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