'An Eye for an Aye-Aye' 3d Test shot

'An Eye for an Aye-Aye' 3d test shot from Jeff Cook on Vimeo.

Just a test of a 2d animated scene converted into anaglyph 3d. It is slightly enhanced if you wear 3D anaglyph glasses but at the same time it's not too hard on the eyes without glasses at this resolution.

Background elements were made in The Gimp, camera moves were done in Wax. I use Faststone Photo Resizer for all my batch needs, in this case it was to get the colour values correct. Then I put the image sequences back into Wax (which thankfully has a layer multiply tool) and slightly offset them until I saw some 3d.

This IS a scene from the opening of my student film. It's the establishing shot of the location and my main man, Tim Portans.

Guess I should stop playing around now...

High School daze: 'Infectious Happiness' Logos.

School Day logos. from Jeff Cook on Vimeo.


Heres some stuff from my high school days (2004), I was part of a passionate group of student film makers and during our final year in high school we managed to make 3 short films in our spare time. Those were crazy, brilliant times! We were an excited bunch led by a terrific, enthusiastic film teacher.
After high school we managed to meet up annually for the following 2 years to compete in 48hours Furious Filmmaking... Now THOSE were even crazier experiences, I think I still have the psychological scars from those.
Heres to the 'Infectious Happiness' team and the 5 films we made together!!

Anyhow these are the logos I made for the team.

Two of them were made in flash... flash 5 I believe.
Actually the bright orange logo was never used on any of our films... computer problems, format problems or stress? Ah well it never got used.
The other one was replacement animation made with construction paper cut-outs, it was a lot of fun to make this one and though its simple it is my favourite of the bunch.

Then lastly I included a shot from the title card of my work-in-progress film. Not much too it except it's meant to be a throwback to retro animation where the cartoon character is introduced on a title card filling the screen.

Ah memories...

Side by Side shot comparison

Rough Animation / Final Composite from Jeff Cook on Vimeo.

Yay! Double post day!!
Why not?

Here is a comparison shot between a rough animation pencil test and the final coloured composite.

The pencil animation was filmed on a webcam and captured in Monkey Jam (and had some compression issues), traced digitally in vector program Pencil and coloured in Inkscape. The Background was created in The Gimp and everything was composited together in Wax.
If that all sounds like gibberish then maybe you would like to know that those are all Open Source freeware software.

This is a shot of self proclaimed "Flying Ace!" Tim Portans in search of that pesky and elusive Aye-Aye.

Enjoy...

Development from Concept to Final Composite

The concept art was done in February 2007 and the rough animation was done late May in 2007. But coloured composite was just done last week.

While I was looking through some concept art I found this piece, which was an early piece that was used in my (first?...) project pitch to the tutors. Unlike other concept art in my pitch, this actually became a scene.

My character Tim Portans' outfit was almost refined enough for the model pack but his face, particularly his chin and hair style, still had a lot of tinkering to go.

Also the background design for this shot only changed slightly from concept through animation.

Cheers.

Regurgitate Key Frames

Some coloured key frames from a little animation I did a few months back.

After a day of creating a piece of background art and compositing a scene of animation, I needed to quickly throw something else together to feel that much more productive.

Happy Easter Weekend guys.