Orange County Partnerships Virtual Tour | TH-Record

Yesterday we launched a project we completed for OC Partnership. Take a look at the press they recieved...

Congrats Everyone.

Times Harold Record Article

Special Thanks to all that worked on this project. You all Rock.

Orange County Partnership's New Website Design

8 Hats High had the privilege of designing Orange County Partnership's new website which launched today. Teaming up with Belsito Communication to program the site, the website not only boosts the Partnership into todays technology with its new design and functionality, but it has, by far one of the best databases for local business in Orange County.

Please don't be shy - visit them at www.ocpartnership.org and see it for yourself.

8 Hats High's Open Studio Event

8 Hats High Will be open to the public October 16th - October 17th 11:00am - 5:00pm as part of Orange County Arts Council's OPEN STUDIO TOUR. We will display how animation is created for cartoons as well as demonstrate our motion capture stage. All is welcome to come by.

See you there.

United Way's Imagine: Production Photos / Before and After

8 Hats High was contacted by the United Way of Orange County to enhance their new marketing campaign for 2011. They were looking for us to produce a commercial that represented how donations were used in the community as well as incorporate an aspect from the donator's perspective. We were given a quick debriefing on what it means to "Live United" and immediately - we began the brainstorming process and came up with some great ideas. Once we solidified an idea we were happy with, we presented it to the United Way and followed it up by creating a rough storyboard animatic.

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[ Rough Animatic ]

This gave everyone a good sense of how it felt and look before filming were to began.

Once approved....we assembled our team, scouted locations, cast the talent and we were off.

We decided the best format to shoot this project on was the Canon 5D Mark ii. (what a great camera). We broke out the cranes, steady cam's and the slate. :)

In the wee hours of the morning (6:30am) we set up our first scene on Saturday August 14th.

Our actors remained calm, cool and collected in the hot blazing sun. From Beacon to Chester, Middletown then Pinebush...

We worked our pants off!

[ our crew hard at work... ]

We setup a Green Screen in various locations for compositing reasons.. but as the day grew later, the wind started to pick up. So, we did the best thing we could... we made Phil and Kyle anchors. They were great at it.

[Arrr... Anchor away Maytey]

This scene was broken into 2 different sets. First we filmed the big reveal with nothing but a green screen, the actor and a fence. Second was shot in another location so we can recreate a graduation. [See the Breakdown is below for before and after]

We finished the Day off in Pine Bush around 6pm.... The follow day we filmed the remaining scenes of the spot.

Sunday, At New Paltz, NY - we had quite a challenge in front of us. We had to create a graduation scene, but all we had was approximately 7 extras that showed up.

[our graduates!]

So, we began and made magic happen.... (This was going to be some hardcore coordination)

and from that... after setting up the green screens, prepping the extras, playing musical chairs, eating pizza, drinking redbull and watching the rain turn on turn off... We made it all come together. Check out the 2 clips below for the Before and After.

[Before and After]

[Before and After]

We finished out the rest of the remaining video in our studio in middletown, NY.

THEN....

yAAAAAAy! that's a wrap!

We moved right into a few weeks of Compositing, Animation and Finalizing the Music.

8 Hats High is so excited to be a part of the Live United Campaign. It was truly an amazing experience! We really appreciate the patience and traveling that our actors had to do, standing out in the baking heat and our second day shoot - standing out in the rain and being ordered around! Thank you so much everyone for being the "magic" of our project! We also would like to give our "magicians" a big hand for putting this all together. Our crew did an incredible job with equipment, travel, weather and intense last minute situations, you guys all rocked!

United way - Give where you live.

This was a poster that we designed for the United Way. Theres no place like home, Give where you live.

Orange Regional Medical Center: New Hospital

Orange Regional Medical Center from Johnny G Junior on Vimeo.

Finkelstein and Partners

These Finkelstein and Partners commercials we animated won a NORI Award

Motion Capture Complete: Common Health.

8 Hats High completed motion capture work for Common Health. Working with Common health was such a pleasure. It is always great working with such creative people.











We are excited how everything came together. Please visit Common Health's website to see the final product. Great work Common Health.





http://www.commonhealth.com/

8 Hats High New Look

Getting Ready for a New Year and a New LOOK.

8 Hats High @ Clio Healthcare Awards

On November 13th, 8 Hats High had the privilage of joining our client (Commonhealth) at the first annual Clio Healthcare Awards . We were asked to setup a mini version of our Motion Capture Stage (thanks to Organic Motion) so that people could experience the process of creating there new Stick figure campaign. Their campaign is set to launch this December.

It was such a great time and our booth that we setup was a hit.

Thanks to Orangic Motion, Dominic, , Phil, Kyle and Commonhealth. It was a huge success.

Summer Workshop 2009

Its that time of year again.... Time to figure out what to do with all the free summer time. Well heres a thought... JOIN US for our 2009 Traditional Animation Workshop. We will be opening our studio up to young artist from the ages of 13 - 18 who want to learn the fundementals of animation. if you would like to learn more about our workshop, please check out our website for more detail.


http://www.8hatshigh.com

Ode to our Cyclo Wall

You're dimensions are
25' X 25' X 16'
You are bigger than us
but you aren't mean

We dream of dances
in paradise with you
We lie in wait
hoping you'll be ready soon

farscapes with unicorns
it's all possible to do
sliding down rainbows
we want to do it all with you!

We can't wait any longer
so hurry up and get ready
come along with us
as we begin this journey!


We are in the final stages to completing our wall. Just one more step!

Declare Yourself!

8 Hats High is proud to annouce our animation already in production. 2 x 2 min cartoons for DeclareYourself.com. Keep your eyes peeled for more information. Declareyourself.com ...

OH YEAH... JUST VOTE ALREADY.

MOCAP is coming!!!!

Decision: After many months of heavy, sometimes even violent deliberation and careful planning.... 8 Hats High has decided to add another member to the family. Finally, towards the end of April, we will be getting our first Motion Capture Unit called Stage!
Preparation:
We have been redesigning the studio getting it prepared for the arrival of the MoCap system and alongside that, continued building our cyclorama wall which is near its completion: (if you don't believe, check out the pic below for proof)














The other side of this studio, which in total is 3200 square feet., is where our system will be placed. We are also preparing ourselves by learning new techniques and exploring the exciting innovative world that is called 3D animation. Come step into the 3D world with us, it's amazing here!
I will keep pics posted so check us out!
Arrival: Sometime after April Fools Day!