Rod Basham is the VFX supervisor at the Los Angeles offices of Imaginary Forces – an award winning visual effects firm with a reel that includes some of film’s most impressive work including Terminator Salvation, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, The Pink Panther 2, Ray, Definitely Maybe and Charlotte’s Web to name a few.

Rod has worked on numerous feature film main title sequences including Spiderman, My Sister’s Keeper, The Pink Panther 2, In the Bedroom, The Mummy 2 and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. His commercial work includes spots for Microsoft, Pontiac, Nike, Lexus, Spike, and Infiniti.

As a lead Flame artist and designer, he’s contributed feature film content for an impressive list of titles, including Terminator Salvation, Blade 3, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Titus, and Steve Spielberg’s Minority Report. He was also the lead flame artist on live theatrical content for the Wynn Hotel and Casino’s Lake of Dreams in Las Vegas and Julie Taymor’s Grendel Opera.

One of Rod’s recent projects was for Terminator Salvation (view motion.tv article). The piece was entitled “Machine Vision”. In this project, their challenge was to conceptualize how the Terminator robots would see the world. Imaginary Forces broke down the visual spectrum to design Machine Vision, developing the language of these special effects sequences. Using new tools for IF, such as depth cameras that breaks down footage into data point 3-D imaging, Machine Vision creates a terrifying new take on these killer robots.

“We had to figure out how to take this depth information and map these interesting point clouds under there and supplement these with the interface graphics. I think Jeremy Cox (lead animator/designer) approached it very cleanly and in a fresh way but drawing upon what was in the other films. The red wash is pretty much a trademark of machine vision type shots, but we took it in a slightly different direction so it wasn’t the expected optical red wash that people have seen. We made it different for different machines too,” said Basham.

Imaginary Forces also created the main titles for Terminator Salvation.

“A lot of the inspiration for the titles came from the machine vision work and from what we were already working on. The titles themselves are big, iconic, heavy pieces that fit into the score that Danny Elfman did. We did our best to work in pixel crawls and glitches to match the other stuff we were doing,” explained Basham.

Rod has also been involved in a number of architectural and experience design projects including Design and the Elastic Mind featured at MOMA . Independently, Rod directed his first music video, which was featured in Resfest in 2004.

Basham will be presenting several sessions this year at motion09, and is one of the selected panelists for The Art of VFX Supervision.

motion09 welcomes Rod Basham to the stage!

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Rod Basham will be one of the ‘rock stars’ at motion09

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Sci-Fi and VFX fans instantly recognize Orloff’s name as the genius who does his creative magic each week on J.J. Abrams’ new sci-fi series, Fringe. From the translucent John Scott, to the jaw-dropping pilot, the butterfly attack, or Porciman – it’s Orloff’s creative mind at work.

Orloff is the Creative Director and Visual Effects Supervisor for Zoic Studios – an award winning visual effects firm with a reel that includes some of television’s most impressive series including Fringe, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Battlestar Galactica, Jericho, and Firefly to name a few. Andrew’s television credits include HBO’s True Blood, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and the highly anticipated new series “V”.

Orloff established Zoic’s stage and has directed hundreds of motion control shots and other specialty sequences. He also launched the company’s successful animation division and contributed to such high-end projects as the design and creation of a 360-degree experience for EA, the innovative Fox Bot campaign for Fox Sports and the Sprint Heroes: Destiny web series.

A graduate of UCLA’s school of Theatre, Film and Television, Orloff is also on the Advisory Board at Gnomon School of Visual Effects and has been a featured speaker at various conferences and industry events.

Most recently, Orloff and Zoic have taken center stage for their work on Fringe – winning a VES (Visual Effects Society) award for ‘Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program’. And it even gets better. Last week, the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award nominations were announced, and the Fringe has been nominated for Outstanding Special Visual Effects.

motion09 welcomes Andrew Orloff to the stage!

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Andrew Orloff will be one of the ‘rock stars’ at motion09

10.11 – 10.14 2009 | abq | nm
motion | experience inspiration

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author: Elaine Montoya
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copyright: © 2008 – 09
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