P. Dalkner » Animation http://www.pdalkner.com portfolio site and the ramblings of. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:24:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Suppertime: Then and Now http://www.pdalkner.com/2011/02/suppertime-then-and-now/ http://www.pdalkner.com/2011/02/suppertime-then-and-now/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:47:25 +0000 admin http://www.pdalkner.com/?p=330 Working at an animation studio, Matt Sutter and I found ourselves with pockets of downtime. We were freelancing and that never meant steady employment, only working project to project (granted that was still months at a time). To keep ourselves productive we dabbled in putting together a pitch package for an Adult Swim style series based on an early short Sutter had made. It was a goofy inside joke, and frankly not terribly good. But it was dear to us and we expanded on the idea and did a lot of the ground work. The closest we ever got to animating anything was the title montage, but before we ever got to sink our teeth into it, both of us found steady work and the ambition died. Every once and a while I would brush the dust off and chip away at finishing it. Recently, Matt helped out with the final push and, well, a couple of years later… here we are. The title sequence is done.

I thought it would be interesting to give a little bit of insight into how the process works. First things start out with a moving storyboard called an “animatic”. It’s mainly a crude animation using stick figures and scribbled background art. Then that file is the framework that you work within and expand upon to make the finished animation.
Here’s both the animatic and animation laid out for you to compare. Often times the animatic has more spirit and energy because it’s made more spontaneously. I think that was definitely true here.

Animatic…

Animation…

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]]> http://www.pdalkner.com/2010/12/birthday-street-gifs/feed/ 0 A New Animated Short (really short)! http://www.pdalkner.com/2010/06/a-new-animated-short-really-short/ http://www.pdalkner.com/2010/06/a-new-animated-short-really-short/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:00:06 +0000 admin http://www.pdalkner.com/?p=199 I just finished a little animated commercial for my friends’ band Everyone Everywhere. They just released their first full length album and it’s really good. This little animated ditty was also made (in part) for the Rentcheck series of movies. Without further ado… (don’t blink or you’ll miss it)

New Everyone Everywhere Album from Philly Rentcheck on Vimeo.

Sutter also made an animated movie for that month and it’s pretty great. Check it out…

Where There’s A Will from Philly Rentcheck on Vimeo.

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