Off-the-Pegs
Hey. Pencil tests. A round of tests arrived from Wang Film Productions late last week. We requested those scenes which might have posed problems for the animators so we could get a leg up on fixes and retakes. Since the rest of the show is due to arrive tomorrow, though, that plan has lost most of its advantage.
This short will be a talkie (and probably far too talky, at that) but these pencil tests have no audio. No text or context this time around. Instead, imagine the sounds of dueling bon mots, fierce oaths, and solemn gurgling.
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Back in March, I was having a tough time finding a character design for Conrad that didn’t make my face hurt. Cute woodland creatures are very forgiving subjects but funny humans? The drawings just wouldn’t click. Bland, awful stuff. It wasn’t until I stumbled onto a MySpace profile, of all cockamamie things, that I reached the present course. While I’m still not completely satisfied with the version, it does allow for the range of cartoony expressions and poses I was after. Thank you, Hirsch.
Final Color by Saelee Oh
Exploratory drawings of a Hirsch
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On December 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
great stuff adam!
-JX!
On December 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Wow that was amazing! was this inked in flash?
On December 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
The animation looks sooooo good! I love the clean-up line too..can’t wait to see this!
On December 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
very nice. who did the sheets?
On December 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
The sheets were done by Larry Leichliter. And from storyboards to animation, he’s been invaluable at every stage of production.
On December 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Awesome! I remember seeing some storyboards for this, can’t wait!
On December 14th, 2006 at 12:00 am
wow. i didn’t know you based the design on alex. hah. that’s great.
On December 14th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Really nice animation… So graceful. I can’t wait to see it finished!
On December 31st, 2006 at 12:00 am
Beautiful tests! Good job to the Wang team… and you too adam!
On January 13th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Hey Pat, while it may seem surprising that Adam would choose to base a character design on me, I can assure you that this is all part of a rivalry that has been going on between Adam and I for years. Most recently there was the character “Bambuto the Surly Deer” of CuddleBee Hugs’n'Such who, rumor has it, was entirely based on Adam.
Of course, this was me retaliating from when I caught him animating a double-jointed monkey for his Jabberwocky film whose hunched posture was clearly a direct assault on my own scoliosis-riddled back. And I’m sure the reason he did it was to get me back for my little-remembered freshman film, “Grumpleton the Brooding, Cerebreal, Antisocial Goat with Big Eyebrows.”
Rest assured Muto, that this latest demonstration of cocky oneupmanship will not go unnoticed! You will pay for your bravado! Pay Deerly….
On January 13th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Hey Pat, while it may seem surprising that Adam would choose to base a character design on me, I can assure you that this is all part of a rivalry that has been going on between Adam and I for years. Most recently there was the character “Bambuto the Surly Deer” of CuddleBee Hugs’n'Such who, rumor has it, was entirely based on Adam.
Of course, this was me retaliating from when I caught him animating a double-jointed monkey for his Jabberwocky film whose hunched posture was clearly a direct assault on my own scoliosis-riddled back. And I’m sure the reason he did it was to get me back for my little-remembered freshman film, “Grumpleton the Brooding, Cerebreal, Antisocial Goat with Big Eyebrows.”
Rest assured Muto, that this latest demonstration of cocky oneupmanship will not go unnoticed! You will pay for your bravado! Pay Deerly….