6 Monsters

Here are the characters featured in our segment in color.

First up is the adorable Cathy. I tried really hard to color her head in a way that would be reminiscent of the vintage JACK O’LANTERN decorations I remember from my youth. What do you think? Did I succeed?

And here is Gailard. I really want him to seem like he’s made of a gelatinous, yet permeable ecto-plasmatic residue. I made an attempt to insinuate this by implying slightly darker matter at the thicker points of his body, like his skull, chest and “Popeye” like forearms.

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Hey everyone. Guess what? I’m really late to the Monster party. That’s right. It’s not just the Floyd and Dan show. I’ve finally gotten a chance to post some of the character models for our segment, called MATH LESSON.

First up, is Little CATHY, I pretty much embraced my graphic design sensibilities for our sequence and went in a very modern “retro” direction with their form and construction.

And here is Gailard. I wanted to stay true to Alex Kirwan’s beautiful designs but still put a little bit of my personality into the overall aesthetic.

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HERE is a tiny glimpse of the animatic for our section of “Six Monsters”. Even though we’re a computer animation place, storyboards, animatics, and the like are all very crucial steps in the production process.

From the animatic, we determine shot lengths, camera positions, rough blocking and staging, etc. Paper and pencil are very much a part of the process.

-Floyd