Laurent MAKOWSKI Portfolio

Reel Breakdown:

Matrix Reoaded
feature film
Buf Company
Modeling, tracking, lighting, keying, compositing
Buf in-house software

Johnnie Walker
commercial
TheMill NY
Surfacing, Lighting, Compositing
Photoshop, Mudbox, XSI, Arnold, Nuke

Allianz
commercial
Animal Logic
Lighting, Compositing
Photoshop, Maya, Renderman, Nuke

Kia Optima
commercial
Animal Logic
Lighting, Compositing
Photoshop, Maya, Renderman, Nuke

Hallmark
commercial
TheMill NY
Surfacing, Lighting, Compositing
Photoshop, Mudbox, XSI, Arnold, Nuke

Sony PSP
commercial
The Mill
Surfacing, Lighting, Compositing
Photoshop, Xsi, MentalRay, Shake

Bundaberg
commercial
Animal Logic
On set supervision, Lighting, Compositing
Photoshop, Maya, Renderman, Nuke

Comfort Creme Lounge
commercial
The Mill
CG supervisor, Modeling, Surfacing, Lighting, Compositing
Photoshop, Maya, MentalRay, Shake

Comfort City Stop
commercial
The Mill
Surfacing, Lighting, Compositing
Photoshop, Maya, MentalRay, Shake

Comfort Do Da Move
commercial
The Mill
Surfacing, Lighting, Compositing
Photoshop, Maya, MentalRay, Shake

Cheetos
commercial
Animal Logic
Lighting, Compositing
Photoshop, Maya, Renderman, Nuke

Guiness Pinguins
commercial
The Mill
Tracking, Rotoscoping, Surfacing, Lighting, Compositing
Photoshop, Maya, MentalRay, Shake

Drench
commercial
The Mill
Surfacing, Lighting
Photoshop, Maya, MentalRay, Shake

Acura
commercial
Animal Logic
Surfacing, Lighting, Compositing
Photoshop, Maya, MentalRay, Nuke

S1mOne
feature film
Buf Company
Tracking, Modeling, Roto, Modeling, Scripting, Anim, Surfacing, Lighting, Compositing
Buf in-house software

CommonWealth Bank Of Australia
commercial
Animal Logic
Lighting, Compositing
Photoshop, Maya, Renderman, Nuke

Finding Neverland
feature film
Buf Company
Modeling, tracking, dynamics, lighting, keying, compositing
Buf in-house software

Matrix Reoaded
feature film
Buf Company
Modeling, tracking, lighting, keying, compositing
Buf in-house software

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An unusual rodeo story,  my last project at TheMill London.

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I’ve spent a bit of time doing some research around HDR images and set reconstruction.

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A woman dives from a building into large bubbles, and music plays.

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What if a city was built around a football stadium ?

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Baileys is natural, yes it is.

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Our young hero has to be on time for his interview with his futuristic robotic boss.

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The story of a bear trying to seduce a doe, in a sexy and quite disturbing world.

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Everybody ‘s now dancing on Comfort ‘s new pop-and-bop promo-style commercial.

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A commercial for Audi.

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Another commercial for O2.

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Back to the cloth world, our hero is now made of blue jeans.

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A commercial for Intel.

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Bubble, call me bubble, everybody does .

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Penguins are known for choosing a best mate and have a long journey with him… but what for ?

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A full-CG commercial for Comfort, Unilever’s fabric softner brand.

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Some bored seamen are having fun with a car on a freighter during a storm.

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This was a very long sequence where we listen to the virtual actor with a linear camera move.

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Imagine, thousands of coloured balls bouncing in the streets in San Francisco.

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It’s Christmas eve and a turkey is about to be at the party… but only on the serving plate.

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Just blend creativity and very well paid football celecrities. You get: Birds shitting a football pitch.

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The story is about strange characters made of the PSP logos.

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The brief was to create a ‘mutant human foot’, which is a hybrid of a Nike Free shoe and an actual foot.

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Dyson ‘s new design is about a ball where the engine is hidden.

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Two strange cowboys find a giant jellyfish and bring it home to finally danse with it … weird.

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Two short commercials for the video game, Killzone.

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The main story is about money-trees. Yes, money grows on trees !

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The goal of this project was to fill a park, and by extension a city, with birds.  (ArcaEx is now NYSE Arca).

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My first job at The Mill.

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Most of the effect of the film were done by Framestore. But one small shot was done at Buf Company.

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The second of the Matrix serie.

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As usual, in Axe (Lynx) commercials, a guy uses some deodorant spray, and girls turn mad

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A very nice movie directed by Marc Forster.

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A group of young bikers in town, by night, reading strange messages everywhere.

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This was a very quick job for french elections in 2002.

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The last time I used a commercial software (Softimage 3.9) at Buf.

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An aircraft, a car, 2 pilots and a girl… this is what the story is all about .

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This is the second film I’ve worked on. “Le Raid” french comedy directed by Djamel Bensalah.

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Commercial for women make up, Bourgeois.

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A commercial for the Nintendo Gamecube.

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This is the first commercial I’ve worked on.

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My first job at Buf Company. Directed by Andrew Niccol. With Al Pacino, Benjamin Salisbury, Winona Ryder.

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This was my first job. I’ve spent a year in a video-game studio, Darkworks, and that was amazing.

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“Lucie” is a student short film made in 1999 at Supinfocom.

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