deep shit - when doves shit
this dove can be seen in action at the end of. ‘Deep Shit’, a short animated movie I made, with of course many others (see the credits!)
I wanted this dove to be too heavy to fly properly, but we were a bit at the end of our budget. That’s how it goes. Having the bird fly the way I wanted would cost an animator another day and i squeezed the last energy out of them the way we made it already. But on the picture when you swipe, you can see how I had it in mind.
other illustration - props
Part of the fun of making an animation movie is making the props: things the character use, hold or are just there in the background. We could do a lot of inside jokes here. The scenes were so short and the images so rapidly moving that you’d hardly see the naughty jokes we’d make. Here you can quench the bottomless thirst of your inner pervert ast the images are frozen and as long on your screen as you wish.
sketch - sketches
sketches and parts of the storyboard for ‘Deep Shit’.
I think I did three versions of the story in board. One by hand, and two in flash – the program that became ‘Anime’ and was really great for digital ink drawings.
identity item - dvd design
‘Deep Shit’ came out on Dvd, and so I had to design an interface and a cover.
Animated short - Baby Doom Sings Money
‘Baby Doom Sings Money’ was made to convince the jury of the Dutch Film Fund that the technique i had in mind was actually possible (they said not and did not grand me the money for making Deep Shit). This is my first ever After Effects work, so be merciful. I had help by Rosto and Balder Westein, who knew much more of After effects than I did, obviously.
Basically, this is a clay doll that was taken apart and all limbs and parts were photographed from all sides. The photos were coloured in Photoshop and in After Effects I put all limbs together again in layers, that could switch on or off depending on the desired perspective. Of course soon after there were many options for rigging characters, and Deep Shit was only partially made in After Effects, but hey, at the time it was a good idea. A bit laborious though…
