And here is the work that goes behind developing a short directed by Wes Anderson.
We produced the whole thing in just over a week, myself working on a
portable tablet using sketches made on paper and Photoshop artwork,
divided into layers to create the environments separated from the
characters. Each character separated into various poses, then smaller
layers for arm & leg movement leg, different expressions.
The
whole thing then was put together by the inexhaustible and talented Ray
Lewis in After Effects by animating the layers, constructing
3Dimensional environments out of my separate layers, adding camera moves
and VFX all made to order by the needs of director Wes Anderson.
As we had worked with Wes before on a number of projects, starting with
Fantastic Mr Fox, we knew what the job demanded of us, and how to
produce the work and how to manage it in the time given by the agency.
As Wes likes to plan each shot to the very detail at the storyboard
stage we knew that this had to be a very accurate blueprint for the live
action shoot to come. Each pose, expression, camera move and timing
being precisely described by Wes down to the very fine detail.
The end product was the result of around 10 exhausting days working
around 20 hours a day and around 3500 layers of artwork... Luckily we
stuck to black and white and we would have still been here at Christmas.
Always a pleasure to work with a director with such clear vision as
Wes, even though our experiences with the London agency turned out to be
less than pleasant.
Slightly marred the whole experience and
reminded me again why I disliked working with many ad agencies in the
past... Little respect for the artists and people involved in producing
the work they're getting paid the big bucks for.
Doesn't take away from the work we produced though...
Enjoy
https://vimeo.com/193693723?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=28749
For Ray Lewis' other work look here... It's a must!
https://vimeo.com/fleabilly
https://www.flickr.com/photos/raylewis/
http://fleabilly.tumblr.com/
And a couple of books you can buy also from Mr Fox and Black Swan... Photoshoots he did!
http://www.blurb.com/b/1927599-black-swan-portraits
http://www.blurb.com/b/987773-ray-lewis-select-photographs
