animation | Taquet Film

As a director of animation, my strengths are my understanding of storytelling and visual narrative. I bring creativity and innovation, constantly pushing the boundaries of techniques and styles to create visually stunning and memorable work. I animated everything below myself. I also designed and modeled everything. I have many more examples upon request.

The massive new exterior jumbotron at Georgia Aquarium wraps around 2 different walls. I created some CGI content so that if you stand on the sidewalk and look up, it appears that you have a 3D look into the aquarium. It's an optical illusion. These are quick, mocked-up exports for the website (the aquarium wall is obviously fake) but next time I go down there I am going to shoot some actual video of the animations playing. There was a lot of measuring and scientific angles and trigonometry involved in these. See below for some of the brain-busting science. Also, these are all loopable but shortened for gif reasons.

Here's a look at the virtual template I set up with the angles all measured out. That virtual camera is not randomly placed, rather, it followed a very specific series of measurements to get it just right.

Angle of view vs. height and widths of the 2-sided jumbotron vs. distance from jumbotron...just thinking about this is making my head hurt again.

These sidewalk perspective paintings were key to cracking the mystery of how to make the optical illusion work.

This is the 2-sided jumbotron on the outside of the east wing of Georgia Aquarium where the videos are playing.

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I created a package of 2D designed motion graphics for Atlantic Station in Atlanta, GA. They play on the jumbotron at the center green and are sometimes updated.

I created this entire 3D, animated Holiday cartoon for the Atlantic Station jumbotron. It plays every year starting from late-November to January 1st... every night at 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, and 9pm.