Monday 30 September 2013

The Nut Job trailer

So the first teaser trailer for The Nut Job, my first ever feature film, has been released. Unfortunately Open Road didn't do a great job with the teaser and it has received mixed reviews so far. What I can say with certainty is that the movie is better than the trailer. I'm really hoping that whenever they release a second one it showcases more of the films qualities and personality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcRk0zfGlnU

Wednesday 18 September 2013

Getting into Modeling

So I've decided to dip my feet into the intimidating world of 3D modeling. Let me start by saying that I am no artist. My drawing abilities peak at crude stick figures I'm afraid. This desire to tackle modeling has been instigated by the short film that I'm working on. I've quickly come to realize that when you're working on a film with little to no budget, you need to learn to do as many things as possible by yourself, rather than relying on others. I've scoured the web searching for some cheap, educational options for learning the trade and in that search I discovered Simply Maya.
 They have a series of free tutorials on everything from rendering to modeling. They also appear to have countless hours of tutorials that require payment but that are still very cheap. I'll post some updates right here and hopefully I'll start to see improvements in my work. My goal is to be able to model a lot of the props for the film myself!

Saturday 7 September 2013

Spark!

Once again it's been a little while since my last post. I had about six weeks off after production on The Nut Job wrapped up and I must say that I took advantage of having a free summer!

But now things are back up and running and I've started work at ToonBox again for my second feature film entitled "Spark". Once again I get to be part of a fantastic team of animators and my education continues as I'm learning every day.

Things are also progressing on our short film which, so far, nobody really knows anything about.
We haven't posted anything online yet as we're trying to keep the details as under wraps as possible.
However we hope to start showing the animation community what we're doing very shortly. Character designs are nearly complete and from there we will finally get our main character modeled and rigged. It's been a slow but exciting process so far and I must confess that I think about the film constantly. We believe that the story has real potential and with the crew that we've assembled so far I know that the quality of the film production will match the story. I can't wait to start sharing our film with everyone and hopefully recruit more talent to help us bring it to life!
We plan on creating a blog specifically for the film so more details on that to come shortly!