Hugh Hefner’s “Girls Next Door” Call On nailgun

The new season of the popular “Girl’s Next Door” Reality show on E!, featuring Hugh Hefner and his cadre of girlfriends, features a new collection of women and therefore needed a new opening sequence.  Armed with some high-resolution photographs and powerful photo editing software, the guys at nailgun were able to accomplish the task.

“This one was much more complex creatively and technically then the last ‘Girls Next Door’ open,” Erik van der Wilden, nailgun’s Director of Editorial and Animation adds. “To really get this to move in the smooth way we envisioned meant a lot of rotoscoping and compositing work, and some long renders thanks to HD photos of 4,000 pixels and larger. But in the end it was very satisfying — you don’t often get the chance to revisit and improve upon something successful that you did five years ago, but that’s what we were able to do with this.”

via “The Girls Next Door” Call On nailgun | CGnews.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .