Sunday, July 31, 2022
Thor - Love and Thunder
I was very lucky to help my teammates on this project. Great exposure to Houdini.
Thanks for the opportunity!
Sunday, December 27, 2020
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Avengers - Infinity War
Thanks for the opportunity to work on this project with pretty the much the same crew
that worked on Guardians of Galaxy 2. We were responsible for few characters on this
show, to name few, Rocket, Groot etc .. Lots of hard work and lots of fun.
MORE TO COME...
Monday, April 17, 2017
The Jungle Book
Finally got a chance to add this great trailer to my blog. I have spent over a year working
on this project with DD - virtual production. Helping with Rigging in Maya and Motion
Builder, as well as writing tools for our animation team and our pipeline.
MORE TO COME ....
Saturday, April 01, 2017
Gardians of Galaxy 2
Very grateful for getting the opportunity to work with Method Studios and its crew of
techAnim members. I have learned so much from these guys. Thanks for the opportunity.
MORE TO COME....
Thursday, December 01, 2016
Monday, August 15, 2016
Disney's - Beauty and the Beast
Had a chance to work on this amazing project, even though we faced some incredible
challenges, we did good! Shout out to all the talented people that have been part of this
project, have learned great deal about my craft.
Helping with costumes for the beast and hair for the beast. MORE TO COME.....
Sunday, February 07, 2016
Spiderman Bumpers
Helping with simulations of Spiderman suit. Extremely detailed suit (200K) points.
MORE TO COME....
LG - washing machine commercial
Some 228 simulations, 4 people, 7 weeks. Lots of work, good team to get it done with.
MORE TO COME....
Saturday, June 06, 2015
Hotel Transylvania 2
HotelTransylvania2 trailer from Rick on Vimeo.
Had an opportunity to be part of a team working on HT2 project at Sony Imageworks.Responsible for shot work on various characters hero and background. Super excited
to work with Brian Casper, Gavin Bagger and Chris Logan. The movie looks great!
MORE TO COME....
Monday, March 16, 2015
The Jungle Book - tool samples
The Jungle Book - Digital Domain/Virtual production. Responsible for developing and
writing tools for Motion Builder and Maya. I spent more time writing code in MB.
There are some examples of some of the tools I have written for the show. Was great
experience and steep learning curve. I appreciate the time on it. Made me understand
the application and Python in more depth. Also, credit to Johnny Zimmerman from DD
whom I had constant discussion about python. Miss that! :)
MORE TO COME .....
Monday, November 17, 2014
Maleficent
Maleficent with DD, responsible for Cloth and Hair simulations as well as writing
some intermediate tools for CFX pipeline. I was involved with the little pixies
characters. Learn a ton, worked with amazing talents.
MORE TO COME ....
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Crusaders
Had a chance to help few guys on this short film. Rigging and Animation.Think
the story is great, I wish/hope this will succeed in the future and will get pick up
by someone "big". :)
MORE TO COME....
Sunday, October 12, 2014
BattleBorn
Another cool little project done at DD, Video game cinematic for BattleBorn video
game. I was responsible for mocap retargeting and rigging elements in this piece.
We had somewhat finished rigs from the client so we used those to put the animation
on the chars and use them throughout the project. Some additional rigging was required
for the flying bugs. The whole piece is in slow motion. Animators spent quiet a bit
of time making sure there is no visible twitching or snapping. Rendered in UDK 4
at HD resolution and lots of elements were added in composting stage in Nuke.
MORE TO COME.....
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Lara Croft
Another piece we did for E3 @ DD. I was responsible for cloth along with few of my CFX
buds. Big thanks to Damon for being patient with me while asking a million and one questions
about sim rigs and his way of doing things. You are a river of knowledge my friend. :)
MORE TO COME .....
Sunday, June 08, 2014
Shadows of Mordor
Another piece we have done @ DD, this one was lots of fun, lots of characters and
character FX, cloth, hair etc... I was responsible for rigging along with A.Diamond and
I was lead for the cloth. I like the way the project turned out. There was lot's work
to be done on this. MORE TO COME ....
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Reel 2018
Reel 2014 - collection some of the projects I have been lucky to be part of. Much
appreciate the opportunity on each and every one of them. I have learned a ton
and hope to continue learning and producing better and better work . MORE TO COME .....
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
NBA2k14
Another cool little project we have done at DD, pretty small team on this one
I was responsible for developing cloth simulation rigs and some shot work.
MORE TO COME ....
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Ryce
Ryce - an awesome cinematic done at DD, this is just a piece of it.
I was responsible for the cloth setup and simulations. Building rigs,
challenge here was the layer clothing, very tricky with collisions and IP's.
Overall a great project, as always lots of fun with guys at DD. :)
MORE TO COME.....
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Murdered
Another piece done by DD, I was lucky enough to work with Adrian on this one as well.
Working on mocap setups, rigging secondary props and accessories, I was mainly
responsible for the hoody guy. Good times ! Thanks DD.
MORE TO COME .....
Working on mocap setups, rigging secondary props and accessories, I was mainly
responsible for the hoody guy. Good times ! Thanks DD.
MORE TO COME .....
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About Me
- Rick Fronek
- I really enjoy my work and studies.I love what I do and honestly,there is no better job than the technical/creative challenge of this job ....for me.


