In-house sequence for use on the reel, and wherever else it seems appropriate.

Closing mockup showing how we transition to black.

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Explosion check

What could I possibly say? Nortega silliness. It makes for some fun loops if you fiddle with the frames.

Added firing frames. Casings still to come.

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Casings added. Bodies next.

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Linestests for near BG characters falling to machinegun fire. With judicious timing these three can be doubled up for the half of the rotation that passes by before the transition.

Additional BG elements next.

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Secondary BG characters with limited animation. One final plate and perhaps a nice explosion will round out the BG elements.

Composite for c004. With all costume/design corrections…

Here are color frames 1-20 for cut10 of Meteor. Final effects and color treatment have not been added. Also the background is temporary. 

Possible concepts for Bike spot.

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A few images for the jumprope cut.

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Mood board and production notes. (more…)

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A few concept images for Nike spot. The colors should compliment the shoes. Flexible and sexy baby. Performance for the formally fairer sex. All these things and more after you press the “see more” button below!
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More animations after the jump:

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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…

Work in progress for grunt feeding room.

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Here is an early test we did for our West Coast friends at BuckLA… this was a fun look. Although thinking back it was very complex and difficult to execute properly…. heck we still had a blast working on it. Especially with all the hand drawn elements in the 3d space.

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Another in a long line of abandoned Spike TV bumpers, these had a style that would have been a bitch to animate… but damn it would have been worth it.

Here are some way back frames from the first episode of the Kenny the Shark spinoff show Kenny’s Home Movies. Maybe this was 2003? Good grief we’re getting old…

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little character thing:

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Here is a collection of some shots that were part of a :30 spot. This is a good example of the type of line test animatics we do here at Humouring the Fates. We did these for the good folks at Buck LA. These never got made but it sure would have been cool to see these through the paces… maybe next time… or when some AMPM account holder stumbles accross this page and demands that these kernels of kool are popped & produced.