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Fields
Photography, Photo Illustration, Digital Imaging
Date
2009
Sports: Building Block to Performance
- THE BUILDING BLOCK TO PERFORMANCE
Project collaboration with Sam Robles
This project was a proof of concept to help pitch a performance enhancing sports product. Sam shot the models in studio, and I created the stack of boxes in CG. I then retouched the models, added props and composed them together into a spread layout. The final images had logos and copy which I am leaving off for now to keep the product anonymous. The end result was a new dynamic approach to the companies innovative product line.
I would like to thank Sam for all of his hard work and his ability to take constructive criticism. Hopefully, his hard work will pay off in some future projects. 
Detail of Soccer Blocks
MORE PROJECTS:
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MUSICIANS #2
A series of images I have made with famous portrait photographer Paul Mobley. I am working with Paul on his "Musicians" Book project in which he is shooting artists backstage before concerts, in their homes and at hotels while they are on the road. Paul and I brainstorm before each session and try to come up with ideas that best portray their personalities and artistic style. Wether it's subtle color and tone corrections or full out CGi and difficult composites, we do whatever it takes to make a captivating image.
2013
Digital Art, Digital Photography, Retouching
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CELEBRITIES #3
A series of images I have made with famous portrait photographer Paul Mobley. I am working with Paul on his "Celebrities" Book project in which he is shooting celebrities backstage before concerts, in their homes and at hotels while they are on the road. Paul and I brainstorm before each session and try to come up with ideas that best portray their personalities and artistic style. Whether it's subtle color and tone corrections or full out CGi and difficult composites, we do whatever it takes to make a captivating image.
2013
Digital Art, Photography, Retouching
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MUSICIANS
A series of images I have made with famous portrait photographer Paul Mobley. I am working with Paul on his "Musicians" Book project in which he is shooting celebrities backstage before concerts, in their homes and at hotels while they are on the road. Paul and I brainstorm before each session and try to come up with ideas that best portray their personalities and artistic style. Wether it's subtle color and tone corrections or full out CGi and difficult composites, we do whatever it takes to make a captivating image.
2011
Digital Imaging, Photography, Retouching
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BUDWEISER: MLB
BRING ON THE CELEBRATION
Client: Budweiser
Photography: Tim Tadder
Art Director: Tony McCue
CGI Modeling: Benjamin Parry & Mike Campau
CGI Render and Post Production: Mike Campau
Photo Retouching and Compositing: Tim Tadder 2013 Advertising, Digital Art, Photography -
INTERSTATE BATTERIES: LASTS LONGER
Art Director Ryan Smith approached me with an idea for his client, Interstate Batteries, that was inspired by stories from actual customers. The tales consisted of cars submerged in water, left on the side of the road, or abandoned after an accident. After returning to these vehicles the next day, to the amazement of the customer, the car lights were still on. Taking these stories, we took a playful look at how Interstate Batteries last much longer than conventional batteries. Each image was a combination of stock, cgi and some photoshop wizardry.
Agency: Firehouse
Client: Interstate Batteries
AD: Ryan Smith
Retouching/Cgi: Mike Campau 2013 Advertising, Digital Art, Retouching -
THE FUTURE OF SPORTS
Sports Advertising Photographer Tim Tadder, and renowned GGi/digital artist Mike Campau teamed up yet again, this time on personal project, to create a unique sports series. Both artists explored sport in nearly every facet throughout their careers and decided it was time spin it completely differently. In order to create a collection of images that were not buried in cliches, Tim and Mike decided to create images voyeuring a new age of the genre.
Tim shot the talent in studio, carefully crafting lighting to match playing landscapes and props that were in fact to to be illuminated, all the while capturing the essence of sport in the movements of the athletes. Mike then created the environments and props cgi to match the same lighting and energy. Once the elements were all combined with effects and color grading, the team had a winner of a series. 2012 Advertising, Digital Art, Photography -
MOTION IN AIR 2
As a follow up series to the popular, "Motion in Air" , Mike Campau turned to the talents of famous sports and action photographer Tim Tadder. Tim, shot the dancers (incredibly talented group) at their studio, while Mike created the virtual sculptures cgi, and cleverly combined the elements in Photoshop.
Keeping the same premise as the original concept, Mike made each shape unique based on the dancer's personality, style, and movements in the air. This time more dramatic lighting and darker tones were used to better match with Tim's patented look. 2013 Digital Art, Performing Arts, Photography -
MOTION IN AIR
This series of images freezes a moment of time in each dancer's aerial maneuver, and turns their movements into static sculptures that represents their motion and style. Original shots were stock photography and stylized to fit within the scene, sculptures and sets created entirely CGi.
