Thursday 20 March 2014

Trevor turnarounds

Our first turnarounds of Trevor, the main character in our short film of the same name.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvG4t6MfyHg

Thursday 13 February 2014

Trevor, posing for the camera

An early pose and lighting test of Trevor, the main character for our upcoming short film. We plan on tweaking his textures in the coming days and once we're finally happy with them, we'll be posting completed pose tests!
 


Monday 3 February 2014

Trevor is live!


After countless hours spent trying to properly patrol a bridge, the little guy deserves a site dedicated to him, don't ya think?
Well, thanks to Eva Feldmann, now he does! Follow the progress of Trevor by visiting the link. Many updates due in the coming days including the introduction of Trevor himself and the latest photos of his miniature world!  Don't miss a post!



http://trevorthemovie.tumblr.com/

Tuesday 21 January 2014

Trevor: short film

Production is still underway on our short film now entitled, simply, Trevor.

It's been a tough go just to get to this point but things have moved along fairly well in the last few months. Sorin Rosca, currently an intern at Chuck Gammage animation, has been kind enough to help us bring our 2D character designs to life. He has done a brilliant job and we are thrilled with how our 3D models are looking at this point! Fingers crossed both models will be ready within a month and hopefully Trevor will be rigged by then as well.

Set number one is currently under construction as well. Originally when we thought up the film our plan was to make everything in Maya and to build 3D sets. Some time before Christmas we changed our plans and are now building live, miniature sets instead. The whole film will be shot with a camera and the 3D characters will be composited in during post. It is on the one hand more complicated to execute, but it is also cheaper by far. It also gave us complete control over the sets rather than relying on the talents of others to bring them to life.

Our immediate plan remains the same as it did last year: we want to run a Kickstarter campaign to help us achieve our goal of making this film. We're hoping to create a short teaser that showcases the personality and charm of our loveable character, as well finish building set number one before we launch Kickstarter. This way the public can see that we are in fact well into production, but we need help getting to the next stage.

An official blog for the movie will launch in the next two weeks. At that time our characters will be revealed and many behind the scenes photos will be available to view. More details to come soon.

The Nut Job doing well!

Critics may have slammed the film, but audiences still packed the theatres during the opening weekend. To the surprise of many people The Nut Job pulled in a very respectable 25M over the long weekend and is predicted to be Open Road's biggest grossing film!
Thankfully even those who criticized the film's script still took the time to praise the animation. I'm thrilled to have been a part of the team and it was a strange and awesome feeling to watch my name roll along the screen during the credits.