Part of a fun little national campaign for the 100 year old Ferman Car Dealerships. We love doing all sorts of styles and techniques here at Fates.  This one utilized a paper wash technique that we were pretty proud of.

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A new(er) episode of Joe is Japanese that now has Japanese & English subtitles and a little more sound design. A new version is coming with some fixes to the animation mistakes.

Regardless, we’re hoping you like this one as much as we do. In real life the Island Masta is almost as much of an idiot as he appears in this episode. Almost.

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Just because lots of you were concerned, we’re all weathering fine down here. Lot of media hype about this storm, it’s no where near as bad as others. In fact the island has been rather pleasant through it all. Only major issue was one of our AC units blew up (maybe from debris?) and had to pull down the servers for a bit while repairs were made. Power and phones are up.

But here’s the funny part. The biyatch is turning around and coming back.

It seems that good ol’ hurricane season is interesting this year. We’re getting the craziest bank shot, as the storm finally gets downgraded to a tropical storm. It’s going to cross the peninsula and then immediately strengthen to a hurricane (again) and come right back around. What was pretty crazy about this storm is that it did NOT breakup and weaken when it made landfall. It held together very well and actually managed to intensify a bit. Kinda strange.

We should have taken some pics of the skies as they have been very interesting… they’ve looked more like compositing mistakes more than real atmospheric conditions. Hopefully everything plays out ok as this thing turns around… NOAA just predicted a even more southernly track than the pic over there. Kinda funny, but not really… Wish us luck.

UPDATE : Everythings ok here, little further north there’s MAJOR flooding. As the storm is literary traveling at 0 mph across the state…

New render for MangaMaus.

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Composite pass with lighting effects.

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Composite pass Cut037 Jackals shooting in tower.

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Composite pass for C006 with audio sync.

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Composite pass for Cut012.

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Here are the updated feeding room shots (C009,C011).

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Composite pass for C015.

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First round composites for 019-021. Still need to add a few background details and effects.

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Audio sync for Cut 008.

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Render for cut 040. Still tweaking out his rotation and the colors just a bit…

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Here is a quick speed paint on the feeding tubes for the Grunts.

audio sync for C019. After firing the rocket launcher.

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Here is an audio sync with ruff keys for C004. This cut then transitions into a whip zoom to reveal tunnel entrance. (more…)

Preliminary design for the feeding room. Lighting and textures to follow.

Here are the rest of the keys synced to audio for Cut 006.

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Wooohoo!! skiing madness! (more…)

C033 with lighting and fx.

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