Tag: Sesame Studios

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Elmo’s World

We were fortunate enough to produce six episodes for Season 53 of Sesame Street’s Elmo’s World. Each 5 minute episode had a mix of 2D animation, green/blue screen keying and compositing of 2D and live action elements. A huge thanks to the team that came on board to help with this production. They did a great job.

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Sesame Street: Celebrate Diwali Song! The Festival of Lights.

For this project I provided animated backgrounds and wipes. The animated Photoshopped backgrounds were composited in After Effects. I had to rebuild some of the lighting elements and use the “wiggle()” expression to have them twinkle. I also added lighting effects to the buildings for when the fireworks light up the sky. The fireworks were created using Trapcode’s Particular. For the wipes, the silks were created using Trapcode’s MIR plugin. This was the first project that I have used MIR. It has a bit of a learning curve but the results came out well. The colored powders were a stock footage asset that was keyed, retimed and recolored.

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Sesame Street:

Fathers (Friends Theme Song Parody)

Father’s Day Song

In this video I was tasked to add lighting to the 3D render of the water fountain. First I created a loop-able render of the 3D render. Then I used Projection 3D to create a 3D shape to roughly match the structure of the fountain using solids. Then I used that comp to project lights onto it. This worked well for adding more realistic lights to the contour of the fountain. I even added some caustics to the lights being projected onto the sides of the fountain as if the lights were coming from under the water’s surface. Adding lights to the water was just simple masking of the water layer and setting the layers to ADD.

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Sesame Street In Communities

For this project I was hired to do the chroma key and compositing of the puppets and design elements. In addition, I added animated leaves falling as needed to to correct issues with the blue screen or to add more leaves for a more visual impact.

From the Press release:

“At Sesame Workshop, we look at every issue through the lens of a child. Children are not colorblind—not only do they first notice differences in race in infancy, but they also start forming their own sense of identity at a very young age,” said Dr. Jeanette Betancourt, Senior Vice President, Sesame Workshop. “‘The ABCs of Racial Literacy’ is designed to foster open, age-appropriate conversations among families and support them in building racial literacy. By encouraging these much-needed conversations through Coming Together, we can help children build a positive sense of identity and value the identities of others.”

The new ‘ABCs of Racial Literacy’ resources launching today are designed to help all families celebrate their own unique identities, while also providing age-appropriate language and strategies to answer sometimes-tough questions around race and racism. In one video featuring two new Muppets, 5-year-old Wes and his father Elijah, Elmo wants to know why Wes’s skin is brown. Elijah explains the concept of melanin and that the color of our skin is an important part of who we are. In a new music video, the Sesame Street Muppets celebrate their own unique identities; the song, “Giant,” is available on all major platforms through Warner Music Group’s Arts Music. In another video coming soon, Rosita’s mom and her friend Sofia help Rosita cope with a racist incident in the grocery store, while also celebrating speaking Spanish. Additional resources include videos featuring real families talking about their experiences, activities for families to do together, and talking points and conversation starters for families.

Emmy Nomination

OUTSTANDING SHORT FORM PROGRAM
Ciao Alberto-Disney+
Little Bird-Vimeo
Rhymes through Times-Noggin
Sesame Street in Communities – Explaining
Race | #ComingTogether – YouTube.com
We the People-Netflix