Street Smart Sketch pre-production

Like any production, it takes a lot into creating an animated short, even if it is only 1 minute long. Plus, I worked on the project away from my family during most of the time, so I had to clarify a lot of things through emails (storyboard for the general flow and look, conceptualizing the looks, animatics/block animation for timing, and the final animation).

Sadly, I lost most of my works when my PC was reformatted by accident, including the final model for the mammoth and some backgrounds. It's a good thing I had a small backup which I found almost a year later.

Ribut's initial design by my mom. They don't have a tablet at home. Dunno why his head refuses to show:


::STORYBOARD::
Here is the storyboard that was pitched to my mom.

::3D MODELS::

RIBUT
The star of the show, the potato man in action! Modeled in Desktop Maya, textured with Adobe Photoshop. I think I'm quite satisfied with the final look. It was supposed to be a simple short with minimal animation anyway.








JEEP

Modeled it after my little brother's toy car which was used for the play (I didn't think that old thing could still work). Again, I'm happy with how this turned out. Low ploy models always make my day easier.

BG PROP
The few repetitive stuffs that was thrown into the background and foreground. Done with Photoshop and lots of alpha maps.

Street Smart Sketch

This short animation was done in October 2007 for my mother's school play/sketch, mainly about being street smart. It was about a scientist's son, Johan, who accidentally time traveled into the stone age in his father's 4wd and causing a slight havoc when he ran into a few cavemen.

This clip shows the leader's imagination after the boy explained what the car is, and its functions. It was supposed to explain friction, momentum, and stuffs like that, and especially about safety while being on the road (like always look left and right etc.).

She only gave me a month to work on it, and it took 2 weeks to get across what she wanted and another 2 weeks to model characters & props, (rigging was done by my fiance), texture, animate, and put together in time for her play. Thus, the horrible sound editing and weird out of place glitches. Mom's students got 2nd place for the play.

Background music was "Jessica", made famous by The Allman Brothers Band, and sound effects were ganked off various free audio site.

This was purely made for non-profit, I assure you.