AT&T Cyber Security Conference Opening

090413 AT&T Conf Main Personal from Sun-Joon Robert Hwang on Vimeo.

Early sketches

Some modeling and rigging

About two months ago, I got to work on the opening animation for at&t cyber security conference with my friend Michael. This was an awesome experience because 1. it was one of the most exciting projects I got to work on this year, 2. because I enjoy working with Michael, 3. I got better at 3d animation.

Prior to this project, I barely knew how to animate anything in Cinema 4d, but with the help of Michael and numerous tutorials I watched, I can now say I know cinema 4d a little bit if someone asks... I'm still a newbie but I hope this is a stepping stone to exploring more 3d animation. 

Character Design Gig

First post this year!!

I love it when at&t gives me occasional character design/illustration gigs.

For this one, I was asked to design a simple character using a blobby shape. 

Hopefully I'll get to animate these guys.

Quickie 2

I know you do it.

Character Designs

Character designs done for at&t a while back.

And these are the animated clips before compositing. 

These were done a while ago, but I thought I'd post them since I don't have much recent work to share. College Board has been keeping me busy and I am mostly doing corporate style motion graphics. There are cons and pros. I definitely am hungry for some creative work though. 

iphone tracking

AccuApp_MockUp from Sun-Joon Robert Hwang on Vimeo.

This is a quick mockup video Steven and I created for a pitch, demonstrating how the Accuplacer app is used. We filmed my hands making motions on a blank screen then tracked it in Mocha. The content was created and animated in Aftereffects. Rotoscoping isn't perfect here, but this was a good practice, and I think we'll be able to make it look much better and nicer if we were to actually do this. Apple, let us create your next ipad demo video!!

Update

I was asked to come up with the whole design package for an online show at&t tech channel is hosting on their website, starting from a logo to the opening and layout formats.  The image above was the first draft I came up with that didn't get selected. Unfortunately I don't have a clean copy of the final design to post here because I created it using a plugin I don't own.
    Graphic design is always hard for me. The fact that I didn't have any official training makes me not confident. I'm glad I was given the opportunity to work on this though. It just brought something different to the table for me because most of the time, at&t hires me to do character animation. I will have to have better graphic design sense, since there will be many more like this to come when working for Idle Wheel Productions.

Puppet animation

This was a powerpoint presentation during a conference at at&t.
It was meant to be played in the background while a presenter was doing his presentation in the front.
My role was to do all the character animation, and the editor at at&t tech channel did all the background and special effects. I personally think it's a bit slow-paced and long, but since this is a background piece and has to be timed with the presentation itself, it works out okay.

College Board Project

 

So, I got to work on another College Board project, except this time they were my direct client! Thanks to Gloria Chen, me and my team Idle Wheel, were referred to College Board, and they hired us to work on the video content for their website. This was an overwhelming experience in a positive way, because this was our first paid gig ever, and the biggest client we ever had up until now. And through this, we officially registered our team as an LLC company. Thinking about the first day we met at Bite Asia Entertainment, and the days we spent working on free music video projects to build our portfolio, makes me feel proud that we stuck together this whole time, and that we are where we are right now.

 The project entailed interviewing professors and college board staffs about their College Level Examination Program(CLEP) at a conference in San Diego, and making different cuts of videos for different purposes. The thumbnails above are from the video we made for the social media purpose that will be posted on their youtube account.

It was pretty draining to work on this and work for at&t at the same time, but it was totally worth it and time well-spent.  I hope this will lead to more projects and that Idle Wheel will continue on!

It's been a year

Last year today, 

I was holding her hand saying my last goodbyes.

작년오늘, 

엄마손을 잡고 마지막을 지켜보았다.

벌써일년이란 시간이 지났구나.

엄마에게 자랑스러운 아들이 되고싶은데 

그렇지 못하게 살고있는거 같아 죄송스럽다.

My thoughts are still with you always

Zero

It's been almost a month since I moved out and started living alone, but for some reason it still doesn't feel like I'm living alone. May be because I was too busy working and unpacking that I didn't have the time to let it sink in. Or may be it's because Zero always makes sure to greet me home when I get home.