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JEFF WENZ
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Animation
Graphic Design
Documents
Motion background loop of a lake at a snowy mountain. Created with Unreal Engine for a calm and relaxing mood to act as a visualizer to music created by Andrew Guan.
The first version contains the natural color palette of the snowy landscape. The second contains a color palette of blues, purples and pinks rotating in the background, giving a slightly more coolish lavalamp aesthetic.
Copmosition placing a pirate ship in the Yarra Rivver over Flinders Gate Bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
This project was to place a 3D asset of some kind into the real world. I took several pictures around Melbourne and settled with the image looking over the Flinders Gate Bridge. I acquired the pirate ship from Poly Haven and camera placed it in Autodesk Maya, generated reflections and then exported everything to Adobe Photoshop where the composited pirate ship was placed and the environment was altered to help tell the story.
A short film trailer created by Jukebox about two characters escaping from prison in the depths of space, respawning every time they die. As this was a team major production, we aimed to work with industry tools, techniques and quality.
My role on the team was rigging the character Gimmick, managing recording for voice actors, motion capture for detailed animated shots, and investigating cooperative systems and engaging with Pixar’s Universal Scene Description in the form of NVIDIA Omniverse.
Short film created by Platypus Posseinspired by the Pakenham, Victoria mascott: the Yakkerboo; the friendly, bunyip, swamp creature. Riley wanders into Mr. Yakkerboo’s travel agency and is taken across Australia on a surreal adventure ending at Mt. Ulruru.
My role on the team was creating the Yakkerboo model (inspired by Julia Squires statue on Main Street in Pakenham), rigging him, animation and technical animation. I was also the original source for the story creation featuring the Yakkerboo.
Advertisement created by Panels with the intention of addressing a mondern-day social dilema. A short story about two mothers saving their precious family memories from data leaks.
My role on the team was producer where I managed weekly minutes and meetings and managed and organized our filesystem and collaboration. I was also the lead rigger for the Mother characters and their children. I took care of rendering and post-production and much of the water dynamics in the advertisment.
Short film created by Plum Studios. After awakening from a coma, Lola finds herself trapped in her basement with a robot caretaker, Kla-Ra, who doesn’t seem to be exactly what it seems.
My rolein this production was audio, specifically the voices. I built modular recording booths with recording equipment and helped direct voice lines and efforts and directed variations. After recording, it was my task to robotimize Kla-Ra’s voice in a way which did not destroy the acting. I also assisted with technical rigging where I created Mel Script to influence Kla-Ra’s IK rig to move and rotate appropriately to the model.
Short film created by 3 Dudes Making Stuff for a client brief known as Laundromatica; a distopyan future where laundry means everything.
My role on the team was rigging the main character, Dennis, and rendering effects such as lighting and shading. The style proposed to the client involved a toon style with thick outlines and harsh lighting to give a well balanced mix of western cartoon and serious tone.
