Filed Under: Animation

March 20, 2012

Galactic Adventures: Space Patrol

Click each image to ani­mate into a GIF.

I teamed up with my pals Glenn New­comer and Nicole Mills to cre­ate a short ani­mated GIF story for Ally Creighton. Glenn and Nicole are fan­tas­tic illus­tra­tors with a flare for design. They also are down to have some fun and try out bizarre ideas. I pitched them this story with direc­tions of what I’d like to do, and then wrote the copy. Their inter­pre­ta­tion of what I had in mind came out wonderfully.

Check out the full adven­ture here.

December 25, 2011

Holiday Video Card

It’s great to joke around over an idea, but to actu­ally com­mit to mak­ing some­thing out of the joke is really fun and inspires some unlikely ideas that you start to invest in. Turns out my room­mate Sean is pretty damn good with mak­ing clay fig­ures and when we added our friend Abiel to help us set up and shoot we were ready to carry our ideas out. I would like to make longer and more elab­o­rate ani­ma­tions another time. Had a lot of fun with this.

November 1, 2011

Logo Test #4

Play­ing with hair texture/movement and light­ing. The hair tex­ture was orig­i­nally going to be grass, but I ended up adding more length and thinned out the hair and it came out kind of mon­strous look­ing so I kept it.

October 26, 2011

Logo Test #3

This time I played around using the Sirocco Research Labs logo/identity col­ors. I’m not too happy with the speed of the rotat­ing let­ters and the fast motion of the rib­bons, but it was just a test using color, light­ing, tex­ture and mate­ri­als. I took it into After Effects for some color cor­rec­tion and addi­tional texture.

Again, I used a tuto­r­ial from http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/ for help on this. Really help­ful stuff if you are think­ing of try­ing out Cin­ema 4D.

August 24, 2011

Biscuits and Davey

I’ve been brush­ing up on After Effects and started play­ing around mak­ing title cards. I’ll snoop around for tips and tuto­ri­als for a while and ran­domly, but not usu­ally, come across some unex­pected inspiration.

Enter: Bis­cuits and Davey

Dur­ing my search for tuto­ri­als I stum­bled upon this inspired take on the intro cred­its to Short Cir­cuit:

Orig­i­nal opening:

This was done as a school project by Dave Mason who is Bis­cuits and Davey. I’m not exactly sure when this was made, but regard­less I think it’s inno­v­a­tive and very well put together and I would love to see more. I’m assum­ing this was also cre­ated with inspi­ra­tion from the Jus­tice DVNO video.

And just for fun here is an old mak­ing of doc­u­men­tary show­ing some of the behind the scenes con­struc­tion of the orig­i­nal Johnny Five robot.