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The attic

Michiel — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:38:45 +0000

Yes, animation production still takes place in the attic. But this attic is located in the Utrecht observatory! Looking for the stars!

3D Animation is still Paperwork

Michiel — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:30:42 +0000

As you can see, large sheets of paper are needed to animate in 3D.

long lists of scenes and checks to be made in the final stages

pc or mac? yes .. and Leitz! old school storyboard:

Charles on the run!

Andre — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:18:37 +0000

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

Andre — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:36:50 +0000

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

Floris — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:58:59 +0000

Work in progress of a truck model.

Work in progress of part of the harbour.

Mood boards

Floris — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:21:21 +0000

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 follow soon. Here a small selection of the boards without revealing to much ofcoarse.

Character design

Floris — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:01:17 +0000

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 really awesome and exactly what we were looking for.

We wanted the main character to be really recognizable and have his personal style in clothing. The design and colors are inspired by old russian cosmonaut suits. Look at those orange pants, who doesn’t want one of those!

Check this pair being sexy.

Style composition of our hero, and that yellow bastard.

Storyboard

kevin — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:29:49 +0000

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