////Animation Director/// Animator /// Illustrator/// Optimist////_______"Don't be discouraged, be INSPIRED"

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Wednesday 16 June 2010

A.T.A Development Work...

Thought I'd post up some of the concept/ development stuff I did for the 'Tag Attack'...... I didn't actually explain before but one of the main things I was hoping to achieve in my piece was the overall look & feel of a movie or mystery series made back in the 1960's. It's a very specific style of editing & acting; down to little details like editing mistakes, damaged film frames during transitions or cuts to a proceeding shot, even also to the way d.o.f is used [love it!]. Main inspirations on this were James bond flicks [Sean Connery] & believe it or not, cheesy Elvis movies from the late 50's. Also a piece of work that caught my eye last year sometime was illustrator Kevin Dart’s trailer/ titles for “A Kiss From Tokyo” animated by Stephane Coedel. Won't go into it too much right now but I absolutely loved it! Anyways, below are series of stages I went though leading up to the finished sequence.

///CHARACTER RE-DESIGN/ ROUGH SKETCHES///
Early on I knew I wouldn't have the time to put as much into the animation of the character as I would have liked, so dint spend much time designing him as a whole person. I knew he wouldn't move much at all so once I was happy with getting his face the way I wanted I just worked out his main pose & that was it; animating only his breathing motion & hospital gown umm... draping in the wind.


















///COLOUR THUMBNAILS/ BOARDS///
Again I didn't really have time to get too bogged down in detail with the development process so decided to just use these somewhat detailed thumbnail sketches as a final storyboard... [they made sense in my head]
























///FINAL BACKGROUNDS///
Photoshop- digitally painted 


















///BACKGROUND 05 time lapsed Artwork///



///BACKGROUND 04 time lapsed Artwork///

2 comments:

Christen said...

Looking rock awesome. It is always cool to see behind the scenes stuff. And nice sound under your background process!

... MaX said...

Hey dude!
Thanks very much-

You're right; I know when picking out dvd's to buy I'm forever on the hunt for versions with in-depth 'making of' documentaries. Just great to see the process of others! Would've liked to have been a tad more thorough in mine but I'll leave that for the next proj I guess.

I'm almost scared to think where the story's gonna go next... [shudders]