Showreel Breakdown
Here we go, the showreel is up!
I’m going to take my time and break it down for those of you who are interested. I know I’m not the only one who like to have a peek behind the scenes.
I have chosen to show two projects in this first version of my showreel. Not that I haven’t done more stuff, but these projects show more of what I actually want to do in the business and that is first and foremost animation.
So first up is the project I want to break down for you. I made this together with two classmates (Lucas Pettersson and Marcus Åvall). I’m responsible for 40 seconds of animation and 3 of the 4 characters that are in it. It was done in a couple of months, and was quite a challenge since this was our first real animation.
Having that in mind we created a concept that was open enough to interpret and go wild with. In this case the evolution of some missing links.
As the director, animator and designer of concepts and backgrounds I had loads off fun stuff to do. Since you’ve already seen a clip from the film above in the reel, I’m going to show you a couple of production designs and explain more about our approach.
I tried to capture the mood of the environment by playing around with shapes and colors. I wanted this to be a playful and bright film. The characters had to have completely different silhouettes and personas.
The environment was designed to match the characters. I really wanted this to feel like a separate universe, and to use a phrase used during the production - “feel like the Muppets invades the Nobel prize banquette”.
The backgounds were split in three as you can see below - foreground, middleground and background. That way we could easily get more depth in the scene.
Since the harddrive we saved the early animation blocking stages on isn’t with us anymore, I’m afraid I can’t show you any of that stuff. But I’ll make sure to take the animation I’m currently working on and break that down for you when it’s finished in a couple of weeks. As a matter of fact, I might even post some playblasts later on this week.
Until then, take care!
