Janet Jackson & Daddy Yankee – Made For Now VFX
Itaki Design Studio teamed up with MOD and Chris Nalesnik to produce a “one take” hyperlapse music video for Janet Jackson.
Music Videos
Jay Rock & Kendrick Lamar – WIN VFX
Itaki Design joined MOD and Chris Nalesnik to knock out a music video for Jay Rock and Kendrick Lamar. We had the task of creating several different worlds for them to live in. We used a ton of camera tracking and the use of a lot of 3D cards in Nuke to bring all the elements together.
Spirits – Lost and Found Music Video
“Lost and Found” from the album So Happy, It’s Sad by The Spirits Written, Directed, Edited by Carl Janes of FUTURE ANCESTORS Spirits and the Melchizedek Children are Jason Robert Elliott Chris Case Brian Fielden Joe McNeill Andrew Burnes Ryan Odom Backing vocals by Mlny Parsonz Cello by Matt Jarrard Violin and viola by Ryan Gregory Cinematography, VFX and Post – Michael… Read More »Spirits – Lost and Found Music Video
Ghost of Old Highways VFX Breakdown
The visual effects (VFX) breakdown of Ghost of Old Highways by itaki design studio. The short film was inspired by Lovett’s Ghost of Old Highways off of the Highway Collection album. It was written and directed by Dan Bush of Psychopia Pictures. The visual effects were all done at Studio Outpost by itaki design studio. Michael McReynolds lead the VFX… Read More »Ghost of Old Highways VFX Breakdown
Michael McReynolds Color Reel
2017 This is a color reel from a number of different films and music videos. All color was done in Black Magic DaVinci Resolve except for some additional effects done in After Effects for Born Pretty and Lost & Found. 0:02 – 1:05 from “Curveball” – imdb.com/title/tt3091138/1:05 – 1:27 from “Lost & Found” by Spirits and the Melchizedek Children –… Read More »Michael McReynolds Color Reel
itaki VFX reel
0:00 – 0:12 itaki film leader0:12 – 1:14 from “The Reconstruction of William Zero” – imdb.com/title/tt18670911:14 – 1:33 from “Lost & Found” – vimeo.com/820156611:33 – 1:49 from “Shut Eye” – Prerelease1:49 – 2:04 from “Bait” – imdb.com/title/tt29510342:04 – 2:52 from “Ghost of Old Highways” – imdb.com/title/tt2061689 – ghostofoldhighways.com/2:52 – 3:16 from “V/H/S – Amateur Night” – imdb.com/title/tt2105044 ContactMichael McReynolds – Nuke Digital Compositormritaki (at) gmail.com404.519.4976imdb.com/name/nm2514860/
Born Pretty Color Correction
I did the color correction. The original footage was shot on both a RED and a 5D. Somehow the RED footage had also turned green and the skin tones were all off. I finished the video in Hiero and did the color in Davinci Resolve.
A3C Festival 2010 :30 Spot
With zero time and no assets each year itaki makes a commercial for the A3C Hip Hop Fest. A3C is run by Andy Harrison; DJ Synthesis, Digital Wolf, and one of the members of Studio Outpost. His shizzy is bad nizzy. This one was created in Cinema 4D and colored and timed in After Effects. I’ve been trying to play… Read More »A3C Festival 2010 :30 Spot
E-Motion Studies
E-Motion Studies is the baby of the first collaboration between Psychopia Pictures and itaki design studio. We shot the whole thing with a Photron super high speed camera. Each shot was taken at 1000 frames per second. We assembled everything in After Effects. The music was done by a band called Twittering Machine. Each musician was shown the video and… Read More »E-Motion Studies