Welcome to my revised motion design site. Sorry for the URL change. It is now called blanksight.video and will only feature my animation and design work. If you are interested in my illustration work you can go to blanksight.net
Welcome to my revised motion design site. Sorry for the URL change. It is now called blanksight.video and will only feature my animation and design work. If you are interested in my illustration work you can go to blanksight.net
Book Trailer for The School for Good and Evil 5: A Crystal of Time written by Soman Chainani, published by HarperCollins. Find out more about the series at schoolforgoodandevil.com
TASKS: Direction, Concept Design, Illustration, 3D Animation (Modeling, Rigging, Texturing, Lighting), Compositing, 2D Animation.
Original Music: Luciano Storti lukelife.com
Sound Design: Guy Rowland guyrowland.co.uk
Book Trailer for The School for Good and Evil 4: Quests for Glory written by Soman Chainani, published by HarperCollins. Find out more about the series at schoolforgoodandevil.com
TASKS: Direction, Concept Design, Illustration, 3D Animation (Modeling, Rigging, Texturing, Lighting), Compositing, 2D Animation.
Original Music: Luciano Storti lukelife.com
Sound Design: Guy Rowland guyrowland.co.uk
Latest Reel containing work mostly between 2013 & 2015
soundtrack: "Got it" by Marian Hill
SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL 3 "THE LAST EVER AFTER" OFFICIAL TRAILER for Soman Chainani's 3rd and final book of The School for Good and Evil trilogy published by HarperCollins.
JOB TASK: Direction, concept & character design, illustration, 3D/2D animation, 3D modeling, lighting, texturing, rigging, compositing, editing.
Original music: Luciano Storti -- lukelife.com/
Sound: Bailey Math -- baileymathsound.com/
Software: Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop
To find out more about the series go to: schoolforgoodandevil.com
This reel includes work from year 2009 through 2013.
MUSIC TRACK: JUSTICE,
"ON 'N' ON"
DIRECTORS / PRODUCERS:
Manny J. Palad & Michael Blank
CONCEPT DESIGN, COMPOSITING, EDITING, ANIMATION:
Manny J. Palad
3D ANIMATION, MODELING, LIGHTING:
Michael Blank
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER:
Emily Sheskin
STYLING / HAIR / MAKE UP:
Thea Palad
ART DEPARTMENT:
Alison Schiff
TALENT:
Rafal Pustelny, Christina Dooling,
Natalie McCormick, & Justin Lynch
SOUND DESIGN:
Baily Math
ORIGINAL SCORE:
Luciano Storti
A trailer created to promote the book by Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil.
DESIGN, ILLUSTRATION & ANIMATION: Manny Palad (notarobot.tv) & Michael Blank
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Luciano Storti (lukelife.com)
SOUND DESIGN: Michael Chap Resnick and Bailey Math (terminatorsmile.com)
SGE LOGO DESIGN: Iacopo Bruno
VOICEOVER: Phaedra Kelley
ROLE: DESIGN & ANIMATION
This is a montage of the work I did for a for a documentary "Where We Danced" by Brian Lucky Skillen. The documentary explores the roots of swing and other forms of Jazz dance.
It includes: title intro animation and chapter intro animations.
Soundtrack: Kelly Joe Phelps "Doxology"
ROLE: DESIGN & ANIMATION
An Open I created for my friend/ teacher/ dancer Brian Lucky Skillen for a show pitch called Dancing World.
The show is about traveling and exploring dance within different regions of the world.
The music is by the The Contours
A holiday promo for Showtime that was used as an e-card to send to clients and friends.
I animated the piece using Cinema4D and After Effects based on Boards designed by Iveta Abolina. I loved working on this project. A good break from doing sports graphics:)
Designer: Iveta Abolina
Art Directors: Reiko Sugitani, Young Sun, Nikolai Pohorelsky
Animator: Michael Blank
