2wiceland Commercial...

Yaaaaay!! I can show the commercial I just worked on. The director, Dave Wasson, gave me the thumbs up and also a wonderful dvd with labels and a jacket and everything--really cool and special to do. Well I finally got to go by AcmeFilmworks and grab that dvd along with the stuff I did with the over the summer--so for the next several posts I'm going to have some animation stuff to show-yippee! Anyway, this was alot of fun to work on. We did all of the animation in flash and Dave got the 3-D effects done in AfterEffects. We had two master animators, Devon Roth and Aaron Horvath, doing the bulk and then me. I did the stuff in the scenes where the woman is walking to the store, in the store, talks to the camera, and various stuff in the last shot (the birds and banner, the dude in the boat, some work with the two dudes, and the tiny little flags on the balloons). In addition to being paid I got to peruse through some of the animation files for the other shots and really learned alot. It really wasn't until the last shot that I felt back into the mentality of animating--I mean I'd been doing boards for the past 9 months. (This has taught me a valuable lesson in keeping my Illustration and Animation skills up really high--never know what is going to be thrown at you). I really think apprenticeships should return more to this field. The quality would go even more through the roof than it does at times. Anywho, enjoy!


OTHER COOL NOTES ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL: Produced by Gwynn Adik, 3-D and compositing by Nicolas Mermet, post supervision by George Khair, and the fun music by the same guy who did the stuff on Making Fiends, Ego Plum.

Addendum: Dave Wasson put a nicer copy of it on line here Also, I noticed that this link was one of the suggested videos here