Archive for May, 2009

We’ve got cards!

The cards came back from the printers.

Mood boards

For this film we have chosen for a low-polygon graphical look. So the best thing to establish the overall vibe of the film, was to create some illustrator art boards defining this style of non-curved shapes. The initial moodboards will need to be translated into a 3d world, and the results of these tests will [...]

Character design

The character designs as we pitched them basicly remained unaltered for the film.
The concept for the styling of the main character was inspired by the look of our shadow in the califorian sun. The deformed proportions look somewhat cartoon-esque, with a tiny head on this stretched body and those big hands. Which we think works [...]

Storyboard

Every single shot, being around 160 of them, is sketched out over and over untill we were all satified with the storytelling.  Here a small impression of the big load of storyboards we did.

Lively discusions

Posing

PIVOT the movie

Pivot is a short animationfilm produced for the KORT! 2009 project.
Synopsis: When a man is witness to a murder and takes pictures of the killer, he has to run for his life. During the chase he is able to turn the tables and the prey becomes the hunter. All resulting in an unfortunate ending.
The film is [...]