Gun turret smoke : coloured and composited

Gun turret smoke : coloured and composited from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
Final version of gun turret smoke shot, fully coloured with additional animated and coloured highlights.

In this shot I did the animation, clean-up, trace, highlights, and animation colouring.

There is no-sound in this clip, otherwise the gun-fire is in sync with the animation, any comments are more than welcome.

industrial chimney smoke loop

industrial chimney smoke loop from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
A late smoke loop done in an afternoon as extra effects for the film Cyren. The shot can loop continuously.

The animation was done straight off with charcoal, the idea was to create more of a tonal feel, but due to the need for accuracy this was slightly lost.

I managed to modify the image sequence in Adobe After Effects and give it that added feel of volume, making it into the 'dirty smoke' that was required. This can be seen seen in Cyren on the main page, any comments more than welcome.

woman transforming into monster : coloured pre-composite

Woman Transformation Coloured pre-composite from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
Final coloured version of transformation. Colouring mostly done and managed by Tom Mead [director], done in Toon Boom Encore.

This is the shot as it looked before it was composited for Cyren. The fully composited version is quite different and has some added animation i did to link the main animation to the background added at a late stage.

Any comments more than welcome.

woman transforming into monster stage_7

woman transforming into monster stage_7 from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
Linetest for our third year graduation film, Cyren.

Final linetest of the woman of the film once she has left the painting and gets annoyed at the sight of the lower city dwellers seeing her; She transforms into a monster. The animation took quite a lot, lot longer than the hand emerging.

After the initial motion pass was made, the animation was built up upon and developed. The hair was the last thing to be animated which then brought the animation to it's seventh pass. Again due to the method of animation clean-up was sort of merged into trace which worked as it saved a huge amount of time. I decided to put in some extra animation as i did the trace just to add some extra life into the mutation.

The clean-up test will go up soon which shows the shot a lot clearer than the rough animation test, any comments greatly appreciated.

woman transformation_1

wm_1 from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
Linetest for our third year graduation film, Cyren.

First linetest of the woman transforming into a monster. This was the initial motion that I built the mutation up upon.

The clean-up test will go up soon which shows the shot a lot clearer than the rough animation test, any comments greatly appreciated.

hand emerging, colour and composite test

Here is a coloured composite test following on from trace and then one of the colouring meth0ds which worked.


hand emerging, colored, composited from Jamie Page and Vimeo.

The three third years at the head of the film:

Tom Mead - Director[as well as background and layout artist/colourer/compositer]

Annette Mohr - Animator [as well as character designer/cleaner-upper/tracer /shadower/colourer], and myself,

Jamie Page - Animator [as well as special effects animator/cleaner-upper/tracer /shadower/colourer/compositer]

We all worked in part for this scene with Annette producing some fully coloured tests, and Tom setting up the initial composite and backgrounds.

We used Toon Boom Encore to do the main colouring, and then put each frame through Adobe Photoshop to smooth out the gradient (yes it took a while :'( ) and then I finished compositing in Adobe After Effects.

Any comments greatly appreciated.

hand emerging final linetest

hand emerging from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
Linetest for our third year graduation film, Cyren.

Final linetest of a hand emerging from a painting. The idea behind this shot was that the woman emerges from a painting she's been trapped in for the first time. The animation took quite a while, although due to the method of animation clean-up could be skipped and then I moved onto trace; which seem to last forever.

The clean-up test will up soon which shows the shot in all its glory, which i prefer to the finished coloured shot, any comments greatly appreciated.

shovelling creature

shovelling creature from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
Linetest for our third year graduation film, Cyren.

Quick rough animation test to get a feel for the creatures own shovelling action.

Any comments greatly appreciated

slide-in smoke a+b

slide-in smoke a+b from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
2nd year linetest for the student film Escape.

Smoke test for the trail of dust that comes up after a guard slides into shot. I think it works ok, but a bit too hasty on turning the force of the slide into the slow dust cloud.

Any comments greatly appreciated

slide-in smoke a

slide-in smoke a from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
2nd year linetest for the student film Escape.

Smoke test for the trail of dust that comes up after a guard slides into shot. I think it works ok, but a bit too hasty on turning the force of the slide into the slow dust cloud.

Any comments greatly appreciated

guard swearing

Untitled from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
2nd year linetest for the student film Escape.

A scene that I inbetweened.

Any comments greatly appreciated

gun smoke test 8

gun smoke test 8.. from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
2nd year linetest for the student film Escape.

final version of smoke test. mostly shot on one's to give the powerful smoke effect. don't ask how long this took to make..

Any comments greatly appreciated.

gun blast-back test

gun blast-back test from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
2nd year linetest for the student film Escape.

Quick linetest trying to develop something for an exciting and extreme blast-back test.
This shot used a lot of one's as I was experimenting how to create an extreme slow-in effect.

Any comments greatly appreciated.

hand grab from distance

grab test from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
2nd year linetest for the student film Escape.

Just a quick test I did where the cut is a medium shot to a close-up. The ending grab lets it down, but I re-did this shot anyhow.

Any comments greatly appreciated.

inbetweened runcycle towards

run towards from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
2nd year linetest for the student film Escape.

old run linetest that i inbetweened. not very exciting as the finished shot isn't shown here.

Any comments greatly appreciated.

gun kickdust test 2

gun kickdust test 2 from Jamie Page and Vimeo.
2nd year linetest for the student film Escape.

This was the second in many developments of this shot, where a gunner is firing at a prisoner who is escaping from jail.

Any comments greatly appreciated.

gun kick dust test

gun kickdust test from Jamie Page and Vimeo.

2nd year linetest for the student film Escape.

This was the first in many developments of this shot, where a gunner is firing at a prisoner who is escaping from jail.

Any comments greatly appreciated.