Demo Reel - Concept art, matte painting, environment modeling, camera tracking

                                

This is my latest Demo Reel of Visual Effects of 2012. Most of the works were developed for Globo Television, including concept art, matte painting, 3d environment modeling, animation and camera tracking.

Este é meu Portfolio de Efeitos Visuais de 2012. A maioria dos trabalhos foi desenvolvida para a TV Globo, incluindo arte conceitual, matte painting, modelagem de cenário 3D, animação e camera tracking. 

Demo Reel Rafael Falconi 2011

http://vimeo.com/27457572

Matte Painting - CG Workshop - art #2

                                                                       "Invasion in Rio"

I took a picture from my apartment and used the main scene to recreate an alien invasion with giant eggs that would infestate the city. I was inspired by the Starcraft concept of the Zerg. 
I used Photoshop for painting, 3ds max for modeling the eggs, the alien ground, water, mountain, buildings with camera mapping and rendering. The sky is animated in After Effects and rendered in max to integrate the scene, and the meteors were made in Lightwave. Final comp is After Effects.    

CG Workshop - Matte Painting - by David Luong - art #1

 

Matte Painting entitled "Nature Retrieving", illustrated in Photoshop, with 3D waterfall made with Particle Flow and Fume FX in 3ds Max, and composed in After Effects. The course was very productive and the interchange between students and David was awesome. Hope you like it!  

3D Tree models for 'Acampamento de Férias'

Basemesh in Blender, sculpt and texturing in Zbrush.

Matte painting process for TV Globo´s Junto e Misturado

I´ve done this just to explain the artistic process that is very common all around the world, integrating live action footage and CG Backgrounds.
I used Photoshop to paint and After Effects to compose this video.

Jan, 2011. TV Globo. All rights reserved.

Araguaia´s 3D storm scene

 This sky with lightning was made in Vue 8 and After Effects CS5.
Jan, 2011.TV Globo. All rights reserved.

Grande Família - Christmas chapter timelapse

I was involved in creating Grande Familia´s stockshots, in the first semester of 2010.
This one was made for a Christmas chapter, in December, 2010.
I used Vue 8 for the atmosphere animation (clouds, sky and sun), Photoshop and After Effects to match the BG lighting and integrate the scene.

Episode 1 - The tree of life - storm scene

I made different models of the tree of life for this project. In this shot, there were used 2 models. One for close-ups, with more detail in the displacement ant the other model was cut, to optimize the rendering time.
The stormy sky was created in Vue 8, with After Effects in compositing (lightning bolts and color correction).
The set was extended with matte painting in Photoshop and mapped in 3D.
There was also created a 3D model of the character (Lili), animated by Sid Ahearne, and to match the live action footage with 3D, I made the 3D tracking in Synth Eyes.

Acampamento de Ferias - Episode 5 - tree of life´s growth

3D animation of the tree of life growing. I used Lightwave 3D to morph different models of the tree, Zbrush to texture and 3ds max to shading and rendering.

Igor helped with the animation of the leaves falling.

Acampamento de Férias II

I was involved in the making of the Tree of Life, from the concept art to the construction of the 3D model. There was a cenographic tree created for some of the close-ups that was made using my concept for reference. Later on, this model was photographed and used as a texture to polypaint the 3D model and stabilish a harmony between the real world model and the CG one.
I worked as a matte painter, 3D tracker and painted the texture of the Giant Squid either.

Participei de todas as etapas da criação da Árvore da Vida, desde a criação da ideia conceito), acompanhando a construção do modelo cenográfico (para filmagens em close), e fazendo o cenário virtual da Árvore da Vida, em 3D.
Além da Árvore, também ajudei com matte paintings, tracking 3D e textura da lula gigante.

Com direção de Paulo Aragão, direção geral de Marcus Figueiredo e núcleo de Jayme Monjardim, Acampamento de Férias II – A árvore da vida, estreia dia 24.

Didi - Animation of Geremias duck

I participated, as long with 4 colleagues (Sid, Piolla, Pedro and Jan), in the animation of Geremias duck, which was one of Didi´s partners on this episode. We did the animation in Lightwave 3D.

DVD of Dalva and Herivelto - A love song

Globo has released a DVD of the Miniserie Dalva and Herivelto, with its 5 chapters.
I have to say it was very interesting working in this project, the quality of the material is very high. We could recreate Rio de Janeiro in the middle of nineteenth century with the help of CG, Clothing and Scenography in Projac.

Dalva and Herivelto - A love story written with music

I was involved for one month in Dalva and Herivelto creating the matte painting for the stockshot of Presidente Vargas Avenue and animating the cars in Copacabana beach stockshot. I had the help of my colleague, producer Gustavo Garnier. Needless to say that other people were involved, doing the matte painting, camera mapping, massive animation and compositing the scenes.

The adventures of Didi - Didi at the mansion of Cristóvao Gates

The adventures of Didi - Tatá in danger

I was involved in the creation of the environment for 'As Aventuras do Didi' (The Adventures of Didi), using references of the visual imaginary of the movie Avatar.
The floating islands concept, which is shown on other post, wasn´t used on this but I could take part of the rocks and trees to create another matte painting, for the abyss scene, at the end of the video.
I did two versions of it (in Photoshop), one is in the morning and another at night.

Design e ilustrações para o livro "Histórias Extraordinárias", de Poe / Design and illustrations for Poe´s Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

Projeto de conclusão de curso / Desenho Industrial - Programação Visual - UFRJ.
Bachelor Degree in Graphic Design. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Undergratuation Final Project 2008-1 Rafael Falconi

Fig tree / Árvore Figueira

Based on a photo taken in Florianópolis 2007
Ink

Face in glass / Rosto no vidro

Academical work - 2004

Sweeten with honey / Melada

Academical work - 2004

Bearded / Barbado

Academical work - 2004

Sweaty / Suado

Academical work - 2004

Penetrating look / Olhar penetrante

Academical work - 2004

Butterfly-Woman / Mulher-borboleta

Academical work - 2004