Hey, PACO!
November 11th, 2006
Ok, this video is wrong in so many ways! I’ll warn you now. *Grin*
This was done for a client who owned a Mexican restaurant. He has a bartender who everyone knows simply as Paco. So the owner wanted to feature him. The rest is history.
I decided to create a digital, animated character. We were also on a crunch schedule. This was to start running during Monday Night Football, which was less than a week away. My wife designed the initial character on paper, then I modeled him in Lightwave. It’s similar to designing a puppet, except it’s all digital.
Once the character was done, I did a “matchmove.” This means that I had to match the actual camera movemements of the background plate to the digital set and CG camera. Once completed, I animated Paco and once finished, added him into the background plate.
Total animation time was around 2 full days (including modeling and animation). The rendering took a little longer, but we got the finished video to Comcast in time for Monday Night Football where it’s playing now!
