Fox Netball ident for Fox Sports Australia. My job on this was to mainly work on surfacing and lighting. The netball was was textured in Substance painter as it needed to be rendered in 4K, and mostly featured closeups.

3D Artists: Parag Satyal, Grischa Theissen, Patrick Lloyd

Awards:
Promax ANZ 2023 Best Ident Design - Silver

Ident made for Foxtel 4K UHD Wintercodes F1. I worked on designing the livery of the F1 car and also did some additional detailing work on shots that Patrick Lloyd and Grischa Theissen had already done.

Art Directors: Radge Ratsaphong, Tim Buhagiar
Design Director: Sally-Anne Kerr
3D Artists: Parag Satyal, Grischa Theissen, Patrick Lloyd

An ident made to promo Foxtel 4K UHD channel. The shoe was 3D scanned from an actual shoe and then some additional texturing done in Substance Painter as the shoe needed to look used.

Jumping loop wasn’t a part of the ident, that just something fun on the side.

Art Directors: Radge Ratsaphong, Tim Buhagiar
Design Director: Sally-Anne Kerr
3D Artists: Parag Satyal and Grischa Theissen

This was made with a large team (for broadcast) and each of us worked on different shots. I worked on designing and building the CG interior set which had to match the actual set. My favourite detail about the set is that the family photo on top of the chest of drawers on the left doesn’t actually match the family on the sofa.

Creative Director - David Sparkes
Design Director - Sally-Anne Kerr
3D - Parag Satyal, Grischa Theissen, Joseph Pole
Compositing - Sally-Anne Kerr, Richard Grant, Tristan Brittaine
Grade - Tristan Brittaine
DOP - Ashleigh Carter

This promo had a very tight deadline and the shots were distributed among several designers. My job was to work on warehouse shot. The brief was to make the warehouse look like a something that Wes Anderson would’ve designed.

Awards:
2021 PromaxANZ Gold - Best Sports Promo
2021 PromaxANZ Gold - Best Image Promo

Creative Director: David Sparks
Design Director: Sally-Anne Kerr
3D Artists: Parag Satyal, Grischa Theissen
2D Artists: Gavin Tyrell, Morteza Shahbake

This was the first job I worked on remotely after we were forced to work from home when the pandemic hit in 2020. Three of us were involved in 3D work for this and quickly found out a way to collaborate using Dropbox. My job on this was to texture the helicopter and work on the last shot.

Director: Stephanie Reinboth
Design Director: Sally-Anne Kerr
3D Artist: Grischa Theissen, Rakitha Vithanage and Parag Satyal

Modelled, textured and lit a CGI house for the Lifestyle channel. The house needed to look like it had a face and would need to show basic emotions. I also needed to design the house in three different states of disrepair.

We went through several iterations of the house to find the one that looked very obviously like a face.

Awards:
Promax ANZ 2020 Best Entertainment Promo - Gold

Creative Director: Mikki Katz
Promo Producer and Director: Stephanie Reinboth
3D Artist: Parag Satyal
Additional 3D: Grischa Theissen

The ident is meant to represent a common thread among the show’s three flagship characters: Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Jessica Fletcher. Each each is meant to represent each of the characters.

I worked on Miss Marple ,Jessica Fletcher and the door scenes. All assets were textured using Substance Painter.

Creative Director: Mikki Katz
Design Director: Sally-Anne Kerr
3D Artists: Grischa Theissen and Parag Satyal

Saglo Samaj (सग्लो समाज) is a Nepali current-affairs TV program which focuses on solution-oriented coverage of issues of national importance. The central idea of the opener was to use diversity in fabric and topography to represent the diversity in voices and issues.

Directors: Eelum Dixit, Saania Shah
Art Director and 3D Artist: Parag Satyal
Original music composition: Rohit Shakya

My entry for Node Fest 2019 Ident competition.

Ident for Foxtel 4K channel to emphasize its sports content. The idea was represent all the sports that the channel would broadcast but subvert how it would be presented.

Concept, Editing and Creative Direction: Jean-Christophe Danoy
3D Animation, Lighting, Stage Design: Matt White
Texturing/Surfacing and 3D Animation: Parag Satyal
Additional 3D Animation and 2D Compositing: Jimmy Bruna

Launch ident for Foxtel 4K, Australia’s first linear TV channel broadcasting in UltraHD resolution.

Foxtel 4K is a general entertainment channel that equal focuses on entertainment programs, sports and music (mainly live performances). Because sports is an integral part of it, the entire channel was being broadcast in 50 frames per second (as opposed to 25 which is the standard in Australia). This meant we had to render the ident not only 4 times the resolution but had to render twice as many frames. And while Foxtel had made UHD promos before, 30 second full CGI in UHD 50p was a new challenge. To meet the deadline, we had to build two PCs with 3 GTX Titan Xp’s each and use Redshift 3D to render.

