“Take Your Medicine” is the second single off Transfer’s debut album,“Future Selves,” slated for a September 19th release on Cool Green Recordings/Mascot Label Group. The video is Directed by Nader Husseini and produced/edited by Amy Grieshaber. Radium/Reel FX turnkeyed the spot.
The team used After Effects as the main compositing software. They combined the 2D drawings and paintings and 3D animation and digital effects into a single space in order to create a highly textured look. In addition to lighting and compositing the CG characters and props in Maya, the team used Maya Toon, Maya Hair and Maya nCloth, manipulating and merging techniques not typically used in the studio’s CG pipeline. Pre-compositing 3D components in Nuke ensured an efficient workflow. These files were also color-corrected and incorporated into the 2D environments in After Effects. Using Maya Paint FX in conjunction with cloth simulations and digital effects added to the video’s unique style.
Director/
Nader Husseini
Producer, Editor/
Amy Grieshaber
Executive Creative Director/
Dale Carman
Concept Artists/
Nader Husseini
Yashar Tahtolkassai
Motion Designers/
Nader Husseini
Byron Slaybaugh
Christopher Vela
Additional Design/
Erin McGuire
Dustin D’Arnault
Production Coordinator/ Taylor Lee Williams
Production Assistant/ Meghan A. Cole
Technical Director, Rigging Supervisor, Cloth Artist/
Kyle Wood
Modeling/
Nathan Smithson
Brandon Stoker
Additional Modeling/
Seth Olson
Alison Donato
Texturing Supervisor, Lighting, Compositing Supervisor/
Brandon Stoker
Texturing, Lighting/
Brandon Stoker, Lauren Davis, Seth Olson,
Chris Browne, Connon Carey, Julie Terrell, Hollan Holmes
Particle Effects, Layout/
Joseph P. Johnston, Mark Thielen
Animation Supervisor/
Ernesto Bottger
Animators/
Jeff Weidner, Randy Hayes, Trevor Young, Eric Drobile,
Ray Chase, Drew Winey, Jimm Pegan, Matt Kummer, Monica Aston
Compositors/
Dag Ivarsoy, Jared Brower
Sound Designers/
Frank Pittenger, TJ Callaway, Matt Pittman
Layout Supervisor/
Mark Thielen
Live Action Producer/
Laura Wallgren
Live Action Assistant Director/
James Boisvenue
Live Action DP/
Julio Quintana
Special Thanks To/
Jay Galvan, Jolyn Janis and Danny Delpurgatorio for consultation on live action story and integration.
