Super Duper Super Hero pre-production
Thought I'd share some earlier color development from the Super Duper Super Hero series.
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
Over the past year Ive been directing the animation on P.B.S.'s latest preschool show Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood at 9 Story Entertainment in Toronto. You can feel free to check out more about the show, including a few clips at PBS.org. Hope you enjoy it!
Super Duper Super Hero - Episode 4
Well its been a fun run, I'm pleased to post the final episode of Super Duper Super Hero entitled "Insector". Hope you like it and hope you've enjoyed the series!
Super Duper Super Hero - Episode 3
It's a fight against The Future in this week's Super Duper Super Hero episode.
Hope you enjoy it!
Hope you enjoy it!
Super Duper Super Hero - Episode 2
Im happy to post this week's episode of the Super Duper Super Hero entitled "The Super Villain"
Super Duper Super Hero - Episode 1
I'm really excited to finally share the first episode of my new web series Super Duper Super Hero entitled "Turtle Trouble".
Hope you enjoy it, and thanks for watching!
Hope you enjoy it, and thanks for watching!
Monster T
Here's a very poor I-phone photo of the TAAFI shirt I designed to accompany the poster. I thought it might be worth switching it up for the shirt to show a kinder, more gentle monster.
If you are interested in owning one, I'm not sure if they are still available after the fest, but if so I'm guessing it would be through www.taafi.com or possibly the TIFF shop (which is where they were selling over the weekend)
If you are interested in owning one, I'm not sure if they are still available after the fest, but if so I'm guessing it would be through www.taafi.com or possibly the TIFF shop (which is where they were selling over the weekend)
TAAFI poster process
With the TAAFI festival a few weeks away, I thought it might be fun to post a few examples of my process and how we ended up with the final version of the poster that we did.
I initially sent TAAFI some rough sketches of a few different ideas. I blocked in the color on a few of them to help get a sense of the moods each would portray.
After some conversation, we decided that none of these were really hitting the goal of TAAFI's directive, so I did a few more quick sketches including this one below which we ended up moving forward with. Although its extremely loose and rough, I realize I kept surprisingly close to this in the final version. This sketchy bunch of scribbles was done in Sketchbook pro.
Once we were all on the same page with the idea, I started cleaning up the line art in Flash using the brush tool and putting some structure to the shapes.
Here is my first pass to block in the color. Again, this was all done in Flash with the paint bucket tool. I had a few different color ideas at this point, including the "Tribe Called Quest" inspired version below. I kinda dug that version myself but the consensus was to move forward with the more natural color style seen here.
And here is the final version with all the shades and colors that I ended up revising along the way. One of the big challenges at this stage was the request to lay the logo on a white background, but in hindsight I think having to revise the BG to compensate for this ended up really helping the poster. Again, the remainder of the coloring was done in Flash with the help if the gradient paint tool and I ran the final export through Photoshop once I was done to punch up a few of the values.
Now if I could only go back in and fix that blasted tangent on the tip of his horn...
News update
A little news round up with some people and websites that have featured my work over the past few weeks. A big thanks to all of them!
The state of Canadian animation and 3 animators to watch
TAAFI poster release
EO post on "summer posters"
An interview on AWEH
And last but not least, my film County Ghost #5 "The Gift of Ghost" will be available to check out at the "FILE" Electronic International Language Festival in Sao Paulo this July 28th - August 19th
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