Showing posts with label production art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label production art. Show all posts
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Blast Off BGs
Hey People, Lately I have been working on a new short film with my awesome partner Kaitlyn Shepley. We are just getting into the animating part of it and I am almost done the backgrounds. After we finish moving into our new apartment this weekend we hope to start animating in full force and aim to get it done before the end of the summer. Anyways, for now I figured I could post a couple of the BGs that are pretty much done and hopefully soon there will some animation on top of them.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Gritty Western update, with production art
Here's some artwork from "A Gritty Western". This film may be the most ambitious of the bunch, and it's required a lot of retooling as we go. Making it all work in 30 seconds has been tricky, but each time we figure out a more economical way to tell this story, it feels like a breakthrough.
With a western, there's a lot of cinematic language to work with. We've all seen them, we have a common language we can take advantage of. It's using that common language, playing with the cliches, without falling into just that, cliche, that's really tricky.
Here's what Christina had to say about working on this film: After spending a year on a comedic film “Beam” which had energetic and exaggerated character animation, one day I thought “ I want to do a revenge story”. I decided a western is a good set up for a new experience. And it is. Suddenly we’re taking a more serious, dramatic and cinematic approach that is demanded for the film. Because this story has much much more subtle character acting, it requires more attention to storyboarding; triggering SO many feelings! Ultimately I’m glad I took this opportunity to forward my progress in creating stories. “A Gritty Western” is challenging and CERTAINLY a learning experience!
Brittany, Christina, and Tabitha are really busting their asses to make this film and to make it work. The board's been worked and reworked a few times over, but we're finally getting somewhere that I think everyone is happy and confident about it. I'll try to get the animatic posted for you soon.
With a western, there's a lot of cinematic language to work with. We've all seen them, we have a common language we can take advantage of. It's using that common language, playing with the cliches, without falling into just that, cliche, that's really tricky.
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| villain design by Tabitha Lambert |
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| stanger, design by Brittany Whittington |
Here's what Christina had to say about working on this film: After spending a year on a comedic film “Beam” which had energetic and exaggerated character animation, one day I thought “ I want to do a revenge story”. I decided a western is a good set up for a new experience. And it is. Suddenly we’re taking a more serious, dramatic and cinematic approach that is demanded for the film. Because this story has much much more subtle character acting, it requires more attention to storyboarding; triggering SO many feelings! Ultimately I’m glad I took this opportunity to forward my progress in creating stories. “A Gritty Western” is challenging and CERTAINLY a learning experience!
Brittany, Christina, and Tabitha are really busting their asses to make this film and to make it work. The board's been worked and reworked a few times over, but we're finally getting somewhere that I think everyone is happy and confident about it. I'll try to get the animatic posted for you soon.
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