Role: Lead Motion Designer / VFX & CGI Integration
Partners: Hamblin Imagery (creative, edit, sound design, final mix)

Brief
Deliver hero shots featuring Panasonic MultiShape with precise tracked CGI components integrated into live-action, consistent with the campaign look.

What I did

• Supplied tracked CGI assets for on-set integration.

• Troubleshot at speed on shoot day: removed light-box reflections, painted out tracking markers/lines, and cleaned the studio floor & stray set artifacts.

• Re-aligned the device to talent performance for believable airflow/action sync.

• Matched the graded plates by grading CGI elements and compositing them back into the shot.

• Delivered a widescreen master plus 15+ variations highlighting different attachments.

Key responsibilities

• Tracking & matchmove: robust solves for stable CGI placement.

• Cleanup & paint: removed light-box reflections behind the subject; painted out tracking markers and a persistent line across shots.

• Performance alignment: repositioned the device relative to the actor’s mouth for correct timing/sync when blowing on the shaver.

• Roto & integration: edge mattes, defocus/aberration, and grain to sit the CGI naturally.

• Look continuity: graded CGI to match the graded plates; balanced speculars and micro-contrast.

• Versioning: authored one widescreen film and 15+ cut-downs to showcase the modular heads/uses.

Technical highlights

• Camera tracking & object tracking

• Marker/line removal (paint, frame-blend, patching)

• Reflection suppression & plate prep

• CGI look-dev alignment to graded plates

• Compositing, relighting tweaks, and final grain/film response

Outcome
Seamless, on-brand shots where CGI and live-action read as one, resolving shoot-day issues without reshoots and enabling a clean hero master plus a robust set of social/placement variations.