger Spot : lots of difficult rig removal. Finish spots for air. Bud Cliffhanger Explained Evantage Spot : Lights on in city shot, and end logo. Finish spot. Coor's - Camping : Add supers, comp a bit, finish spots. Coor's - Biking : Add supers, comp a bit, finish spots. Ford Canada Spot : Add supers, 3D bubbles supplied, but the rest was comp 'd, roto'd, tracked, finish spots. Fruit Of The Loom - Batman Spot : Fun quick comp spot. Nabob Coffee Sumatra : Fix coffee bean, create border, super, finish spot. DragonBallz : Comp'ing throughout. |
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| Stuff That I Painted (and incorporated into scenes) Duracel - Loonie : Create Loonie face for 3D artists, then do final comp of coins to battery. Impulse Perfume - Mary Lou : Paint all new soda fountain items, track, roto, comp into all shots completing commercial as a Soda Shop, not a Bar. Beer : Paint beer glasses full in moving shots to make legal for air. Pontiac-Paper : Split - Paint art to look like proper newspaper cover before adding it to shot. Pontiac-Sign : Split - Paint art to look like proper sign before adding it to shot. Joy : Paint background where product is removed, animate. Subaru : Paint building and sign to clean up. Comp shot. Particles for Demo : Create and animate particles for demo. Chrome : Paint numbers to put in car spot. Leslie Nielsen Spot : Cans & Coffee needed to be reduced. Painted missing backgrounds, tracked, fixed piles, brightened pile details |
| Repair, Replace, Revise (alterations you probably wouldn't know about otherwise) CTV Colgate : Original Element CTV Colgate : Final shots. Finished revised spot for air. Donut Shop : Make popular shot nameless. Rolled Gold : Create, paint sign with new language, recreate moving lighting to match original sign. Dove Soap : Client wanted nice smooth soap in place of shot cracked soap. Painted, tracked, comp'd. Aveeno and Elements : Replace all packages. Neutrogena Hand Cream : Replace all packages. CTV i-Travel - Typo Fix : Correct a spelling mistake on all shots Neutrogena-Pores : Make up a different version from the original MOVIE Chicago : Too costly to reshoot this scene, characters had to be re-timed. Very difficult task, with moving lights and moving actors. HondaService : New language. CTV TD Bank - Floor : Cleanup floor marks caused during shoot. CTV Text Revision - 3D Earth : In this case, it would have required a rerender. Paint text to look 3D, match existing 3D text and animate into shot. Benylin : Alter colour of product Lactancia Butter : Completely new product look requested Lactaid Pack : Change package. Mini Wheats Butler : Final Mini Wheats Classroom : Final Mini Wheats Park Split : Change package on all sides. CTV Much Dance Sign, Door & Floor |
| Colour Balance (also General Alteration, and Picture Improvement) CTV Hulk Hogan : Improve colour throughout, as well as picture quality. CTV Flick-Off : Colour to balance some very skewed colours through spot. CTV Bravo! - Dirt : Colour to balance very inconsistent shots from various sources. Colour Play Colour Play Colour Play |
| Start With A Single Frame (I was handed actual artwork or given a video frame to start...) Clock : Make up animated clock day to night from single frame. Mr Christy : Had a still frame that needed some life, and a super. Nescafe Frothy : Simple zoom and minor glow. Canadian Airlines : Make up moving shot of tails with logos from logo art alone. Simmon's House : Started as a single floor home - much different. Matte Paint / alter shot of home to suite. Create / paint day to night, animate into logo Royal Bank Machine : Create from scratch with reference artwork. Royal Bank : Create from scratch with reference artwork. CreditCardSpot : Animated Cup - from single frame of art Tylenol : Animate pill and glow - start with frame of pill. Other Kinds of Animation (Lasers, and more lasers) BC Tel : Make up photo frame, comp in character, animate and comp to ants. TV SERIES My Secret Identity - Laser : Laser created and animated into shot. CTV Nokia/MMVA08 Create, paint, animate and add lasers to all scenes. Block character from back window. Add MMVA'08 sign, more branding. Finish spot for air. TV MOVIE John Woo Part A : Lasers created, tracked and roto'd into shots. TV MOVIE John Woo Part B : Lasers created, tracked and roto'd into shots. CITYTV Elevator- lasers : Lasers added to head piece. |
