The first shot Background.

If you think this is legit you should see it with effects.


Yeah. I said that. :o

Background to the Backgrounds

Essetially I built a rough of each background in MAYA for everything in the film that takes place before they go through the portal. Then in photoshop I paint it as if it was a normal background. Then I add the lighting. It's adding a very cool sense of depth I feel. I really like how these are coming. There are a lot more coming soon!

Family Portraits

So over the past few days I have been knocking out backgrounds like crazy. I've figured out a new method that I will explain more in the next post which will be much much larger and feature a lot of cool new work and process's.

In the meantime, the Tiger's fathers desk requires some family photos and such. I did four of them, to put on his desk, to establish a past and a world a bit. They will hardly be seen, but I'm still proud of them. Here they are.




Now stop reading this and get your bum to the theater to see Tangled, which is fantastic and opened yesterday. If you've seen it already - go see it again. How's that sound?

As to the animatic - I've cut the scene where the Panther inhales the castle - so now they just find the Dad tied up, sitting on the cliff, and I've changed the ending because in pre-screenings, people didn't understand the importance of the ring. You'll see all those changes reflected soon. Also, some staging and other random stuff has changed too. All will be made clear soon!

Huge post about backgrounds, shots, and world design to follow soon. This is all super exciting- look forward to it! :D

The Bar (Rough Above Layout)

Hey All,

So Today I realized everything just had too much of a 'square look' so I spent a few hours re-designing the bar, so that It would be more interesting and organic to look at. Obviously, this is not a real background to be used, and when it is done for real, there will be patrons and items filling it up as well. It will probably be a little longer too to allow the dragon to enter. But as to a look right now, this is kind of the idea.

Yes, in the right is a Pig on a spit.

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More of the Lab

Here's one I've been working on for a few days now....


(Probably will get a few more touch-ups in "post")

Backgrounds The Lab Part 4

Destruction begins.

Yes, the lab could probably use a little more clutter or something. That will likely be added later, when I think a little more about props n such. I already see that I need to include the shelf that he keeps the lightning sword on, so perhaps that, some more, shelves, n a few boxes would be good....

I should probably also include the soda cans... n trash n such....

Backgrounds The Lab Part 3

Here is the entire Lab now, MINUS one super wide shot that I am still working on...

There is also one intense shot, of when action begins to go down and it gets darker and more moody. Hopefully in a day or two you'll be seeing the Lab in Action too... Then I'm going to work on something else, like the monster book or something... as to not burn out on there too quick and get work done fast...

Also, I'll obviously have to add that Timer into other shots....

Enjoy!

Backgrounds The Lab Part 2

Here is some more of the Lab on the inside, before the chaos goes down! You'll see a few more later today as well, I just want to update them as I finish to show off these things. :D

Backgrounds The Lab Part 1

Hey Yo,

Here is the first interior background! This is the Lab back when the Tiger is a lil' baby, before everything gets destroyed. I'm not sure I'm happy bout the circuit board machinery, so that might change. I really like the rest though...

Backgrounds Exteriors Pt 1

Hey Hey Hey,

So here are a few of my backgrounds in progress. These first few are exteriors. NOW, It is very important to realize that all the exterior backgrounds will have heavy snow, wind, and rain effects going on in the finals shots (When I do some tests you'll see some more pics displaying that. So they will be darker, and more will be going on. SECONDLY, with these shots being composited in After Effects, I will be animating the clouds and such to move along screen, so never mind where they are now, for they will be more nicely laid out in "post".

Enjoy!




(This one's got a bit of a lightning flash going on)