VFX Breakdown | Star Wars Toy Stories by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA March 22, 2021 We recently published visual effects breakdown videos for the three short films in our award-winning series Star Wars Toy Stories. You can watch all three VFX breakdown videos here. Tags: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Autodesk Maya, Film, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Uncategorized, VFX, Visual Effects | No Comments »
Life in Reels Productions | Logo Animation by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA October 23, 2015 We recently had the pleasure of creating this logo animation for Life in Reels Productions in Carlsbad, CA. We’re looking forward to the release of their short film Night Terrors and their first feature-length film Carving a Life. The beautiful music… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Super Geek Film Fest @ Magic City Comic Con by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA October 13, 2015 Our short film Star Wars: A Toy Story is an Official Selection of the Super Geek Film Festival at Magic City Comic Con The convention is taking place in Miami, FL from January 15 – 17, 2016. We’ll post more info… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe SpeedGrade, Fan-made, Film, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Color Grading, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Star Wars: A Toy Story – Now on Google+ by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA September 20, 2015 Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story now has a Google+ page!!! Follow us for all the latest news. Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe SpeedGrade, Fan-made, Film, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Color Grading, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Retribution by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA September 10, 2015 Retribution is now on-line! We provided visual effects and motion graphics for this San Diego 48 Hour Film Project produced by the Happy CAMPers. Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Trailer | Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA September 2, 2015 Check out this trailer for our film screening tomorrow at the San Diego CityBeat Five Minute Festival. Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe SpeedGrade, Fan-made, Film, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, Trailer, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Color Grading, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
3rd Annual San Diego CityBeat Five Minute Film Festival by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA August 22, 2015 Our short film Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story is an Official Selection at the 3rd Annual San Diego CityBeat Five Minute Film Festival. Watch it on the big screen this coming Thursday at the Museum of Photographic Arts… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe SpeedGrade, Fan-made, Film, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
48 Hour Film Project, San Diego – 2015 by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA August 16, 2015 I had a great time with the Happy CAMpers screening our short film Retribution for the San Diego 48 Hour Film Project this past Thursday. Although we didn’t win, we had a lovely time doing it! Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Retribution | A 48 Hour Film Project by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA August 13, 2015 I had the good fortune of working with the Happy CAMpers on a San Diego 48 Hour Film Project. I provided visual effects and motion graphics for the film Retribution, which will be screening tonight at the Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15. Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Element 3D, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Star Wars: Episode V – The Toy Story Strikes Back by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA May 4, 2015 The STAR WARS TOY STORY SAGA continues with Star Wars: Episode V – The Toy Story Strikes Back. COMING SOON!!! We will produce this short for the 2016 Star Wars Fan Film Awards. It will… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, Trailer, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Nominated for Best Visual Effects by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA May 4, 2015 Thanks to everyone who voted for our fan film Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story. We didn’t win the Audience Choice Award, but we were nominated for Best Visual Effects at the Star… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Meet the Crew of Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA March 5, 2015 For our short film Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story, we enlisted the help of Carlos Grijalva and Robbie Tharp of Grijalva Films for our location shoot at San Diego’s historic Balboa Park. These guys are awesome! … read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Meet the Cast of Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA March 2, 2015 Meet the talented cast of our short film Star Wars: Episode IV – A Toy Story, which will be released on March 9, 2015. We created this 5-minute short for the 2015 Star Wars Fan Film Awards. Like our Facebook movie… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Coming Soon . . . March 9, 2015 by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA February 26, 2015 Check out this Facebook post from the San Diego Film Consortium about our short film for the Star Wars Fan Film Awards. Coming March 9, 2015 Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Star Wars Posters by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA February 26, 2015 I recently framed these beautiful Star Wars posters by Drew Struzan to use in a short film we’ll be releasing on March 9, 2015. I bought them when the Star Wars Special Edition films were released theatrically in 1997, and they were just… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Drew Struzan, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Star Wars, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
San Diego Film Awards 2015 by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA December 26, 2014 Check out this trailer for the upcoming San Diego Film Awards. I was lucky enough to work on the trailer with a couple of very talented artists: Aram Khachaturyan and Fernando Garcia. There’s still time to submit films for consideration! Tags: 3D Animation, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Trailer Posted in 3D Animation, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics | Comments Off
PixelPlex Demo Reel 2014 by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA November 21, 2014 Our new demo reel is now on-line! Inspired by the films Tron and Tron Legacy, we created a virtual world within which we show clips of some of our work from 2014. We were fortunate enough to have our reel… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Demo Reel, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
Horror / Sci-Fi / Action … Oh my!!! by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA November 17, 2014 This past Friday, November 14th, PixelPlex’s latest Demo Reel premiered at the San Diego Fall Film Festival at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. The evening’s program included short films in the genres of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and action…a… read more Posted in 3D Animation, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
San Diego Fall Film Festival 2014 by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA October 28, 2014 PixelPlex’s ‘Demo Reel 2014′ has been selected to screen at the inaugural San Diego Fall Film Festival being held on November 13 – 15, 2014 at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park! … read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Autodesk Maya, Demo Reel, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off
The Giving Tree by Raymond Montemayor San Diego, CA October 17, 2014 On October 10, 2014, I had the opportunity to provide live motion graphics support for the “Celebration Under the Dome” fundraising event hosted by the San Diego Public Library Foundation at the Central Library in Downtown San Diego. If you live… read more Tags: 3D Animation, Adobe After Effects, Autodesk Maya, Element 3D, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects Posted in 3D Animation, Motion Graphics, VFX, Visual Effects | Comments Off