A selection of freelance projects I’ve worked on in VFX Animation.
A look at Saturday Night Live’s Mariokart trailer that went from script to screen in just 3.5 days!
I was responsible for modeling, rigging, and animating the piranha plant, as well as cleanup and rigging multiple scans of characters and karts.
For this project I worked on entire segments, concepting and building 3D sets, modeling, rigging, animating, rendering and compositing with a fast 2 week turnaround for the entire project.
If you’re in the mood for all of the zany, you can watch the full Xavier 2020 Commencement Speech here.
This was my first VFX assignment with Saturday Night Live. I worked on previz storyboards, rigging and animation of the skateboard horse. My favorite part was animating a horse doing a pop-shovitz 360 over Mt. Rushmore!
I received an Emmy Honors for my contribution this Season when SNL was awarded Outstanding Variety Sketch Series - 2022 .
This was a fun psychedelic music video project where I worked with Creative Director Jon Philpot to create an alien dolphin who does magical tricks to spin the viewer into a new universe. I rigged, animated, and textured the “many-eyed dolphin” and worked with some talented folks to build an AI-generated landscape for the dolphin to swim through.
A reel of my animation work from 2014-2018. Password for viewing available upon request. sam@crowpickle.com