Since we’re animating like crazy right now, I thought I’d post some of the reference we’re looking at for Buck and Gailord. They are different characters than what I’m looking at, but this will give you some idea as to what we’re going for in our segment.
Buck:
Gailord (mostly for surface treatment):
We’ll be posting some more work in progress stuff soon. Keep watching this space!
So we got out final board for our segment and our amazing production team turned out a stunning animatic before I could even post a page of the board.
The story board was done by the amazing STEPHEN DeSTEFANO. If you aren’t familiar with his work click on the link and check out his blog. The man’s a genius!
As for the animatic, well, here is a short snippet. And I mean short. When you are dealing with a minute long cartoon it’s tempting to want to show you the whole thing, but where is the fun in that.
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Bloggingly yours Manny and Alan
HERE you can see the early blocking of one of Kevin’s shots. It’s pretty early in the animation process, but I thought some of you might be interested in what the early stages look like.
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.
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.
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.
One of the coolest things for me about working on the “Six Monsters” cartoon for Nickelodeon is that John DiMaggio is doing the voice for Roy. John DiMaggio is the voice of Bender the robot from Futurama!
…and the penguin from “Madagascar”
…and General Grievous in “Star Wars: Clone Wars”
…and the dog from Pen Ward’s “Adventure Time”
…and about 700 other deep voiced cartoon characters from the last decade.
So listening to this guy read dialogue that I wrote for him is incredibly exciting. And now I get to animate his character! How cool is this?
After seeing Mike’s post of his Flavio sculpt, I thought we’d show one we did of Gailard. This early sculpt was done by Kevin Wisdom. The final character model is shaping up to look a bit different than this version, but there are some elements that carried through.
Here are some pretty close to final renders of what our set will look like for our portion of “Six Monsters”. Mike Kopa did a great job on textures, and got pretty technical with some of the water attributes. The refractive index of water is 1.33 (in case you ever need to know).