2012
Digital Art, Retouching, Photography
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CELEBRITIES #2
A series of images I have made with famous portrait photographer Paul Mobley. I am working with Paul on his "Celebrities" Book project in which he is shooting celebrities backstage before concerts, in their homes and at hotels while they are on the road. Paul and I brainstorm before each session and try to come up with ideas that best portray their personalities and artistic style. Wether it's subtle color and tone corrections or full out CGi and difficult composites, we do whatever it takes to make a captivating image.
2013
Digital Art, Photography, Retouching
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CELEBRITIES #1
A series of images I have made with famous portrait photographer Paul Mobley. I am working with Paul on his "Celebrities" Book project in which he is shooting celebrities backstage before concerts, in their homes and at hotels while they are on the road. Paul and I brainstorm before each session and try to come up with ideas that best portray their personalities and artistic style. Wether it's subtle color and tone corrections or full out CGi and difficult composites, we do whatever it takes to make a captivating image.
2011
Photography, Photo Manipulation, Digital Imaging
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CGi PROJECTS #4
Just a few of the cgi projects I have done over the past few months for some of my clients.
2012
Digital Art, Retouching, Visual Effects
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ARCTIC CAT - TEASER ADS
Periscope went on the prowl, searching for a studio to help with their pitch for a series of Arctic Cat teaser ads, and we were thrilled they tracked us down. Using supplied stock photos as a starting point, we created the eyeballs CG, exploring several levels of distortion until we found the one that achieved the desired "look." Then we manipulated the photos to match, stretching sockets to fit the protracted peepers, and adding other character to the critters. Everyone on the project agrees; the results are pretty eye-popping.
Client: Arctic Cat
Agency: Periscope
CD: Doug Mickschl 2011 Digital Imaging, Photo Manipulation, Advertising -
INTROSPECTION
Paul Mobley and Mike Campau captured celebrities in a more personal and self reflective moment. We hope you enjoy these images as much as we did making them.
2012
Digital Art, Photography, Retouching
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PEPSI ANTHEMS
When Pepsi and it's agency Tracy Locke, where looking to pair up NFL players and recording artists, they had to look no further than the team of Tim Tadder and SeventhStreet (where Mike Campau is Creative Director and Lead Artist). Tim hit the road and shot all the players and talent in studio while Mike prepared backgrounds in CGi for composite. All final compositing and color grading was done at SeventhStreet.
2012
Advertising, Digital Art, Photography
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BIRMINGHAM IN ADS
We teamed up with BIG Communications to produce these images advertising the IN Birmingham Guide, a local-composed guide featuring the "inside scoop" on everything the town has to offer, from "well-known favorites to well-kept secrets." Coincidentally, we used some of our well-known favorites and well-kept secrets to create the images, which feature CG type and boxes, other CG elements and photo assets, custom brushwork to tie it together, and a stylized background composite. We're happy to be able to say that our first collaboration with BIG turned out to be a HUGE success.
PROJECT: IN Birmingham Ads
CLIENT: Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau
AGENCY: BIG Communications
CD: Ford Wiles 2011 Advertising, Digital Imaging, Photo Manipulation -
SONOSITE ADS
When Sonosite wanted to take their line of products to the Hollywood stage and create Movie poster style ads, they called on the illustrative story telling expertise of advertising photographer Tim Tadder. Clearly the concepts needed amazing digital artistry, Tim immediately contracted the unique talents of Mike Campau to create the backgrounds in CGI and stock photography. With some added special effects and that Big Screen flare Tim and Mike turned their products into the blockbuster hit of the year.
Agency: TBWA / CHIAT / DAY
Client: Sonosite
CD: Steve Pashkoff, Jarid Rubin, Ron Castaldo
Photography: Tim Tadder
CGi and Retouching: Mike Campau 2011 Photography, Photo Manipulation, Advertising -
STRIDE GUM: TRANCE
Stride Gum Posters - In Store.
Photographer: Alain Desjean
CGI/Digital Artist: Mike Campau
Retoucher: Claude Lafrance
Art/Creative Direction: Lorne Covant 2012 Advertising, Digital Art, Photography -
CGi PROJECTS #3
Just another round of CGi images I have created for clients, self-promotion, and R&D.
2012
Digital Art, Digital Imaging, Retouching
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CGi PROJECTS #2
Just some of the recent cg projects that I have completed over the past few months... many more in the works! To see more projects like this, go to: www.seventhstreetstudio.com
2011
Digital Imaging, Digital Art, Photo Manipulation
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CGI SHOES
CGi SHOES: Testing CGi Footwear Scenes
2012
Advertising, Digital Art, Visual Effects
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2011 UU THEORY
I present to you my two entries into the 2011 UU theory competition. This years competition was a little different as there were some rules and guidelines to follow that somewhat restricted what you could submit.
