Showing posts with label Progress Reels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Progress Reels. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The Café Kickstarter



The Café is an independent short animated film in Production by Dana Boadway Masson (Director) and Terrence Masson (Producer).

Dana has been working with professional animator friends volunteering their considerable skills, while Terrence has been using it as an interdisciplinary teaching project for his students at Northeastern University. A unique and successful collaboration so far!

They have launched a Kickstarter to pay professional lighting/comp TD's and get us wrapped up in time for the 2014 festival circuit.



3D Maya look development - Northeastern Univ. student work

Café sketch by Dana Masson and rough 3D model

Young Woman sketches by Dana Masson and Carlos Arancibia

Small Dog sketches by Carlos Arancibia

Look dev of Young Man's room by Jason Clarke

Gene Kelly inspiration reference



Friday, July 19, 2013

Ice Age:Continental Drift Progression Reel


Pretty tight to the storyboards!

In my experience, although the storyboards are revised and gone over and over before ever getting to layout and workbook stages, RARELY does the final animation ever look this much like the boards.

Maybe it's just too many cooks int he kitchen on the shows I have worked on?  For the most part, the previz is what I am given as the final staging and ideas and never the boards for this reason, and then MUCH can continue to change as you work on a shot in animation with notes from leads, sups, anim directors and the director.  

Anyone else have the same experience?