...a world without Science
Hello and Happy Thanksgiving! I just finished working with Interspectacular on some animated television bumper spots for the Discovery Channel. This whole job took maybe on and off 3 months to finish. I think four of these are going to be aired on TV ("Moon Or Bust 2" and "The Wright Bros" are extras that we did for fun). I've done a little work in motion graphics but this was the first time that I could have my own work animated. Basically, I did the storyboards and the key frames for all of these spots. You can kind of see the evolution of my process where I tried to get really complicated with the first "Caveman" spot to the last "Wright Bros" spot which is extremely simple. It was a learning experience for myself in the way I had to think more about the readability of a 16 second spot versus what would read for a print illustration. Many thanks to the two Creative Directors at Interspectacular who wrote and directed all the spots, Michael Uman and Luis Blanco, the two hardworking animators Ben Lee(animated "Caveman" and "Columbus") and Efrain Cintron (animated everything else). Oh, and my favorite designer Ara Devejian who did a lot of the type.
Here's a sample of the first storyboard I did for "Caveman" that went through a few revisions..
A sample of the changes and tweaks that went on through this process. This was a scene in "Moon Or Bust" that went through several evolutions. First one looked too much like the surface of the moon, we added telephone wires and changed some colors. Which wasn't enough, I made a small sign pointing up with the word "MOON" on it, which wasn't quite enough. Finally the creatives at Discovery Channel insisted on a background that was set in New England. I think the final grassy version is what's going to be aired on the Discovery Channel.
Some of the key scenes that I worked on. The bright pink parrot unfortunately got cut.
This is the last spot that is still being animated as I type this. Should be finished after Thanksgiving. I'll post it somewhere.
Out of all the spots, this one's my favorite:
Moon or Bust|Quicktime (9MB)
See the rest HERE
p.s.
I updated my site
Here's a sample of the first storyboard I did for "Caveman" that went through a few revisions..
A sample of the changes and tweaks that went on through this process. This was a scene in "Moon Or Bust" that went through several evolutions. First one looked too much like the surface of the moon, we added telephone wires and changed some colors. Which wasn't enough, I made a small sign pointing up with the word "MOON" on it, which wasn't quite enough. Finally the creatives at Discovery Channel insisted on a background that was set in New England. I think the final grassy version is what's going to be aired on the Discovery Channel.
Some of the key scenes that I worked on. The bright pink parrot unfortunately got cut.
This is the last spot that is still being animated as I type this. Should be finished after Thanksgiving. I'll post it somewhere.
Out of all the spots, this one's my favorite:
Moon or Bust|Quicktime (9MB)
See the rest HERE
p.s.
I updated my site
Posted at 11:27 AM
31 Comments:
I nominate this for "post of the year" on the Plundering blog. Interesting, super funny stuff, great images, it pains me to say.
i have to say that i am impressed.
one of my favorite from you.
good stuff!
Those spots turned out great. Looking forward to seeing them on the 'tube'. Nicely done!
Your making everyone look as though they are standing still, great work!
Freaking awesome.
Damn you Josh. How are we gonna follow up on this, you bastard? Maybe I can post naked pictures of myself.
This is sweet Josh! I was checking them out online last night. just great. Did you help them animate? or did you draw the parts that were going to be moved separate?
oh! and my favorite one is the one of Columbus, I really like how the water moves.
Excellent work Josh, it's always good to see illustration work used for animation. I really like the two scientists with the clip-boards in the 'Moon or Bust' piece, they remind me of Thompson & Thompson from Tin Tin. Keep up the good work!
CONGRATS!
IT's nice to see your drawings animated. It works so well. :)
-Oskar
I love it baby.
those came out sooooo nice josh. i hope you get to do more stuff like this... cause then ill get to admire their humor and ingenuity all over again.
Thanks for the comments! Manuel, I think in the beginning I drew some of the parts seperately. For instance if the arm was going to move I would have that on a seperate layer. Near the end the animator was basically drawing all the inbetweens and a lot of the key poses...so I didn't have to do as many drawings. Basically, I kept everything on seperate layers. It was a good experience....I still have some mixed feelings on a few of these spots but I'm glad I learned a lot in the end..
congrats dude. that is some big time shit! so proud of you!!!!
Love the evolution of the Moon image....damn execs and their revisions!! ;p
beautiful
those first spacesuit ones make me think of TIn Tin
this is so awesome, josh!!
i love discovery channels, and more now because of their amazing sensibility to do this.
would they show these on all discovery channels or the main one?
hope you're well!
xo
shahab-thanks buddy!
Drazen-yeah I always try to sneak in Tintin references whenever I can.
Stella-thanks! I think they're airing the first 4 spots right now. The last 2 were sort of done as extras for Interespectacular and myself. See you soon in LA?
your colors are so fresh, beautiful
These are some of the best looking(and animated) designs i've ever witnessed..
Great job to all involved :)
Ariel
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indeed.
All of this stuff looks so easy, it's a wonderful point of view.
Thanks!
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