APARTMENTS: 5 YEARS AFTER/ 5 YEARS LATER

Apartment Number $ - The Shaman. (2006)
from Simonwilchesc on Vimeo.

In 2005 I started developing my graduation project. It was a
15min animated short consisting of 4 pieces in different techniques.

At the time; there were many things I did not know, could not do,
or never took into account while developing the project.

I decided, for many reasons, to give it a second look and try to fix
some of the technical shortcomings of the piece. I have been working
on it the past two months. This is sort of the result:

I am pretty satisfied with the results. They are not perfect by any
means, however these show some of the skills I have come to
learn these past years. 

MORAL: Never be absolutely satisfied with anything you do. 
There will always be room for learning and improvement. 

Thank you for Watching.

Simón.

RUN!

STORY2SHOT - Living Room

Another Story to Final Shot Comparison

From Storyboard to Finished Shot

This is a brief Example of a Storyboard design to full finished shot.



Enjoy!

Metropolis Process, Step 4: Finishing

Here's the Complete Background with textures, finishes, Lighting and props included.

Hope you like it, Next step: Animation!

Thanks and Enjoy

METROPOLIS process Step 3: FLATTERING ;)

"Flattering" in comics and illustration does not refer to complimenting the work, it is a process in which, each Layer is separated with a flat color area, in my case, using the help of Photoshop's layer option:Clipping Mask.

This is should make the coloring so much easy. Still to go: Light and Shading, Fog and the animated windows.



Thanks and Enjoy

METROPOLIS process Step 2: Clean Up

This is the trace over the previous sketch. All the Layers are now cropped and composed over each other. Normally I'd trace my drawings with a Staedtler fine point pen, But as I'm trying to give these backgrounds a more hand-drawn feel I'm keeping the sketchy pencil line.



Thanks and Enjoy!

METROPOLIS process Step 1: Sketch

This is the roughest design for an animation Background. All the buildings are placed on different layers with different transparency values so it can generate some depth. I think the result of this test came out great.



There is some obvious reference to the work of Boris Bilinsky


Boris Bilinsky, City Art work for Metropolis c.1926-7
©ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2004


I'll post more from the process later.