Gregory Ecker
shot breakdown of montage reel 5/2002
- what follows is a brief description of my contributions to the shots
in the commercials which appear on my reel (the short version).
The descriptions are in the order which the commercials appear.

Intel dancing woman -
	developed Mental Ray shader for the woman's hair.
Orkin man "stampede" - 
	developed a particle system which worked in conjunction
	with Softimage and Mental Ray (for the dust).
Primeco guy - 
	series of commericals for Primeco.  I wrote the Mental 
	Ray shader for the head of the Alien which attempts to match the 
	lighting of the live shot.
Sprint wireframe car -
	developed application/plugins to export polygonal models from
 	softimage/maya to renderman and render the edges of the polygons
 	with the renderman "ricurve" primitive, to allow for smooth antialised
	renders.  Also developed clipping plane shader for the reveal of
 	the curve itself.
Fox kids - see turbonium (below)
Volkswagen Turbonium - 
	developed "ribbit", a set of plugins and an application to handle
	converting softimage/maya scenes to renderman.  System enabled model, 
	animation and lighting setup to be preserved, as well as
	render distribution and many non-standard,  job-specific features.
	I have extensive documentation covering this application, named 
	"ribbit" which was used in over 20 commercials in the course of 3
	years.
Dodge Intrepid 2 -
	developed application (with others) to enable assignment of
	shaders for RGA's proprietary renderer to a car model which
	weighed in at over 7 gigs and could not be loaded into 
	softimage or maya (used in over 8 commercials).	
Duracell -
	animated in softimage,  lit and textured in "ribbit",
	(see turbonium above)
Oxygen -
	example of export of branch deformation to renderman.  Also,
	lit, textured and shaded within ribbit.
Intel dancing woman - (same as above)
NEC -
	developed software to load textures which were larger than the
	maximum allowable resolution into flame/inferno. developed 
	software to import animation from softimage into flame/inferno.
National Amusements -
	renderman volumetric shader,  camera animation export to 
	renderman.
ABCnews -
	see "ribbit" (above)
Sci fi channel -
	plugin to export/import camera animation to/from 
	flame/henry/inferno.
Oxygen -
	different shot of same commercial as above (see oxygen).
Duracell ultra -
	same as duracell above
Dodge intrepid 1 "pop on" -
	developed procedural animation of the car parts popping on.
Dodge intrepid 1 "engine put together" - 
	developed system (with others) to animate the car parts sliding
	into place.
Dodge intrepid 1 "engine clip" -
	developed system to assign shaders to the car parts, assign and
	apply clipping plane shader animation.
Volkswagen "pink moon" -
	software to massage renderman rib files generated by 3dsmax.
Fox kids pinball - 
	same as above
Intel dancing woman - 
	same as above
Oxygen 2 - 
	same as oxygen 1
Dodge intrepid 1 "pistons" - 
	same as intrepid above
Dodge intrepid 1 "crash" -
	same as intrepid above
Primeco guy -
	same as primco guy above
Primeco guy -
	same as primco guy above
Volkswagen turbonium - pull out shot
	developed particle system in perl to place all of the cars in
	this shot, and orient their sprites toward the camera.
Sprint wireframe 2 - 
	same as sprint above
Sprint wireframe 3 -
	same as sprint above
Dodge intrepid 1 engine - 
	same as intrepid above
Oxygen 1 - deformations
	same as oxygen above
Houston cellular -
	wrote software to take model exported from Rhino,  camera data 
	from softimage, and create rib for renderman render.
Intel dancing woman -
	same as above.
Volvo website shots -
	entire set of volvo cars rendered automatically for their website.
	Developed system to render all camera angles of all cars in all
	available colors almost entirely automatically (the only input
 	were the camera positions, the car colors, and the car models).