| Rig Removal (and in one rare case, leg removal...) MUSIC VIDEO Marylin Manson : Paint out existing legs below knees, replacing background. Cap off and animate knees. Fix effected particles. Eggo Waffles : Remove rig from single spinning waffle. Create matte, replicate and animate around head of actor. MOVIE Chicago 1 : Take out rigs, including painting clothes back, fixing shadows, etc, and enhance red ribbons. MOVIE Chicago 2 MOVIE Chicago 3 MOVIE Chicago 4 MOVIE Chicago 5 Molson 'Desk' - Split : Lots of rig removal, desk cleanup, and finished the spot for air. Eatmore : Rigs removed from jumping fish. Reese Peanut Butter Cups : Rigs removed and background painted back in. |
| Compositing etc. (it's rarely just compositing...) TVTV : Track and Comp various scenes into this famous old scene. Bank : Revised name on building to BANK - Moving shot. Bounty : Added Logo to moving tea cups. TV MOVIE Burn : Create Night Vision effect Canada Tourism - Whale : Background with man in boat shot in B.C. Whale shot in pool. See next clip. This clip later became a stock shot. Canada Tourism - Whale Explained : With original background mixed in. Alberto Magazine Cover Mathew M : Comp'd him into another shot. Cover Girl Magazine Cover : Request to change girl on one magazine cover. Recycle : This shows the truck with and without the logo. Dristan : Lots of comp'ing. Dristan Explained : This shows comps in the Dristan spot, and shows the parts that were used for the final. Northern Lights : Pieced together and touched up by hand. NetLibrary Airplane : Airplane related comp'ing through spot. End logo supplied. Christmas Phones 3d : Shows comp'ing of all 3d and other elements that bring this to life. MolsonTruck Cave : Comp various els together. Work done by a group of artists. Molson Truck Explained : Shows layers CTV CoverGirl Trueblend Cow Brand Comp and track cow into box. Glasses on kid : Combine two almost lined up shots to get this effect. CTV LG Phone : Elevator button animation, phone animation, track image for phone, etc. Finish for air. Labatt - Dog House : Supplied dog house tracked, comp'd. Sega : Various effects and comp'ing Sega Pt1 : Various effects and comp'ing MOVIE : The Cel : Create matte for scene MOVIE Jason X : Rough comps used for placement and problem solving, while final graphics are built for the movie. TV MOVIE : Tribulation : Various comps Golf Ball Added : McCain : Win a Taurus - create photo frame look and animate into spot. Net-Library : Comp anything related to the airplanes. CTV Footlocker Phone : Make up text els French and English, and track into blank phone. CTV Footlocker Phone Explained : Shows various steps CTV Footlocker Spot, no sound : Words on switch box, words on cell phone, English and French. CTV Footlocker Switch Explained : Shows English, done in both languages. Parkay Santa: Comp Santa over sky. CTV Much Music : Monitors Split American Express - Pool : Combine card into pool Power Saver - Light Bulb : Combine 2 shots and remove rigs. comp'ing Classical Animation (By some of the best Classical Animators) KFC Comp Scene : Red Rover's animation comp'd and spots finished for air. CoCoa Puffs : Red Rover's animation comp'd and spots finished for air. Trix : Chuck Gamage Animation comp'd and spots finished for air. Trix Planet Spot with guide sound EssoGasCard : Comp various colours for spots. Purex : Comp'd and finished for air Rice Crispies : Comp and roto lots of layers. |
Demo Reel 2000-2004 : Animated, edited, it's a bit dated, but gives many examples of the work. |
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Also worked on Teenage Drama Queen - Movie, Stay - Movie, Comic Book Confidential-Ron Mann Documentary, Robo Cop - TV Series, Justice -TV Movie. |
TO MY DAD This is old, but some of you may remember it...
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MARJ's OTHER WEBSITES (so far)
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Lucky Breaks |