I really liked the hand drawn and shape aspects he brought to his animations and openers since it gives each part of the animation a different look, but yet it all goes together nicely in the project.
At the time, the AMC show the Walking Dead was entering its season finale, so I thought it would be a good idea to do an opener for the show in Saul Bass' style, since it gives it a eery and hand drawn feeling. It is rough on the edges such as the show makes the viewers get on the edge of their seats.
It took me about two weeks to make the entire project. Each image was made with the vertex tool in Photoshop. Red was the color of choice in this piece, which gave each character/ actor a different perspective. I also used the original Hitchcock font that Saul Bass used in most of his creations, so it would tie the piece in nicely. I used the Walking Dead font for the title because it was the shows original font used in the opener.
This project was a smaller project since I had just finished my three month long project that received fourth place at the eMagine Media Festival. I felt that I needed to keep working, but also needed to take a little break and actually get out of school at 3:00 instead of 8:00 or 9:00.
Here is the final product. (Chad is my Step dad btw.)
I started my next project in the beginning of April when I began watching the show Supernatural. I was going to do an opener for the show in both my style and Saul Bass' style mixed together, so it didn't seem like I was stealing his style. The portraits for the show took me about three weeks just to make, since I was creating them from individual vertexes. For all the portraits, I used only black and white mixed colors, so that it all fit together and the colors would pop from the red background.
The license plate was really fun to make because, living in Kansas you never really pay attention to how much detail had been put into our license plates. It was fun to make it in a more cartoon style, but still having it being sophisticated. I also love the color of blue I used in the background of the license plate, because it made it pop and catch the eyes of the people viewing it.
Sam's (on the right) portrait was one of the easiest, and yes he is a he. A lot of people thought that the portrait made him look like a woman, I honestly thought it looked like a young Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Ghostbusters, Avatar.) By removing a mole and some of the depth in his face, he looks less "girly". This portrait only took me around an hour to draw.
Dean (on the left) was the hardest portrait because the actor that plays his character (Jensen Ackles) had no "straight forward" pictures. I did Deans portrait around five times until I finally decided to use this one (top). Dean's portraits took me around two weeks to make perfect and choose which one I wanted to use.
Castiel (Right) was another hard portrait to do because none of the pictures cut off the top of his head or would not show his body. He is my favorite character, so I wanted to make him look really good. His portrait took me around three hours to make it 100% perfect.
John (left) was my final human portrait for this project. He was very hard to draw with vertexes because of the different volumes in his hair, since his hair in the photo I was going off of was black, I had to add the gray . His teeth were also very difficult. His hair took me an hour and a half to do and his face took me an hour to do.
The 1967 Chevy Impala is the "icon" of this show, so I knew I had to include it in the project. The tires were the hardest part of this part because the tires should be completely round, but vertexes make that very difficult. It took me around two hours to draw the car. In my project, it is never fully animated because the work caught up to me and I could not do it.
This is my favorite drawing that I did. It is the front of the Impala and is currently hanging in my car collecting grandpa's basement. This was the most detailed drawing I did for the animation, even the Chevrolet logo was done with individual vertexes in a separate layer and shrunk down to give it better authenticity. This drawing took me around three hours to get it to its best quality.
Two weeks after the portraits were done, I tried putting them into the opener sequence I had planned out, but I honestly hated the way the project was looking and stopped. It is my first unfinished work in this class, and I hope for it to be my last.
My final project for the year is a Kinetic typography of different scenes from the show Supernatural. I have worked on this project for about a month, and it's been a really fun project. I think the hardest part of this project was just putting all the quotes together in a smooth functioning way. There aren't very many screen shots I could take for this one, so I am just going to put the render of what I have so far below.
This year has been by far my most successful year in animation, I have chosen animation to become my future career and life style. I hope to do more projects over the summer, and will blog them. Thanks so much!
