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Daniel Laney - Available for Work

@daniellaney.com

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Professional compositor, motion designer, video editor. Work: PHA - Castlevania, Masters of the Universe, etc. SEGA - Sonic Symphony Titmouse - LoVM, Pantheon Lex & Otis - ARK: The Animated Series Compositing director on animated short film "TINKERHELL"

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 10/11/2025

Same

My dog Speedwagon, a texas heeler pitbull mix, looking up wearing his birthday bandana looking very tiny

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 21/08/2025

This cut was a REAL challenge! For Nocturne Episode 3, we wanted Edouard to have a brilliant felt coat with a pattern, but drawing that would be very complex. In his big turnaround shot, I put in a lot of care to make the pattern have shape and dimension. Lotsa steps went into that. Take a look!

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 06/08/2025

I tend to be a yapper Lowest call volume of the ppl in your comments but not too bad eh?

Call time for Mastercard: 12 minutes 37 seconds

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 06/08/2025

Wanted to show off this breakdown from this TINKERHELL scene; it was real important to me that we establish this tiny thing as something truly unnerving when we get a closeup of her face so the post production REALLY went all out on this cut. Take a look!

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 23/06/2025

Oh hey! You can now find the full versions of the Sonic Symphony's lyric videos for the TITAN themes! I had the honor of working on two of them, Find Your Flame and the extended version of Undefeatable. :D The other two were done by @samprocrastinates.bsky.social and @kennieadventure.bsky.social

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📺 Music video distribution 🎵

The official music video for the vocal track that accompanies the boss battle in " #ソニックフロンティア is now available on Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, LINE MUSIC, and more! ✨

The game brings back memories of fierce battles with formidable opponents and last year's Sonic Symphony Tokyo concert...! 🔥

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 05/12/2024

One thing that often gets overlooked in the 2D #compositing workflow: Cameras! Sometimes you're provided a rough draft from production / pre-pro, and it's your job to smooth it out & take it to the next level. Check out the results w/ this cut from "The Legend of Vox Machina" Season 2! #animation

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 21/11/2024

With this cut in particular, since the image was a still frame, I had the liberty to go the extra mile and separate Lenore's hair into "fields," allowing me to give her hair some extra dimension. Last 2 images, you can compare not having that extra depth w/ the final result~!

An image showing a step of the compositing process for Castlevania Season 3.

This one shows a "layer" custom-made by the compositing artist, separating out the first layer of hair directly under her face & frontmost locks.

An image showing a result of the compositing process for Castlevania Season 3.

This one shows what the final production footage would look like without the extra layering described earlier. While the image certainly looks nice as it is, the hair generally looks a bit too "uniform," and the brightness overall--combined with how much of the frame it takes up--makes the hair a more likely target for your eyes, when the focus should instead be the character's face.

An image showing a result of the compositing process for Castlevania Season 3.

This one shows the final production footage, complete with the extra layering described earlier.

This results in an image that is far more legible, establishing a visual hierarchy with the right side of frame being brighter than the left side, while maintaining all the details and interesting elements established earlier. This approach has its own level of detial, layering the hair in a way that look more interesting than a single gradient or darkening the rest of the hair uniformly.

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 21/11/2024

Sometimes, #animation cuts are just a still image of very detailed #art. When that happens, it only makes sense for me to go a little extra! For one sequence in Castlevania Season 3, I was in charge of plussing a very... intimate moment, so here's some steps that went into that 😳🙈💖 #compositing

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 17/11/2024

If I had infinite time I woulda gone all-in with the rough pencil texture on the geldman, but I didn't want parker waiting on me to upload this 😂 By the way, the flare was set up to emulate how the sword glint *and* the extra flare on the right look in the artwork! (For when link raises his sword!)

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 16/11/2024

Slower breakdown of that one TINKERHELL cut from my reel, so you can get a better look at the steps involved. An example of how far you can take source assets and transform them into something wildly different! Pretty proud of the blood ground FX 🥰 #animation #compositing #horror #vfx #art

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 15/11/2024

Hi! My name is Dan, this is my reel! I've been working in digital media professionally over 7 years with a wide array of styles & disciplines, specializing in #editing, #compositing & all things #AfterEffects. Hit me up for anything! 💪 🎶 Arctic Monkeys "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 14/11/2024

Breakdown of an old Castlevania Season 2 shot I did, showing what steps go into the compositing process to make a shot look "finished" in an animated production. Thinkin' I'll be uploading more of these~ #animation #compositing #anime #art

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