Animation for Rewind This

So last year I was contracted to make an animation for the great documentary Rewind This! and it was an amazing experience. The basic outline was to make sort of a timeline to show the different video formats throughout the ages, from initial to today. I didn't touch upon all of them, but I covered major ground.

Since I had a limited time to work on this short outside of the hours of my day job on the video games, I decided to use elements of UPA cartoons and Terry Gilliam style cut out animation, but of course in my own style.

So here we go! (Also ignore the buffering time out it's going to do at the end, it's an intentional joke on streaming video)




So on that note, here's some initial sketches I did for the characters I would use:

 

Also there's a complete animatic I had turned in ahead of time:

 

The ol' Imaginary Film

Hello blog! I think it's about time I start filling this section in again about what's been going on now that my website is in a completed state. See it at www.mrseanlane.com!

Also, here's a preview of finished animation for the Imaginary Film short, a sort of music video to a lesser known Blur song:


I will post my concept for this very soon after the jump. I've taken a bit of a break from this short for other projects, but I am dead set on completing this as the animation only gets better (if you're seen the storyboards) as well as more interesting as it goes. There's a great shift in tone that I can't wait to tackle in this piece.

Be sure to click to go to Vimeo to see it at full size!