WEI-TING DUO

Client: Cadillac

Studio: Framestore

Role: magnet lookdev, lighting, rendering, precomp , car lookdev, lighting in the last shot

2021 Super Bowl LV Feb 7, 2021

Client: Hummer/GMC

Studio: Framestore

Role: Asteroids and planets look dev, lighting, rendering, precomp

A brand film of GMC’s new all-electric, all-terrain Hummer premiere on broadcast 2020 World Series      

Client: Bullish

Studio: Framestore

Role: CG bull lookdev, lighting, precomp

Client: Mercedes-Benz USA

Studio: Blacksmith

Role: CG layout, previs, lookdev, lighting, precomp

Client: Volkswagen

Studio: Blacksmith

Role: CG grass and stadium lookdev, lighting, precomp

Client: U.S. Marine Corps

Studio: Framestore

Role: CG Battleship and F35 sequences lookdev, lighting, precomp

Client: Hippo

Studio: Blacksmith

Role: CG smoke, leaves, trees, debris, rooftop lookdev, lighting, precomp

Client: Dell

Studio: Framestore

Role: CG motorcycle modeling, lookdev

Client: Coca Cola

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created facial replacement with multiple languages for each local markets around the world, including Mexico, Spain, Turkey, China, India, Korea, and South Africa markets.

Role: CG Lighting Supervisor for “Big News”, “Twisted”, “Join Us”, CG Lighting Artist

- lookdev, texturing, shading, lighting, rendering

Client: Show Carnival

Studio: Framestore

Role: CG shoes texturing, shading, lookdev, shoelace modeling

Shoes:

• Timberland Work Boots

• Ugg’s Koolaburra Victoria Short Boot

• Madden Girl Hidde Boot

Client: LEGO

Studio: Free Range VFX

Role: CG lighting, rendering, precomp

Shots:

• Stunt Rider in the loop sequence

• Pilot Driver sequences

• Sudsy Simon Tub Racer in the bathtub sequences

• Galactic Poppy Starr in the glow-in-the-dark room sequences

• Endtag

Client: L.L. Bean

Studio: Taylor James

Description: Created realistic all CG winter jacket.

Role: Lead CG Lighting Artist

- CG jacket look dev, shading, texturing, lighting, rendering, some compositing

Client: L.L. Bean

Studio: Taylor James

Description: Created realistic all CG flannel shirt with micro hair details.

Role: Lead CG Lighting Artist

- CG flannel look dev, shading, texturing, lighting, rendering, some compositing

Client: Dell

Studio: Framestore

Role: CG letters and smoke, lookdev, lighting, precomp

Client: Johannes Leonardo New York

Agency: Trident

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Role: Lead CG Lighting Artist

- deer look dev, shading, texturing, lighting, rendering, compositing

Award: 2017 Creative Pool Annual Award, Post production winner, Creativepool.com.                 

Client: David Slade

Director: David Slade

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created the original stag creature for Hannibal TV series Pilot Episodes, provided stag element for the whole series

Role: CG Lighting Artist

- original stag creature design and lookdev with hair and feathers, antler modeling and sculpting, final stag with hair and feathers texturing, shading, lighting, rendering.

- antler modeling, thrusting animation, texturing, shading, lighting, rendering

Client: Pepsico

Studio: The Mill

Role: CG liquid man lookdev, lighting, rendering, precomp

Client: Maybelline New York

Studio: LVLY

Role: Lead CG Lighting Artist for the print campaign

- CG lookdev, layout, shading, texturing, lighting, rendering, compositing

Client: Maybelline New York

Studio: LVLY

Role: Senior/Lead CG Lighting Artist for various Maybelline campaigns

Client: Amazon

Company: LVLY

Description: Created CG opening sequence for Amazon All New Kindle Paperwhite web campaign.

Role: Lead CG Lighting Artist

- CG look dev, shading, texturing, lighting, rendering, compositing

Client: Amazon

Company: LVLY

Description: Created various CG rooms for Amazon new Fire TV Stick 4K web campaign.

Role: Lead CG Lighting Artist

- CG rooms look dev, shading, texturing, lighting, rendering, compositing, editing 

Client: Coca Cola

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created Coca-Cola's new global packaging endtag animation for new Coca-Cola commercials.

"New Can"

Role: Lead CG artist

- texturing, shading, lighting, rendering, compositing

"Summertime FIFA World Cup"

Role: Lead CG artist

- all fireworks particle animation & rendering

Agency: Tag Worldwide

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Descriiption: Created high rez CG bottle renders for Seagram’s new packaging.

Role: Lead CG Artist

- all CG except bottle modeling

Agency: Link9 LLC

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created 4 opening animation sequences of growing vines for the web campaign "gout is serious"

Role: Lead CG Artist

- all CG

Agency: Publicis Kaplan Thaler

Client: Procter & Gamble

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created foreground CG toilet paper for Charmin's 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil commercial

Role: CG Lighting Artist

- last shot's toilet paper shading, lighting, compositing

Agency: NERVE

Client: Lord & Taylor

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Creating CG clouds for Lord & Taylor's commericial

Role: CG Lighting Artist

- clouds shading, lighting, rendering, compositing

Client: Pink Floyd

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Creating CG airplane for the entrance of Pink Floyd's Music Film "Roger Waters: The Wall". The film was premiered in the Special Presentation section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, and was nominated in Grammy Awards 2016 - Best Music Film.

Role: Lead CG Lighting Artist

- airplane texturing, shading, lighting, rendering, compositing

Client: IBM

Company: LVLY

Description: Created CG box that integrates with 2D animation.

