Archive for the ‘work in progress’ Category

The attic

Just a peek in the studio…

3D Animation is still Paperwork

Click to see some photo’s of the paperwork at the studio…

Charles on the run!

Here we have the big bad dude defying all rules and whatnots.
It was created during the R&D traject to test the deformations and visual style of the film.

Tim in 3D

Tim sees the day of light.. and is just as surprised as you are.

And this is the first animation test of Tim running.

Modeling

Work in progress of a truck model.

Work in progress of part of the harbour.

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