I am proud to reveal the trailer for a personal short film that I have been working on in my spare time. It is written, directed and animated by myself so it is taking a while (4 months so far!) but it is a story about family, a journey, adventure and treasures that I really wanted to share.
Also here is a couple of exclusive stills for a sneak peek at some scenes not shown in the trailer. I will keep you posted on updates and the when(if) the film will be released / finished :)
OK... it has been ages since I last updated this blog :( . No excuses here, but I have really done a lot of travelling. I will try to catch up and have some posts about what I have been up to. First here are some animation snippets for a project that I helped out with.
This was a collaboration with Round3 Creative and my role was specifically to redesign, illustrate and animate the water drops characters to be used in a set of educational animations. You can see below a few examples of the characters that were redesigned for an edgier look.
This started as a joke with my mate Okayboss. We were raving about watching Game of Thrones every week and about the upcoming Fifa World Cup in Brazil. After the excitement over the subject matter, we thought - what do you get when you combine the biggest pop culture show of the moment with the world's biggest sporting event? This is the result: an animation piece which was a lot of fun to create in our spare time using the usual adobe creative cloud apps. Welcome to "Reos De Jajaereos" :) Featuring names such as Neymar, Messi, and Ronaldo cast as various members the Houses Stark and Lannister, and cameos from Khal Drogba, Neuer the Wildling and a very special guest from beyond The Wall...
I finally made a little compilation of animations that I have created from the past few years. It's like a mashup of all the little bits and pieces of animations that I had fun crafting at the design studios I was working for and for personal experiments as well. Music is by The Glitch Mob - Warrior Concerto - Free DL. Enjoy!
After the pitch and approval of the concept, the process continued by using the storyboard to create an animatic in sync with the music provided by STUDIO.
Using the footage from the audition of the chosen dancer (talented Michael Marmolejos), I created a quick edit to identify the dance moves that would best fit the concept and the flow of the music.
After that, all the magic is done on the computer. Editing, green screen replacement, colour correction, special effects and frame-by-frame animation took a while but it was great to see the final piece on TV in the end. Happy.
The Foxtel channel STUDIO invited creatives all over the Australia to submit their ideas for a TV commercial to bring the STUDIO brand to life.
This was the opportunity to pitch a unique concept. My concept combines two unrelated art forms to visually form the STUDIO logo and is one of the three finalists selected to be broadcasted on TV. The development process from the moment of the initial pitch up to the final delivery was a wonderful journey as I was creatively involved in every steps of the way.
Even though my entry was not the winning one, it was an enriching experience to be able to actively contribute to tasks such as drawing up the storyboard, directing the shoot, animating during the post production phase and collaborate with a TV channel crew. I will share some blog posts about the process in the not too distant future.
More about the competition organised by STUDIO and The Loop can be found here. Also there is a behind the scene video below with an interview video of the three finalists including myself. Laughs guaranteed :)
This is the latest short animation I worked on with ZZZ Collective entitled By Airmail.
By Airmail was fully animated in Flash and some additional elements in 3ds Max. Then it was all compiled in After Effects for some special visual treatment.
Yay the entry that you can watch above has been selected as the winner for this month's Loop de Loop competition! It was FRANTIC to come up and create this piece as I left it to the last minute but it was worth it and it suited the theme! :) I'll write up some making-of next... stay tuned..
My contribution to the To This Day Project. It was a humbling experience to collaborate with so many talented animators around the world to bring this piece to life. Kudos to the team behind the project and to Shane Koyczan for his beautiful poem.
This little video shows the process through I went to create my LoopdeLoop runner-up entry
For October the theme was FUTURE. After a quick brainstorming session, I had a few fun ideas in mind but I opted for something fun as I knew that I could only spend a few days on designing and animating. I kept things simple and fun.
After I settled on the idea that I had, I gathered as much references as possible. All sorts of references, and that included a video of myself.
Then I blocked out the rough timing, to build on that up until the final version all in Flash...
This is the movie that inspired me (Note the pink hover board!):
As usuals a few ideas popped into my mind but this time I decided to do something about it and actually create something for fun. The Hover Board chase scene from the movie Back to the Future 2 is so memorable for me that I wanted to pay an homage to it and craft an animation about hover boards.
