Posted in Adobe After Effects, Animation Monday, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art, tagged animated short, animation, giant robot, jerry bruckheimer, photoshop on March 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I finally finished this animated short-short. It took me forever.I think I had the sound track done a year ago. Just been too busy to get all the pieces together. As with every project, I think it could be better, but at some point I need to execute it and move on. I’d like to [...]
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Posted in Adobe After Effects, Digital painting, Documentary, Food Fight, November Films, Photoshop Painting, animated features, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
I had the pleasure of creating a few minutes of traditional animation for a documentary made by Chris Taylor in association with November Films. It’s called Food Fight, and it shines a spotlight on American eating habits. They just launched a new website for the film and you can visit!
It’s one of those important [...]
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Once upon a time…well, a few years back anyway, I created a superhero duo called, Nausea Guy and Wicked Boy. They were your typical down-and-out superheroes. Living in a one bedroom in Los Angeles, they had given up fighting against the really big crimes in society and concentrated on things like; people with loud [...]
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Posted in Adobe After Effects, Animation Artists, Digital painting, Illustration Techniques, Photoshop Painting, Trash, You Tube, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art, character design, collage, illustration, mr. shrimp, online animation on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
The clip above is the opening 13 seconds or so from an animated project I art directed and animated…that never saw the light of day. Heck, it didn’t even see a light bulb swinging back and forth in the wind on a lonely front porch.
It was based on an idea from a very funny writer [...]
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Last week I think I called this Great Animation Mondays or something. Well today, it’s Old Animation Monday. I was cleaning up and found an old project. It was shot on 16mm at UCLA, and I hadn’t seen a copy of it since my first semester. Anyway, I ‘reshot’ it using iStopmotion and threw some [...]
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Posted in Adobe After Effects, Animation Artists, Digital painting, Paintings, Photoshop Painting, Work in progress, animated short, animation, farm painting, illustration on November 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have been working on a really cool animated segment for a documentary the past 3 months now. Above is another background for it. I will post more as soon as I can.
-M
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Posted in Adobe After Effects, Animation Artists, Digital painting, Paintings, Photoshop Painting, TV Animation, Work in progress, animated short, animation, animation background art, character design, illustration on November 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This is a low res of a piece of background art for an animated project I am working on. This has the animation layer set atop. It is used with a pan and slight push in at the end (in After Effects CS3 - I LOVE it!). Finished and painted in Photoshop from rough [...]
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