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CSI: Miami

Network: CBS
Years: 2004–07
Role: In-house team of two
Tools: Maya · After Effects

A kitchen erupting in flames

The brief

One of two in-house visual effects artists on CSI: Miami. Every week brought a new mix: matchmove and composites, fire, CG evidence, the show’s trademark laser trajectories, and medical animations that took the camera inside the body.

All shots were done in Maya and After Effects.

Matchmove & composite

A kitchen erupting in flames — Kitchen fire

Macro shot of a flask catching fire — Flask fire

Close-up of a mouth and teeth — Paint and animation

A body in a pool of blood — Crime scene

Aerial of a Miami causeway — Causeway

A car and debris flying through a hole in a wall — Car through the wall

Investigators by a glowing object in the brush — Glowing evidence

A boat smashed into a dock — Dock crash

Crime scene markers on a golf course — Golf course scene

A body on a morgue tray — Morgue

Two victims on the floor — Victims

Red laser trajectory past investigators — Laser trajectory

Investigators tracing laser trajectories — Laser trajectories

Laser lines across a body on a gurney — Trajectories on a body

Fire in a field beside an airboat — Field fire

CG evidence

CG knee implant in an X-ray view — CG bone

A CG drop of blood hitting a briefcase — Blood drop

Macro move across a stone spiral — Evidence macro

Medical animation

Red blood cells tumbling through a vessel — Red blood cells

Close view of red blood cells — Blood cells, close

Blood cells inside a vessel — Inside the vessel

Close-up of intestinal villi — Villi