Creative Director: Jean-Christophe Danoy
Project Manager/Creative Producer: Stefanie Reinboth
Concept and 3D animation: Matt White and Parag Satyal
Editing: Lillian Wang

An ident I made for History channel for the 15 year anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

This ident won the following awards:
- PromaxBDA Global Silver 2018 - Silver: Special Event Spot
- PromaxBDA ANZ 2017 - Gold: Best Ident Design
- PromaxBDA ANZ 2017 - Gold: Best CG Animation
- PromaxBDA ANZ 2017 - Bronze: Best Design Without Footage

3D Animation: Parag Satyal
Head of Design: Michael Strelan
Creative Director: Sven Mueller

Tuesday Undercover is a promo for the History Channel’s spy-themed block. This was the first project I used Arnold renderer and Substance Painter. Although James Bond is the most popular spy in popular media, History channel strives for factual accuracy as much as possible. So we looked at tradecraft actual spies would use, such as the Russian Fjalka cipher machine and the American Recal audio encryption device.

Awards:
PromaxBDA ANZ 2018 - GOLD Best Use of Design

3D Modeling, Shading and texturing: Parag Satyal
3D Animation and 2D graphics: Michael Strelan
Edit: Alex Kery

I mainly worked with Geoff Thomson (senior designer/3D artist at Foxtel Entertainment) on this promo. The idea was fully formed by the time I came onboard and a basic test had already been done. Geoff took a video of the entire warehouse and extracted frames from which he photo scanned the location to give us an approximate size and scale of the location. I took several bracketed 360º panorama with my camera and stitched them up in PTGui to create a HDR pano.

Geoff 3D tracked the footage in Syntheyes while I sourced (some modelled, some from Turbosquid) some models and textured them in Substance Painter. We divided the promo into half and animated them in Cinema4D and rendered using the built-in Physical renderer. Geoff and I had to move to another project by then but Anthony Hayes and Tristan Brittaine completed the rest of the work (additional 3D and compositing/grading).

Awards:
PromaxBDA ANZ 2018 - Gold Best Image Promo
PromaxBDA ANZ 2018 - Best Visual FX and Compositing
PromaxBDA ANZ 2018 - Silver Best Entertainment Promo

H-Files was a themed image spot for the History Channel highlighting shows regarding conspiracy theories. Look is based on redacted documents from the cold war that CIA had begun declassifying recently. I bought a typewriter and filmed it to create the typeface and also made use of scanned textures to emulate the look.

Design and Animation: Parag Satyal
Edit: Jared Barnes
Creative Director: Sven Mueller

Awards:
- PromaxBDA ANZ Gold: Best Use of Design
- PromaxBDA ANZ Silver: Best Factual Promo

A series of Idents I made for A&E to replace the their old ones. I used Substance Painter to texture and rendered using Arnold Renderer. I also used X-particles for particle effects and liquid simulation.

Design and 3D: Parag Satyal
Concept: Michael Strelan
Sound Design: Simon Shipley

For MTV Summer of Music we wanted to create a version of reality where everything is made of paper, raw cotton and foam. We got the amazing Benja Harney from Paperform to make all the props with paper. The spot has 3 different shots combined to make it look like a single shot, the birds were stop-motion animated and composited.

Concept and Art Direction: Parag Satyal
Creative Director: Vanessa Zuppicich
Props: Benja Harney
Direction: Costa Vakas
DOP: Adam Howden
Producer: Neil Bessant and Leah Harris
Set Design: Jamie Craney
Makeup: Deborah Munday

Promo and Opening Sequence for MTV Fit Sessions with Adidas

Design and Animation: Parag Satyal
Creative Director: Vanessa Zuppicich
DOP: Cisco Corea
Production Coordinator: Leah Harris

An ident for CI channel about gun violence in USA.

Design and Animation: Parag Satyal
Concept and Edit: Louise Caro

A&E Battle of the Bosses was a highlight spot which focused on three local shows with very charismatic bosses. The idea was to make it like a rap music video, but there wasn’t any budget to shoot anything and the deadline with tight. Right around then, I was experimenting with creating characters in Adobe Fuse, using Mixamo’s auto-rigging features and using their mocap data (which incidentally has a lot of dance moves) to make the promo possible in a short amount of time. Then it was rendered in Cinema 4D Physical Renderer.

3D: Parag Satyal
Additional 3D and 2D: Michael Strelan
Script and Concept: Alex Kery
Rap vocals: Rupert Degas