46. Screen Print

Posted: 05/17/2013 | Author: | Filed under: Words | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Last saturday at dawn (10.30am) completely hangover, I walked more then an hour in the sun to pick up the screen prints.

And man was it worth it! They are brilliant. It’s my first screen print and I love it, I love it so much I might screen print some backgrounds from the film.

I will start sending them on monday to a few lucky backers.

I printed with Atom Printing, I highly recommend them, great work, fast and affordable.

Here’s the print:

Screen Print

Screen Print 2

deadman

Boot

If you wanna get one, they’re £20, just chuck me an email.

And here’s how screen prints are made, it’s pretty rad!

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bed finished

Razzle

And a video that shows the screen printing process, nothing to do whit atom printing or the film, it’s just a youtube video :)

40. Half

Posted: 04/04/2013 | Author: | Filed under: Animation | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Today I finished shot MO_03_00 witch means that I reached 5 minutes 30 of animation!

That’s half the film animated!

This shot was a bitch, I emptied a whole pen to finish it, here’s a little preview:

Hat

36. Live action, Again

Posted: 03/06/2013 | Author: | Filed under: Making of | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

I finished animating all the shots I filmed so far, so I’m back on live action.

I have a few “classic” shot to shoot, i.e. me going around in my living room pretending to be in the desert, but after that I’ll start the more complex shots, involving old fashion special effects such as building a fake head in latex. Ho boy that’s gonna be fun!

Here, a mock up layout of one of the shots I film yesterday:

Drunk

And just a little reminder that the kickstarter is still going! (9 days left!)

27. Zoetrope Gif

Posted: 11/26/2012 | Author: | Filed under: Animation, Making of | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

 

I finished shooting 3 sequences last week and I now have 12 new shots that I can animate.

Some of them are quite scary…

This one for instance, each drawing is a proper a4 drawing… shaded and all.

I made it into a kind of zoetrope gif, for fun. So that’s 9 frames out of the 26 the shot needs…

 

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25. Live Action

Posted: 11/12/2012 | Author: | Filed under: Animation, Making of | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

I’ve now finished animating everything I shot a will back, so today and probably tomorrow will be shooting live action again.

It’s quite a pain in the ass, but it has to be done… the bigest trouble is that, since last time, my hair grew quite a lot, and I’m gonna have to shave my beard… What a drag!

Here’s another little GIF, enjoy:

I’m a bit out of Ideas on what I should post, Do you have anything you’d like me to explain about animation, or anything you’d like to see?

Let me know HERE.

22. Back to Black

Posted: 10/22/2012 | Author: | Filed under: Backgrounds | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

I finished the pencil animation for the Bedroom sequence,

Those of you who bought the book had a preview of what the film animation will look like, thanks for your feedbacks!

I switched  back to shading for a few days before starting a new sequence witch involves a different drawing technique…

Here is what 3 hours of shading looks like:

17. 56 Backgrounds

Posted: 08/27/2012 | Author: | Filed under: Backgrounds, Making of | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

I have now drawn 56 Backgrounds.

I have a few left and my goal is to finish most of them this week and start animation next week.

I will need to make a new planning obviously…

There is a few POV in the film and I haven’t decided if they will be fully animated backgrounds and characters or if it will only be a big background with pans.

Anyway, here’s what it looks like when I try to review most of the BGs:

 

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9. New BackGround

Posted: 07/02/2012 | Author: | Filed under: Backgrounds | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Last week was a bit slow, mainly due to the fact that I spend 5 hours colouring A THIRD of an A3 in red. Using a O.4 mm pen…

Bloody Diner sits. It felt like Math lessons all over again!

Anyway, I’m one background behind, I will catch up somehow this week.

Mooe sent me the first draft of here Harry Nilsson’s “One” cover, and it’s brilliant,

I can’t wait for you to hear it!

Mean while listen to here other songs, HERE. They’re perfect for a monday morning. Or any other time!

This week plan is a bit serious…  Apart from the thursday afternoon Old Fashioned Stroll.

I need to sort out a proper PLANING for the backgrounds. I’ve finished 6 of them, out of 60 and I only have a few weeks to finish all of them.

I started by the hardest ones, yet I need a realistic schedule. Today starts the 9th week. It needs to get a bit more intense.

Any one care to Produce me?

The great news is that I am 20 Books away from adding 1 more month to the production! Making it a proper 6 month production.

Here is one of the new BackGrounds, a Motel Room:

Feel free to leave comments HERE

8. Diner

Posted: 06/25/2012 | Author: | Filed under: Backgrounds | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

I’ve finished 3 backgrounds: a London Tube Station, a Diner and a Saloon so far.

And I need to start working faster now,  I should draw at least another 4 Backgrounds this week.

I’ll need to take a day to set up the animation tools (Line test and animation table) and scan the final drawings.

The sales of the book have dramatically slowed down,

so I’m just dropping a few lines to remind you that you can help finance the film

by buying a Deadman’s Reach book HERE or by making your friends buy it!

Thanks!

And Here is the Diner:

You can let me know what you think of it, here.