Solomon Fix

This is a background design for the 3D boys to figure out. I’m mostly trying to communicate atmosphere and “feel” (and other essoteric meaningless terms). If I’m vague enough with my description, then I can always blame them for messing up instead of blame my own haphazard communication skills, this is an old Producer trick I learned from ‘the business’. I’m kidding (but kind of serious).

Anywho, with 3D a lot of detail can get overpowering so I didn’t put a chimney, mailbox, parapet, roof etc on the tree because it’s just supposed to be a simply beautiful establishing shot. This is the opening shot of the short, and I want the audience to be grounded in this rich, golden fairy-tale from the get go so I hope it works.

I’m doing these mouth positions for a chipmonk character in my short. The 3D guys are working on the model, and a great deal of the model’s rigging and construction will depend on the mouth positions. I knocked out this quick drawing to show the range of mouth positions that the modeler will have to take into account for his final sculpt.

Ted McHold is putting the finishing touches on the animatic, and no I’d prefer that you didn’t see it. We’re coming in at just about 7 minutes on the animatic, and it will be sent around to the legal department, Frederator and Nick execs for approval before we go to animation production.

I would have been blogging more, but I forgot my username and password and recently found them again.