Role: CG Artist

- CG box modeling, shading, texturing, lighting

Agency: Havas Worldwide Chicago

Client: Hornitos/Beam Global Spirits and Wine

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created a full CG spot with liquid simuations for Hornitos' Commercial

Role: CG Artist

- environment modeling, bottle labels, opening shot's texturing, shading, lighting, compositing

Agency: Johannes Leonardo

Client: Vroom (App)

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Our CG team of 3 created 7 animations for Vroom Child Development game, from creating concepts, storyboards to animations. I was responsible for creating "Russian Doll" and "Cannon Ball" from start to finish, and finalizing colors and lighting for all 7 animations in a few weeks.

Role: CG Artist

- all modeling, rigging, animation, shading, lighting, rendering, compositing for "Russian Doll" & "Cannon Ball", finalizing colors for all animations.

Agency: Wieden + Kennedy NY

Client: Delta Air Lines

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created CG airplane for Delta's TV, web, internal corporation commercial

Role: CG artist

- airplane tracking, animating, shading, lighting, rendering

Agency: Mcgarrybowen

Client: JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created stylized CG reflections for ATM machines and people.

Role: CG Artist

- CG floor reflection on the shot before endtag.

Agency: The Martin Agency

Client: Moen

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created CG faucets and VFX reflections for Moen's commercials "Washing Dishes" & "Brushing Teeth"

Role: CG Artist

- reflection elements, endtag CG faucets modeling, shading, lighting, rendering, compositing

Agency: Y&R New York

Client: C Spire

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created full CG abstract animations for C Spire Wireless Commercials

Role: Lead CG lighting artist

- particle look dev, texturing, shading, lighting, rendering, some compositing

Agency: 180 Kingsday

Client: DHL

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created CG airplane for the commercial

Role: CG Lighting Artist

- shading, lighting, rendering for the airplane landing shot

Agency: Cole & Weber

Client: Washington Lottery

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created a still advertising print of CG money in the vault for Washington Lottery, it was displayed at Simon Tacoma Mall Arch, the largest shopping center in Tacoma, Washington.

Role: Lead CG Lighting Artist

- modeling, texturing, lighting

Client: BlackRock

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created a 1-2 minute 3D animation as an educational video for BlackRock's customers and financial advisers. The client provided us with a VO script, and the CG team team created from concepts, storyboards, to final animation. 

Role: Lead CG Lighting Artist, Animator

- assets modeling, charts & bars animation, shading, lighting, rendering, some compositing

Client: BlackRock

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created a 1-2 minute 3D animation as an educational video for BlackRock's customers and financial advisers. The client provided us with a VO script and the CG team team created the concepts together. I was responsible for creating the storyboard and the full animation. The original longer version has the full storytelling/transitions with a temp VO, however, toward the end of delivery the client cut down the script, so we delivered a shorter version.

Role: Lead CG Artist, Storyboard Artist

- all CG except the globe shot simulation & camera transition

Client: BlackRock

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created a 1 minute 3D animation as an educational video for BlackRock's customers. The client provided us with a VO script, and the CG team team of 3 artists each created 3 animations, started from concepts, storyboards, to final animation. I was responsible for creating the full animation for “Inflation”. 

Role: Lead CG Artist, Storyboard Artist

- all CG

Description: My personal thesis project done at MFA Computer Art Department at SVA. All of the visual elements are done by me. 

Role: Lead CG Artist, Director

- storyboarding, modeling, rigging, animation, shading, texturing, lighting, rendering, compositing

Client: Johannes Leonardo New York

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created background replacement for Nick Jonas' music video "Jealous"

Role: CG Artist

- Background replacement, animation

Client: Spike TV

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created CG animation as a brand promotion video for Spike TV. The CG team of 3 artists were given 5 weeks to create from scratch, including designing the spaceships.

Role: Lead CG Lighting Artist

- texturing, shading, lighting, rendering, some compositing

Agency: Mcgarrybowen

Client: Sharp Corporation

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created giant TV head for Sharp TV commercials

Role: CG Artist

- tracking, animating, shading, lighting

Client: Novartis

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created Outdoor display & indoor screening animation video for Alcon at 2016 Boston Eye Health AOA conference

Role: Lead CG Artist

- All CG

Agency: McCann Erickson - New York

Client: Reckitt Benckiser

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Creating CG package for Airborne Dual Action Immune System Booster Effervescent Tablets

Role: Lead CG Artist

- all package

Client: Novartis

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created CG floor and package for Lotrimin demo in the commercial

Role: Lead CG Artist

- All CG

Client: Johannes Leonardo

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created a 3D logo animation celebrating Bacardi's 150th Birthday. It was displayed in Time Square's SONY Digital Screen, NYC, on Feb 4, 2012

Role: Lead CG Artist

- logos modeling, texturing, shading, lighting, compositing

Agency: McCann

Client: Reckitt Benckiser

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created CG woman for Mucinex "Fast-Max Clear & Cool" demo in the commercial

Role: Lead CG Lighting Artist

- woman shading, lighting

Agency: Colangelo

Client: Diageo

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created CG bottle label replacement for an existing Jose Cuervo commercial.

Role: CG Artist

- bottle label texturing, shading, lighting, rendering for 2nd and last label shots.

Agency: JWT

Client: Listerine

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created CG liquid forming into “O” shape of the bottle for Listerine’s endtag.

Role: CG Artist

- liquid previs & bottle animation, shading, lighting, rendering

Agency: JWT

Client: Listerine

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created full CG endtag Listerine.

Role: CG Artist

- cyc shading, overall lighting, rendering

Agency: The Martin Agency

Company: Smoke & Mirrors

Description: Created match moving animation with lighting LEDs for credit reports commercial. I used Mental Ray to make my own look dev version, eventually client chose the flat-color version in the final spot.

Role: CG Artist

- animation, look dev, shading, lighting