Coming up next…Animation

We have finally completed our animatic.  Moving on to the animation production.  Check out  the below character from the show.  Her name is…..goat ..?

Updates on Shortfilm

After completing the storyboard, we are now working on the animatic. Pretty excited as we are moving close to the animation production. The storyboard turns out quite well and I hope we will have the same result for the animatic.

Produced some animation test the other day and we ended up adjusting the color of the characters. The initial look and feel for this project was meant to be rough, non-clean-up lines with uneven fills. I’d the impression that we had lost the look as we move ahead…maybe it is the character design or the treatment to the design.  Just like a typical production process, when you have the deadline behind you, you have to give up some of the “idea” visual and move ahead. However, we managed to bring it back recently when we experimented with the color during the animation.  Thanks to the team for the effort.  

Below you will find our main character for the story, Ben. 

My Four Legged Friend

We have finally completed the story for our short animated film: My Four Legged Friend. We started the story in early 2008 and had over 20 revisions on the story. We have build it up, breaks it apart, put it together again, break it apart again…… Making a 20 min + short film is not an easy task, especially when you have to split your time between commercial projects and this little monster. But I am proud to say that at least we are still moving on, slowly but steady.

There’s something in the water

This animated TV commercial features simple line animation as a bases for the TV commercial. It is interesting to see how animation could be used in such a creativity way. Although the commercial is nice to watch, I felt it could be done better to express the content of the commercial

There’s Something In The Water - The best video clips are right here

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Zoo trip

Say hello to the year of the Ox (although it has already been a month).

The company started off the New Year by visiting the Singapore Zoo.

It was interesting as we got to spend time with the goats and cows and bears and monkeys and more monkeys.

But! We weren’t there just to enjoy the animals and the scenery.

The trip to the zoo was actually to gather research for our current animation project: a 20min short film, which is set in a zoo. A very greeny leafy zoo.

The time spent in the zoo was used mostly to gather a lot of photos and sketches . The photos and sketches are all for the character and background designs of the short film.

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Character Design 101:Bears

In any animation pipeline, we always have the need to cook up characters for a short film, supported MDA and Singapore Film Commission. This unnamed bear character, is one of the more recent ones we are working on.

Beware of the cannon goats!

These are actually very small sketches, no more than 3cm tall per bear. The reason for the small size is to help lay out a good silhouette and not to concentrate too much on the details. These small quick drawings also help out in getting the feel and weight of the character, which comes in very handy when animating later.

Once we nailed down a few designs, then a larger and more detailed version is produced from the chosen designs and then refined to the final design to be used in the animation. At the same time, its also a great time to have fun when fleshing out characters!

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Stoneboy Website

We have recently revamp our Stoneboy website, go check it out !

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