Timothy Mercenary ★ Motion designer for hire.

Montage Fall 2011

Timothy Mercenary — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:16:12 +0000

Info: A montage of selected projects up to fall 2011.
Role: design, direction and animation.
Music: “Night by Night” by Chromeo
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Timothy Mercenary Ident

Timothy Mercenary — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:25:37 +0000

Info: personal project
Role: design, direction and animation.

Block Stuck Struggle

Timothy Mercenary — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:03:07 +0000

Info: BluckStuckStruggle, a personal project.
Role: Direction, design, animation, music and sound design.
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Boujou to Cinema 4D export bug

Timothy Mercenary — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:29:22 +0000

I was matchmoving a shot in Boujou the other day. Though it seemed I got a decent solve, on import in C4D the scene appeared to be in a mess. All reference points were parented to the camera and the proportions were off. (see image below) Also when rendering a preview, the footage appeared to be offset relative to the camera solve.

After a bit of searching I’ve found a solution on the CGsociety forums that worked for me.

Here’s how:
* In Boujou on export camera, uncheck “Use format default…”, set “Start Index” to 0.
(this prevents C4D of having the first frame twice for the backplate footage)

* After export, open the *.c4d file in TextEdit (or whatever text editor).

* Replace & Find “Key -3.141593″ with “Key 0.00000″
(this removes a 180 deg. rotation on the reference points parent Null)

* Replace & Find “ParentItem 10000001″ with “ParentItem 10000002″
(this parents the reference points, parented to the camera, to the “reference_points” Null)

* Save all changes, and close file.

* Open the file in C4D, set the scale to “1000″.

* That’s it.

Hello world!

Timothy Mercenary — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:27:49 +0000

Hey y’all, got me a fresh new website, and I thought it was time for me to start bloggin’. So, I added a blog, and here it is… my first entry ever!
I often find myself spending hours to find a solution to a problem that I encounter while working on my projects. Sometimes good information is hard to find, or takes forever to go through. Most of the time the solution can be described clearly in a few short lines, and I’m always happy to find information like this. So I think I’m going to use my blog to share my found solutions, writing them up short but clear and perhaps saving you some time on your problem solving mission.

NAXT

Timothy Mercenary — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:27:15 +0000

NAXT logo animation
Logo design: Beeldgeneratie
Role: Direction, animation and sound design.
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Xing Pao

Timothy Mercenary — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:05:03 +0000

Info: Experimental ident for something Chinese named Xing Pao.
Role: Design, direrction and animation.
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JVN Bedrijfscoaching

Timothy Mercenary — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:24:11 +0000

Info: Animation created for JVN Bedrijfschoaching as an introduction for presentations and lectures.
Role: Design, direction and animation.
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Regio branding Twente

Timothy Mercenary — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:08:48 +0000

Info: Animation made for the kick-off of the new branding for region Twente. An initiative of Regio Twente, VNO-NCW and The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce.
Agency: Buro Blink
Role: Direction, design and animation.
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Wolf vuurwerk

Timothy Mercenary — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:36:42 +0000

Info: Ident created for Wolf, a brand of consumer fireworks.
Agency: TheLaundry
Role: Direction, design and animation.
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