Hornet “Pineapple”

Client: McDonald’s
Agency: Leo Burnett London
Animation Studio: Hornet Inc.
Director: Guilherme Marcondes
CG Lead/TD: Marty Geren
Modeler: Javier Leon, James Chan
Character rigs: VĂ­ctor Vinyals (farmer & monkey), JinLin Chin
Texture, Light & Render: Marty Geren
Animators: Bill Burg, Anthony Travieso

Character rigs created for Hornet Inc. for this McDonald’s commercial. The Farmer and Monkey medium-complexity rigs were built in Maya with the usual mix of blendshapes and free deformers, no facial GUI whatsoever. Total rigging time: 90 hours.