This shot was a ton of fun to do. It wasn’t storyboarded this way (it was much simpler, just him looking at her head then looking up), but Jeff and the Laurens thought we could have more of a character moment here, so they left it to me to figure out.
After a while I realized that since Estefan can do anything, I’d try thumbnailing the wildest poses of him examining her head and trying to come to grips with her baldness (and come up with an idea of how to do her “hair”).
The shot ended up being about 17 seconds longer than originally intended, but I’m happy to say that everyone loved the new story beat, and it made the cut.
My amazingly talented friend Aaron Ludwig animated this scene from our student film “Estefan.” I love it dearly.
Our senior class film, “Estefan,” was a TON of fun to work on. I was lucky enough to be Animation Lead on it, and as a character animator I couldn’t have asked for a better film to work on. Tons of fun, great story and great characters. Thanks to Lauren Oppenlander (the creator of Estefan), Jeff Call (the director), Lauren Taylor (the producer), Scott Gwynn (art director), and the awesome faculty at BYU’s Center for Animation for the opportunity.
Last year, right after we finished, we submitted it to SIGGRAPH, and lo and behold, we won the prize for Best Student Project!Also, this past week, we found out that we took first place at the College Television Awards, for BYU’s 12th Student Emmy!
Congrats to everyone on the crew. I’m super proud of this film.
Happy Batman Day everyone.
Love this one by my friend Jason. So great! You guys should definitely go check out his stuff.
Here’s a page of ridiculous Hellboy doodles from about a year ago. They were buried in the archives of an old blog… collecting dust. I still like ‘em, so I thought I’d show you guys.
I was recently invited to contribute to the Cup ‘O Doodle blog. In case any of you are unfamiliar with what they do over there I will explain it concisely: They post a series of abstract scribbles and you have to make something out of one of them. It’s a really fun exercise.
Here is my original post with another image of the scribble on top so you can see what I was working from.
