Volkertron: Morris lessmore

12-13-10

Hey dudes,

We did a lot of tweaking to the backgrounds on "Morris". With around 216 shots and a pretty small art department we had our work cut out for us. We had done some work on a color script before we really dived into the plates, and tried to focus each color space to fit the short narratively. Ultimately though it was up to the compositors to pull it all together, and I was honestly surprised how well the 3D and 2D meshed together. But I'm getting redundant.

You don't often see the backgrounds of this stuff without the characters and whatnot. (unless you follow this blog) Here are some shots from the film that I worked on. I think that no single plate was done by one person, and they are all about half paint and half footage. Hopefully we made it difficult to tell the difference.

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Thanks for dropping in!

-Tamte

11-12-10

Hey dudes,

We are previewing the short today!!!

...that means I can share a bunch of work I did on it. There is tons to show, and I'll be sharing more int he next week or so, but I grabbed a few things that I really dig for now. It was a great challenge designing for miniatures, and then learning how to build them (eeek). I can tell my mother that all those years spent in middle school playing Warhammer 40k weren't wasted. What I put together is sort of a concept to execution of the backgrounds we made for the short. Since we were mixing live action miniature and cg the real challenge fell on our tech department to bring the film to the final look, and I can't unfortunately share any of THAT yet, but I have a bunch of art.

so enough of me rambling, I've done a lot of talking about this thing in the past few weeks. Check out the stuff, hope ya'll dig it! Here is what has been eating up my life for the past year and a half. To give you sort of a scope of the work, these plates (backgrounds) represent three of the over 200 shots in the final film.

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