Long time no post, faithful blog followers! I can only give you excuses about how I'm really busy working on my book and stationary set, but excuses are not as interesting as stuff to look at. So here's a stuff to look at!
This is a short I worked on for Swarovski crystals. I did the backgrounds and character designs. The rest of the credit goes like this:
Directed by Courtland Lomax
Music by Brian Young
Compositing by Ethan Metzger
Backgrounds and Character Designs by Brigette Barrager
Animation:
Jennifer Hager
Jules Soto
Destiny Wood
Matt Pugnetti
Philip Vose
Courtland Lomax
Cleanup:
Esther Shin
Matt Pugnetti
Daron Nefcy
Destiny Wood
Congrats, everybody! It looks great! Now I must return to hunching over my wacom and drawing princesses.
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Saturday, May 01, 2010
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
after 100 years...
...the project that I worked on for Swarovski is FINALLY online!
I don't know why it took them so long to put it up on their site, but it's THERE, and you can watch it now!
RIGHT HERE!
Up to 2:53 is the part I worked on.
And now to answer any questions you might have, I've written a little FAQ:
You: "Wait, what did you do on this??"
Me: I designed the characters based on the crystial figures (which already existed...I had nothing to do with how they look) and did model sheets, and I also painted the backgrounds.
Y: "Wait, what is this for?"
M: It's basically a commercial for crystal figures. They don't have much personality on their own, so they needed a little help from good old animation know-how.
Y: "Did you do that whole thing???"
M: Nope. I just designed the characters and painted the backgrounds. Courtland Lomax directed/produced the whole shebang, Sean Jimenez drew the layouts and did story boards, Ethan Metzger after-effects-ted it (with help from lots of others!), and just about every animator I know animated a few seconds here and there. Unfortunately a whole lot of the folks who worked on it don't have a blog or website or any other kind of presence on the inter-webs, or else I'd link to them right now. Get with it, guys!
Y: "What did you do the backgrounds in? Is it paint?"
M: They're digital, 100%. I have like a hundred photoshop brushes.
Y: "What's Swarovski?"
M: They make crystals. Or, more appropriately, I should say that they manufacture crystals. They don't dig them out of the earth, they melt quartz and sand and colors together and then grind them down to make them amazingly shiny and pretty. They are very expensive. I've been to Austria twice and visited Swarovski HQ and stolen their markers and abused their espresso machines, and I love them for giving me the opportunity to do so.
Y: "Are you going to work with them again?"
M: Yep! I'm working on the designs for the next round of figures right now. It's fun.
Y: "Which one is your favorite?"
M: I really love how Emily turned out. Animation wise, Jen Hager hit the nail on the head with Marie and Pierre...they are PERFECT: they're on model, they move beautifully, and their acting is spot on. Camille is pretty cute too...I'm impressed with how she spins around on the lazy susan. Props to P.Vose for painting that slice of cake over and over again.
Y: "Where is this playing? On TV?"
M: No, it won't be on TV. It'll be on the website and probably in some Swarovski stores. Notice how there's no dialogue/talking/writing except for the cats' names. Swarovski is way international, so this could be playing in a store in Japan or Italy or somewhere right now for all we know.
Y: "Who did the music?? It's so charming."
M: My friend Brian! Check him out!
Okay guys, I know that the lack of images on this blog lately is way lame. I promise that NEXT TIME I post, there will be images aplenty!
I don't know why it took them so long to put it up on their site, but it's THERE, and you can watch it now!
RIGHT HERE!
Up to 2:53 is the part I worked on.
And now to answer any questions you might have, I've written a little FAQ:
You: "Wait, what did you do on this??"
Me: I designed the characters based on the crystial figures (which already existed...I had nothing to do with how they look) and did model sheets, and I also painted the backgrounds.
Y: "Wait, what is this for?"
M: It's basically a commercial for crystal figures. They don't have much personality on their own, so they needed a little help from good old animation know-how.
Y: "Did you do that whole thing???"
M: Nope. I just designed the characters and painted the backgrounds. Courtland Lomax directed/produced the whole shebang, Sean Jimenez drew the layouts and did story boards, Ethan Metzger after-effects-ted it (with help from lots of others!), and just about every animator I know animated a few seconds here and there. Unfortunately a whole lot of the folks who worked on it don't have a blog or website or any other kind of presence on the inter-webs, or else I'd link to them right now. Get with it, guys!
Y: "What did you do the backgrounds in? Is it paint?"
M: They're digital, 100%. I have like a hundred photoshop brushes.
Y: "What's Swarovski?"
M: They make crystals. Or, more appropriately, I should say that they manufacture crystals. They don't dig them out of the earth, they melt quartz and sand and colors together and then grind them down to make them amazingly shiny and pretty. They are very expensive. I've been to Austria twice and visited Swarovski HQ and stolen their markers and abused their espresso machines, and I love them for giving me the opportunity to do so.
Y: "Are you going to work with them again?"
M: Yep! I'm working on the designs for the next round of figures right now. It's fun.
Y: "Which one is your favorite?"
M: I really love how Emily turned out. Animation wise, Jen Hager hit the nail on the head with Marie and Pierre...they are PERFECT: they're on model, they move beautifully, and their acting is spot on. Camille is pretty cute too...I'm impressed with how she spins around on the lazy susan. Props to P.Vose for painting that slice of cake over and over again.
Y: "Where is this playing? On TV?"
M: No, it won't be on TV. It'll be on the website and probably in some Swarovski stores. Notice how there's no dialogue/talking/writing except for the cats' names. Swarovski is way international, so this could be playing in a store in Japan or Italy or somewhere right now for all we know.
Y: "Who did the music?? It's so charming."
M: My friend Brian! Check him out!
Okay guys, I know that the lack of images on this blog lately is way lame. I promise that NEXT TIME I post, there will be images aplenty!
Thursday, April 09, 2009
background sniplets
Yes I'm back from the dead! I can't show you anything that I've been working on for the past month, but I'll be sure to keep you updated when it's time for the book to come out, sometime in August. Now I can finally get back to normal (whatever that is) and start working my pieces for my show at Pehrspace next month. I've got lots of ideas piled up in my brain and I'll be busily planning and keeping the old blog updated from here on out. Yes, that means twice weekly updates again! Yay!
In the meantime, here are some snippets from the project I spent most of last summer and fall working on. I know they're not super exciting and dynamic on their own, but I swear they look really, really cool with the characters walking around in them. The project was supposed to be viewable online, but I sure as heck haven't seen it anywhere and I've been googling it like crazy. If it turns up I'll let you know.
Later this week: painting sketches. Yay!
In the meantime, here are some snippets from the project I spent most of last summer and fall working on. I know they're not super exciting and dynamic on their own, but I swear they look really, really cool with the characters walking around in them. The project was supposed to be viewable online, but I sure as heck haven't seen it anywhere and I've been googling it like crazy. If it turns up I'll let you know.
Later this week: painting sketches. Yay!
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