Category: Legacy Effects

A while ago, Legacy Effects had me help design the square people for the 2016 Honda Civic Coupe “Square” commercial. Another Legacy artist, Jim Charmatz and I spent a couple of weeks refining the nuances of the characters’ features with the director. It was a challenge not to let the characters slip into the uncanny valley… creepy. Here are a few of the people I designed.

Here is the commercial:

Here are some makeup and wardrobe designs I created for Will Forte for DirecTV and AT&T’s “Seize the Data” commercial campaign.

Here are the commercials:

A while back I had the chance to help Legacy Effects design the Storm Trooper helmet for “Bullseye” the Target dog for their holiday commercial: The Star Wars Chase. I had to warp the geometry a bit to fit the dog, but we were able to get make it work, and still be comfortable for the pup.

Here’s the design:

Here’s the spot:

A while back, I helped Legacy Effects design a robot character for a Royal Caribbean commercial. I was asked to design the face and base of their robot bartender. He needed to be simple, yet able to display emotions as he searches for his perfect job. He also needed to roll around so I designed a number of wheel and base options.

Here is the final design:

Here’s the commercial:
https://vimeo.com/129233104

I had the opportunity to help Legacy Effects design the robot for the The Future is Now | Back to the Future Part II  Pepsi Perfect commercial back in October- 10/21/2015 to be exact. The agency wanted to go for a retro-future look to match the feel of the original film.

Here are a few designs:

Here’s the commercial:

Here is a griffin design I did for the most recent Lunchables Kabobbles: Cards commercial.  Legacy Effects built and puppeteered the griffin, as well as the platypus and the jackalope.

The commercial is pretty funny:

DirecTV retired Rob Lowe and picked up Eli Manning, Tony Romo and Andrew Luck for their latest commercial campaign. I had the opportunity to do the character designs for Bad Comedian Eli Manning, Arts and Craftsy Tony Romo and Out-Of-Control Beard Andrew Luck.

Here are the spots:
https://youtu.be/7f2mnPaFcn4
https://youtu.be/dfavFFw194A

Here is a 3D character of “Cavity Sam” from the Hasbro Operation game that I created for the recent Geico commercial: Operation: It’s What You Do. Legacy Effects 3D printed my digital model and then worked their magic to finish and puppeteer the character you see in the commercial.

The commercial is great:
https://youtu.be/8R0W5QqWjIg

Here is a robot or “Roboctopus” design I did for a recent Arco commercial. I 3D modeled this guy, and Legacy Effects 3D printed most of the exterior parts.

Here is Donnie, the Roboctopus is in action:

Legacy Effects tasked me out to sculpt Colonel Sander’s likeness onto a pitcher for the See What I’m Talkin’ About KFC commercial. I digitally sculpted Colonel Sander’s face, which Legacy Effects 3D printed and grafted onto a glass pitcher.

Here are some renders of the final sculpt:

This is a first pass at the pitcher, before I was asked to stretch the Colonel’s face onto the pitcher as seen above.

Here is the practical pitcher full of lemonade:
https://youtu.be/I2mXgoiBTjw?list=PLVe3u3tH4EZXzJy1bJGiaXCqIyvnZE0Ts