Ben Sutter of Bulls/Blackhawks fame recently updated his reel with some great work. Thanks for the contribution, looking good.

2008 Chicago Bears GNL Open from Rommel Paraiso on Vimeo.

Alright Bears Fans, Rommel Paraiso has uploaded some new videos for the Chicago Bears. Great stuff. Thanks for the contribution.

2008 Chicago Bears Videoboard Open from Rommel Paraiso on Vimeo.

2008 Chicago Bears Network from Rommel Paraiso on Vimeo.

Garus Booth – Plays of the year from Garus Booth on Vimeo.
Thanks Garus for contributing. Looks great, what did you use? Cinema 4D?

My new year’s resolution is to update this site every work day (M-Fri). But, it’s tough to find worthy posts. So thats why I’ve decided to offer free posts in the Featured section to anyone that offers a link to their work. Ideally that means everyday there will be a new “Featured” contributor in the 5 rotating featured section at the top of the home page. Even if you’re a big company, if you send me you’re work, you go straight to the top of this blog.

So send me you’re demo reel, player intro, in-game feature or edited tribute video. Or better yet, upload them to Vimeo or Youtube and send me the link. That way, if for some reason you’re asked to remove your work, you have control over your videos. (*cough)

I can’t wait to see you’re new work, good luck in 2009.

Roman Farias along with Justin Tuazon and everyone else at the Chicago White sox did a great job on this in-game video for game one of the Cubs/Sox series last season. 

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Old news here, but my buddy Ben just found out that mfactor did those sweet lower thirds on Fox’s NFL sunday. Unfortunately, the site is all flash so I can’t link to any of there work directly. But check out it.

Anamorphic Lens flares galore. I (much like sports graphics) am a huge fan of lens flares. So, seeing something like this, that uses them elegantly, is great. I especially like the tiny pieces of particulate matter floating around each scene. Nice stuff.

Another nice BCS animation from Fox Sports Graphics.

This shot reminded me of the tutorial on FXphd After Effects 302 in which they teach you how to comp together a helecopter shot with a few green screened shots of dudes running. I’m not presuming that Fox Sports used the FXphd technique, but if you want to know how to do something close to this. Check it out. 

Really nice process from Justin Bates. Check out his site. I love these kinds of “how-to” or “our process” videos. What the technical term for that? Check out Justin’s C4D section for some great thinking particles inspiration. 

Credits:

Design and 3D Visual Effects – Justin Bates

Senior Flame Visual Effects Artist – Matt Butcher

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