Teapot

Hey all! I promise to start blogging fast and furious once more. I promise there will be more posts! Better posts! And lots more images up!

So to get the ball rolling here is Teapot’s mouth chart. Since I haven’t seen any mouth charts posted yet, I’ll explain…The mouth chart is a guide for the animators to follow when animating the characters talking, singing, rapping…or in any way enunciating. The letters “A”, “B”, “C”, do not refer to the sound the character is making but is just a reference for the director to use in timing notes.

Scan your eyes across the different mouths in order and you can see it roughly animated.

L8R,
Dahveed!

Here’s another colored image from Teapot. This is actually an older image. In previous versions Teapot had vinyl records all over his room as you can see in this pic. Since he’s not from the 80’s, nor a DJ, we have since lost the vinyl.

-D

Here’s the update on Teapot! Work on our end of the
process wrapped up for the time being. Our final
checking meeting went off without a hitch. All
potential timing and directing issues have been
addressed on the slugged board. Our last step was our
color check meeting last week with background colorist
Rae and character colorist Brian. All colors look
great as you can see above (Silkbone and Vixens
on music video set). I’ll be posting more of these
beautilicious colors very soon!

-Dahveed!