First, the image had to relate to the city in which you live... in my case it is Detroit, the "MotorCity". Home of the once Big Three and a long history of automobile manufacturing. Detroit also had the first mile of road paved with concrete in the world, combine that with our music heritage and diverse community you have my two entries for the UU.
Second, the 3 finalists' artwork will be put on t-shirts for sale in the UU shop, so the design would have to work on white unless you wanted your final design to be boxed on the t-shirt... which I didn't.
Third and finally, the UU logo had to be used in some way. You could alter it or modify it, but it had to still be recognizable.
Thanks for taking the time to look and to find out more about the competition go to:
http://www.uutheory.fi/design/challenge2011/ 2011 Digital Art, Digital Imaging, Photo Illustration -
GRASS VALLEY ADS
Recent project for Nonbox and their client Grass Valley. Series of ads for their full line of products. www.seventhstreetstudio.com
2010
Advertising, Digital Art, Digital Imaging
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SONY PSVITA
When Deutsch L.A. was called on to promote the release of the new Sony PSVITA at the 2011 E3 conference, they turned to two veterans to pull off the impossible; four days of shooting, four days to turn around four billboard sized complex composites. Tim Tadder and Mike Campau teamed up to create the images of the PSVITA in everyday scenarios. Tim braved the streets of L.A. shooting day and night to get all the parts and pieces needed for the final compositions, while Mike combined all the elements and created the game consoles in CGi, with Tim putting his signature styling on the composed pieces just before the 72nd hour.
2011
Photography, Digital Imaging, Photo Illustration
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Dimensional Photography | Collaboration
Dimensional Photography:
Collaboration between Nicolle Clemetson & Mike Campau
http://www.nicolleclemetson.com
http://www.seventhstreetstudio.com
2009 Photography, Digital Art, Fashion -
CG MUSTANG MONSTER
MUSTANG MONSTER
A self promotional poster and desktop wallpaper based on the "growl" of the new 2010 Mustang engine. The car, chains and braces were all created in 3d, while the background, foreground and supporting elements were stripped together in Photoshop or created from scratch.
You can download the desktop wallpaper at:
http://www.seventhstreetstudio.com/downloads.php
2009 Digital Imaging, Digital Art, Computer Animation -
MORE is MORE
MORE
Sometimes "More is More" and that is exactly the case with this project. Periscope came to us with a new pitch idea, trying to "brand" the idea and word "more" to their client. With no comps or skinny lines as a go-by, we were left to our own devices. Using simpleCG and our innovative process we quickly turned out 3 of the key concepts, More Savings, More Green and More Choice. When it was all said and done, it left us wanting MORE.
to see more on this project go to: http://www.seventhstreetstudio.com/simplecg.php 2009 Digital Imaging, Photo Manipulation, Digital Art -
BLACK LIGHT
With contemporary environment and lighting, and a retro color palette, "Black Light" brings together the best of what was and what is to come. A virtual studio set was constructed using CGi and integration of the models (stock photos) were done in post.
2012
Digital Art, Retouching, Photography
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"RECHARGE"
Working together on a new collaboration, Sam shot this track star at rest with the idea to have him "plugged in". When Mike got ahold of it, just a plug wouldn't do... he proceeded to create an entire charging station cgi and finished it off with final lighting techniques and color grading.
2012
Photography, Retouching, Digital Art
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CGi PROJECTS #1
NEW CGi PROJECTS
Just some random assortment of cgi project done over the summer of 2010. 2010 Digital Art, Advertising, Digital Imaging -
ALICE
Alice finally caught up with the white rabbit in this series we produced with GFX International's Creative Director Eric Olson. Eric scoured the model scene for just the right Alice, and the sole bunny audition required no call back, but its agent negotiated for a few more carrots. Using the client-supplied photography we began style exploration, working with Eric to establish just the right feel. We created Alice's Wonderland entirely CG, adding ethereal effects that may make you wonder whether your tea's been tainted—and if the bunny in the bag doesn't pull at your heart strings, then off with your head!
2011
Photography, Digital Imaging, Digital Art
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INSANE CLOWN POSSE - ICP
Photographer Paul Mobley asked me to team up with him on a recent shoot, featuring Detroit's own hometown harlequins, the Insane Clown Posse. It was an intense process – and not just because they made us wear face paint and chug Faygo.
