Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Mada-hoo-hah??

Allrighty..here are some thumbnails I did while planning out my scenes for Madagascar. They aren't very pretty...but the point isn't about prettiness...it's about ideas..which ideas work the best and are most entertaining? So you pick and choose and hope for the best. I wish there was more time to spend on thumbnailing but it doesn't seem like there is in the land of computer animation. You've always got that deadline hanging on your back and there's no time to dilly dally. It's rush rush rush...let's get this scene done! Huh? "Oh you're THINKING about your shot? Well that's fine, but we need to show the directors something by tomorrow....so just throw some blocking in." Wha? " You don't know who the character is ?" No. "There's no backstory about his life?" Nope. " Oh..hmmmm.....well.....you'll figure it out. That's why we pay you the big bucks." Um... But I need to meditate over my desk like Frank and Ollie...and I need to take walks in the park for 2 days and absorb this scene in my head. Oh really?....." Off With His Head!!!"






















And here are some recent figure drawings from a class here at work.












Thank you kindly and have a pleasant day.

8 comments:

Unknown said...

WOW!! U post so many new stuffs since my last visit!! AWESOME!

Jeaux Janovsky said...

i concur.
it actually makes me wanna rent madagascar.
we should go to red lion sometime jeremey and hang out yo.
-jx

Ethan_Hall_2006 said...

Nice

Perry Linton Joseph Osuna said...

I love that you said it isn't about pretty drawing, it like feel a little better about my own stuff, but your work rocks and I'd appreicated any advice or comment u may have about my own thank u.

samacleod said...

These are so cool, Jeremy. Thanks.

nickwatson said...

hey jeremy,
really love the thumbnails,its great to see all the prep work that goes into these scences. lovely stuff

Aurelie said...

as Nick said, it is really interesting to be able to see a bit of what happen behind the screen... Thanks for sharing that with the rest of us :)
And they are really expressive and funny (I especially like the seventh)

Dan Segarra said...

It's great to see studies done like this in 3D animation. Really nice! Thanks for postin' this stuff.