Nick Constantinou MA(RCA) DIC MEng

Industrial Designer - Digital Designer - Photographer

Showreel

The video below is a showreel I made in January 2008 that demonstrates my capabilities in 3D animation. The software I use includes 3DS Max9, Adobe Premiere CS3, Adobe After Effects PS3, Swift 3D, Vray and Mental Ray. Although the majority of the work I have done has been mainly either product or architecture based, the skills are readily transferrable to other industries.

The music that accomnpanies the showreel is RJD2 - Gentle Rain

National Amusements' Showcase Cinema flythru

Inspired Gaming Group

National Amuesments (MTV, Nickelodeon, Showcase Cinemas etc) approached Inspired Gaming Group to see if we could increase footfall and dwell time in the foyer of one of their flagship cinemas in Bluewater shopping center. I modelled, animated and produced a 3D flythrough of the cinema foyer showing how this might be achieved. The first stage involved planning the layout of the area and locating INGG terminals around the vast space. We divided the area up in to distinct zones: Nickelodeon zone for children, MTV zone for music lovers, Premiere Lounge for priviliged customers and a competition zone for those wanting to to try their luck at winning great prizes. I then produced a storyboard for the film, planning the shots that would be shown in the animation and the path of the camera. The next stage was to create the animation.

This was the biggest animation I had produced to date and since no one else in the company used 3DS Max I was on my own. I set up a render farm of 6 computers and used Autodesk Backburner to control the rendering. I composited the rendered frames in Adobe Premier. The music is DJ Shadow - Giving Up The Ghost.

Coca-Cola vending machine designs

Inspired Gaming Group

I produced several animations of vending machines for Coca-Cola during my time at Inspired. Some are cocept designs that I pitched to them and others are of modified machines to demonstrate how the end-result would look.

Fruit Reels Animation

Inspired Gaming Group

I created an animated fruit reel whilst at Inspired Gaming Group, as part of the process of building up stock imagery and video. I modelled, animated and rendered in 3DS Max.

"Woosh"

This is a short video clip I made using Adobe After Effects. The "camera" zooms out from directly above my home in Ealing to outer space.

Coin drop

Inspired Gaming Group

I created an animation of one pound coins filling up a paybowl on an AWP terminal whilst at Inspired Gaming Group. I used the reactor plugin in 3DS Max to simulate the collisions.