Cortland Bechtell

This demo reel showcases my recent work in After Effects and some work in Maya as well.
In each scene I placed icons in the lower left corner to show what programs were used and what work went into them.
The majority are my freelance work.

I worked on the design for a mobile game called Parallel Man: World Jumper. Here are some shots from the development of the game. You can see some of the animation I did for the game in my motion graphics demo reel.

Here are example panels from comic books I’ve worked on where I’ve done major art corrections as directed by the lead editor and writer to better match their vision to the final product.

These are example pages of my lettering and visual sound effect work I did on the FutureDude Comic Brainstorm and Parallel Man. I also did art corrections on nearly 3 out of every 4 pages. You can see examples of that here.

Here is a bunch of logos I made for FutureDude Entertainment to help them pitch ideas to studio execs. I ended up making many more logos than shown here.

This website was designed by me and Fredrick Haugen. Coded from the ground up by myself in PHP and WordPress. Total Comfort had many revisions for this site. Each one was completed within a few hours of the request and made live on the Dev version of the site.

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This is a pitch trailer I made for a property called Slingshot. I did all motion graphics and animation (including the opening and it’s sound effects). This piece was finished in about 2 weeks.

These are production paintings I did to help visualize how scenes might look in a movie adaptation of the Venus: Daedalus One script. I even modeled and rendered 3D objects for the movie to show in the scenes.

Space Base is a video I did for MorrisHaugen Interactive.
An idea for a possible web series pretending to be a show from the 70’s similar to the real show Space 1999.
I worked on compositing, timing, effects, motion rendering, molding and textureing, excluding lined artwork creation and still background assets.

This is a video I helped with for MorrisHaugen Interactive. I did several shots (rendered and composited) for a very nice animatic trailer to what they hope to one day be able to make into a full length movie.
I did shots 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 18 (the last one)

Buzz Aldrin’s website was redesigned with heavy custom coding, Megento Store integration and 8 months of extra modifications. This site was coded from the ground up by me in PHP and WordPress. The look is based heavily on the original site, most design was changing graphics into a tighter more streamlined interface.

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This is a motion graphics animation done in After Effects and Adobe Illustrator.
These animations are designed to clearly show users what to do when using the EZ-TAB machine.

These images were modeled and rendered in Maya by me, based on original concept sketches by Jeffery Morris.

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This website was created around the logo I finished for Energy Concepts, design by Fredrick Haugen. This site was designed by myself and MorrisHaugen. Coded from the ground up by myself in WordPress. The site was a success, Energy Concepts became more professional and modern and now has an excellent portal to it’s customers.

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This site was designed by MorrisHaugen and coded from the ground up by me in PHP and WordPress. The site was a success allowing Pilgrim Cleaners to look more professional and modern.

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This was a fully developed website that was made to modernize the Ventures RX website. This site was designed by MorrisHaugen and coded from the ground up by me in HTML. It gave Ventures RX a new modern look and feel.

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This is the logo for the company Energy Concepts. The idea was the brainchild of Fredrick Haugen and was realized in full vector art by myself. I also went on to code the website for them as well. You can visit it here. The logo was later re-designed by us to be much nicer and more modern.

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This logo was designed for the MorrisHaugen project Slingshot. Concept designed by MorrisHaugen and realized by myself in Adobe Photoshop. Below you can see a few iterations that I developed. Starting with the bottom and the final being at the top.

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This was a project completed by a very large team of MCAD students.
I took part in animating three scenes. The scene where the main character, Robert, is hiding the corpse of his friend.
The scene where the girl walks in on him rolling around on his desk and the very last scene where she stands horrified over his body. Enjoy this incredible endeavor created by so many students.

This logo design came about after the company MorrisHaugen asked for a logo that combined the M and H as a cube. It uses an isometric view and reflection.

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This site was designed and coded by me using Larry Smith’s logo and identity. This site was designed in PHP with WordPress as the underlying structure.

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Final animation for Advanced Animation at MCAD. All animation, story, sound, rendering and compositing by me.

These are renderings from a team project for a book about two cat’s who explore the moon in their imaginary rocket. The book was finished and ready to publish but never got published do to lack of funding. In the end our team was left with some stelar rendering and lots of fur shading and dynamics experience!

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Final animation for a collaborative class.
Every animator chose a section of a fake travel guide called “Big Circle Touring Guide” written by Jay Orff and turned it into a short animation.
This is the section called Theocritus Cafe. Materials used are pencil on paper and digital coloring. All animation and coloring by me, story read by Jay Orff.

This logo was created as a project for an MCAD graphic design class. The process involved viewing hundreds of images and creating multiple ideas to create a look and feel for a fictional client.

These are pages done for Comic 1 class at MCAD in 2006. ‘Blarg!’ Was a pre-written script that all students were given our part was to realize the visual the writer tried to convey. ‘Are you CRAZY?!’ was a project where we wrote our own scripts and then drew them. ‘X1’ was our final for the class a two page short comic. I wrote mine to start conceptualizing my ideas for my final animation project ‘Junk City’.

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A vector art eye, created for a project involving statement through eyes to create a possible magazine cover.

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Animation done in a group of four, myself, Andrew Chesworth, Matthew Ebent and Arron Quist. Aired on Nickelodeon in Febuary 2006.
My role was working on animation of background characters and coloring of animation cells, I also worked on the backgrounds.

This animation was created in 2006 as a final project for my 3D animation class at MCAD.
The project goal was to integrate 3D characters with a real background and pulling off a cute narrative.

Stop motion animation made for class at MCAD in 2007. This is one of my best examples of storytelling.

These various works were completed in one semester at MCAD. The class was designed to learn character animation, motion and grounding.