Tim Ketzer, filmography

Tim Ketzer, filmography
unless otherwise noted, all work was done in Maya or Alias

2008

Watchmen

-location scouting / research (online and on location)
-photographing textures and HDRI images to be used in city matte paintings
-matte painging projection set up for complex city scenes, multiple projection cams with multiple projection layers
-modeling, lighting, texturing, rendering of buildings for matte painting integration

2007

Smallville (TV)

-modeling, texturing, animating, lighting on a variety of shots
-on set supervisor

2005

King Kong

-lighting of full stage and Kong on stage and jumping into the audience.
-lighting of the Brontos, Raptors and trees.
-lighting of bridge extension and cables behind Ann)

Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

-lighting on a variety of shots
-matte painting to digitally remove concrete steps out of shot plate

2004

Alien versus Predator

-modeling

Troy	-matte painting for multiple city/wall shots, texture painting -modeling, UV layout of Trojan buildings, props, and the palace of Troy (polygonal modeling in several levels of details while keeping the UVs, following architectural blueprints used by the set builders) -lighting -model of a crow

2003

Big Fish

-model, texture layout, lighting, rendering of a C-47 airplane

2002

Die Another Day

-lighting technical director on the "ice wave" sequence

2001

George And The Dragon

-model maker, suit performer

Germanikus

-nurbs model of Roman coliseum for set extension

Fear Dot Com

-textures, lighting and animation for collapsing ball
-particle system for cockroaches running across a room
-modeling collision geometry,
-tracking using Maya live

The Musketeer

-modeling of a grappling hook
-animating a shadow of a rope cast onto a curved tower surface

2000

Starhunter (TV series)

-visual effects supervisor for shoot in Canada

Tea Tattoo

-model and animation of a spider for traditional animator to use as a template

Catching The Stars

-model of a space station solar panel
-textures for a photo realistic Earth

2001: A Space Travesty

-model of a Space Shuttle, boosters and external tank
-textures for Space Shuttle

Otto, Der Katastrofenfilm

-model, animation, texturing and rendering of title logo breaking apart
-animation of people walking on the deck of the "Queen Henry"

1999

Vortex

-specialty prop maker: weapons, money chips, ID-cards, scanning bracelets

1998

Armageddon

-particle meteoroids
-model and textures for space shuttle thrusters

Sphere

-model of space ship interior following blueprints
-model, animation, textures, particles for space ship exploding
-design of "The Sphere"
-model and animated textures for control panel

The Truman Show

-moonlit water surface (Arete digital nature tools), moon and light beam

Hard Rain

-model and animation of birds flying
-model, textures, lighting of traffic lights

1997

Batman & Robin

-models, textures, lighting and animation of a variety of "Batarangs" and cables throughout the film
-design of "Mr Freeze telescope" barrel interior
-cgi debris falling down the observatory cliff

Spawn

-textures for detonator sequence

The Postman

-model of railroad cars and terrain for matte painting

Rocketman

-model, matchmove and lighting of CGI visor

The Devil's Advocate

-particle smoke (Dynamation)
-model and matchmoving of collision geometry

Air Force One

-model, textures and matchmoving of 747 tail fin to add bullet holes
-cgi debris to replace actual debris of model plane exploding

Smilla's Sense Of Snow

-textures and rendering of snow covered sidewalk

1996

Space Jam

-model of stadium, uprights, score board and parts of space ship
-photo realistic basketball, textures
-lighting of spaceship in tunnel (Renderman)
-stretching and breaking logo animation
-model of dog's teeth and gums

Jerry Maguire

-model, textures, lighting, animation of direct TV satellite using physical model as reference

1995

Flipper

-model of dolphin

For more information on the films listed above, visit the Internet Movie Data Base (imdb.com).