After some early brainstorming and pre-production meetings with Paul, we chose our strongest concepts to execute on set. We were on a tight schedule and wanted to capture as many shots as possible, so we decided to shoot ICP on green screen at their own studio. Then we went on to Greene's Hamburgers in Farmington Hills to shoot the diner image. Next, Paul spent a couple days shooting downtown, precariously positioning himself on the edges of rooftops and coming back down to ground level for shots of dramatic Detroit architecture. And finally, the fun part — putting the pieces together. I created the balloons, Bomb Pops, and color block background entirely CGi, then composited the rest using everything Paul shot in the city. He dropped by the studio to work with me on some finishing touches and overall style decisions, and after a ton of strips, a few sliders, and a little bit of face paint remover we were done clowning around. It was a great experience. Now if we could only figure out why people kept calling me a Juggalo... 2011 Digital Imaging, Photography, Photo Manipulation -
URBAN JUNGLE / SNOW JUNGLE
URBAN & SNOW JUNGLE
Samples I did using stock photography and my own images.
Desktop wallpaper available at:
http://www.seventhstreetstudio.com/downloads 2009 Digital Art, Photo Manipulation, Digital Imaging -
STAY GREEN. GO RED.
A desktop wallpaper and poster image for our 2008 "green" campaign. Also, an alternative wallpaper that is dark to help save energy.
2008
Digital Art, Digital Imaging, Photo Illustration, Illustration, Marketing
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WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
Waste Not. Want Not.
I produced this piece as a companion to "Stay Green. Go Red." Something that was visually and metaphorically the opposite of that piece... dark, dirty, polluted, etc.
for more info or to download the high res desktop visit: http://www.seventhstreetstudio.com 2008 Digital Art, Digital Imaging, Photo Manipulation -
2010 MUSTANG WALLPAPERS
2009
Digital Imaging, Advertising, Photo Manipulation
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AMERICAN FARMER - with Paul Mobley
When photographer Paul Mobley set out to capture the soul of our country's farm communities, he encountered an enduring rural culture that remains rooted in the principles of tradition, family, integrity and hard work. Traveling across the country from Tennessee to Montana, Mobley and his camera were welcomed time and again into the homes of over two hundred farm families, who graciously shared their personal histories and private thoughts, along with the fruits of their labor. Visit after visit, Mobley came to know the independent farmer's spirit from both behind the lens and across the dinner table. The result is a stunning series of portraits and direct quotes that collectively chronicle the life of the American farmer. Each image offers an unvarnished and intimate look inside the hardships and joys of a quickly disappearing lifestyle--one that once defined our national identity and now struggles just to keep a foothold.
2008
Digital Imaging, Photography, Digital Photography
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CAN AM - CGi
Our moms never let us ride ATV's when we were kids, so we were pretty excited when Cramer-Krasselt gave us a call to do the 2011 ATV lineup for Can-Am.
www.seventhstreetstudio.com 2010 Digital Imaging, Advertising, Graphic Design -
UUtheory: Developing the Double U
UUtheory Competition Submission
Developing the Double U 2010 Digital Imaging, Digital Art, Graphic Design -
CGi AUTO PROJECTS
CGi Auto Projects
Below are a few new CGi projects that I produced myself or with my team. Some are client driven projects, while others are just some conceptual experimentation. To see more work like this as well as other types of CG and Image Design go to:
http://www.seventhstreetstudio.com
2010 Digital Imaging, Photo Manipulation, Advertising -
PURE MICHIGAN: IMAGERY
PURE MICHIGAN.
Images created for Pure Michigan; advertising, outdoor and bus wrap campaigns.
Being a lifelong Michigan resident, I have great pride in this project.
Agency: McCann Detroit
Client: State of Michigan Travel
CD: Susan Stallings
2009 Advertising, Digital Imaging, Photography -
Human Displacement
This series of images makes a statement about the human form and the effects of nature, society and surrounding environments. In each case the human form was created in 3d then disfigured by a displacement map (created from natural and man made elements) resulting in something that is grotesque and beautiful at the same time.
2008 Digital Art, Illustration, Visual Effects -
Street Mimes with Paul Mobley
2008
Photo Illustration, Photography, Digital Imaging
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New Holland for TAXI
It was back to basics for this latest collaboration with photographer Paul Mobley. Recently he approached us with a project from Taxi NY, for their client, New Holland.
www.seventhstreetstudio.com 2010 Advertising, Photography, Digital Imaging -
TATTOOS with Paul Mobley
TATTOOs with Paul Mobley
Another collaboration series with famous portrait photographer Paul Mobley. I isolated the figures, retouched skin tones, added some more ink and created overall lighting effect. The end result is a powerful and beautiful display of body art.
To visit Paul's website go to: http://www.paulmobleystudio.com 2009 Photography, Digital Imaging, Photo Manipulation -
Lottery Kaleidoscope
2007
Advertising, Digital Art, Digital Imaging