Here are some design bits'n'pieces for a recent project,
"Fantasy Office Episode 2: Storage Problems", my first non-
WobbleBox short for
Channel Flip. This one had an insane turnaround time but it was good fun to knock out. I was given
carte blanche in terms of style except to use clean lines and keep things basic. I didn't want it to be too much of a departure from episode 1 (which I wasn't involved in) but it's definitely different. Design-wise the characters are sort of in the
"Bullies" style:
I also got to knock out some griffins and unicorns, the latter I aimed to make as nauseatingly cutesy as possible.
The personal highlight was one small shot I put some time aside to do some full animation on. Drawing upon my childhood fondness for the Games-era "Ren & Stimpy" years, the shot's of a warehouse worker getting his face torn off by a death bat.
It's amazing how simple Toon Boom makes the whole process. The lightbox and page rotation features make line tests a breeze. Ditto clean-up, between Toon Boom's intuitive controls and my gorgeous li'l Cintiq my line work is so much smoother than them bygone days of
using actual pens for inking in.
The full short was written by Sarah Darling and went up today, if you fancy giving it a watch:
I quite like that the boss character talks a bit like Bane.
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