Enter the Matrix - Jr. Facial Animator - Shiny Ent (2003)

For my first real career position, I helped process motion capture data and rig facial geometry for the dialog of in-game cutscenes for Enter the Matrix. I went through multiple hours and multiple takes of the actual actors reading their lines while all dotted-up with tracker points. One of which had received botox treatment before the shoot and required re-animating all of their eye brow data. 

The amazing thing about this project is all the hype that was around the Matrix at the time. ETM launched to coincide with the second film and was used as apart of the Wachowski brothers' trans-media experiences, along with the anime series, the Animatrix. This was the absolute peak of the Matrix hysteria where even Hugo Weaving was doing Gatorade commercials as Agent Smith. 

The cutscenes from Trinity and Ghost are the ones that always stuck with me... "You think it's crazy to believe it?" 

(By the way, sun-glasses are great when you can't get eye tracking to work)