John Bigboote Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 This has been a fun little project, every month Jet's Pizza asks for 1-3 little vignettes to add to their Facebook page to keep it lively... highlighting some event for that month. Initially, they wanted 2D hand-drawn animation... and as I have aged I have not had the where-with-all to do 2D hand-drawn cartoons anymore... its a LOT of toil! I designed JetMan in A:M trying to keep within their established design and added the SAUCY Rig to animate him, render with the toon shader... its working pretty good! Each month 2-3,000 people view the segments- and Jet's is happy with the turnout. They give me a very-very rough idea and the freedom to take it from there... I try to put between 4-8 hours into each and there is usually 1 easy revision round. The fun part is quickly coming-up with the various 'props'... like a stadium for football, a cupid, a basketball backboard, a lit-up Christmas tree, a 4-Corner Pizza character...! LOADS of effects added in After Effects, and all music and sound-effects are Royalty-Free from the Youtube sound library. https://youtu.be/CS3UVitonDY 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Good on ya Matt! 4-8 hrs on each - wow - YOU are fast! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Great series do you get any Pizza delivered to inspire you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted March 2, 2016 Author Share Posted March 2, 2016 Thanks, no- no pizza. Jet's has fantastic pizza and I would weigh 400 lbs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elm Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Love that dude! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted April 12, 2016 Author Share Posted April 12, 2016 Doing a 4 part 'comic-book' style animation for Jets... featuring Jet Man's quest for 'the Perfect Aloha BBQ Chicken Pizza'... I have all 4 parts done and will show them here as Jets Pizza releases them. A:M was used to keep Jet Man 'in-character', rest is a big After Effects build... HEAVY use of the 'Turbulent Displacement' distort filter thruout to gain simple motions. Here is Part 1: https://www.facebook.com/JetsPizza/?fref=ts Can't seem to link right to the video (dang Facebook!) so look under their 'videos' header. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted April 13, 2016 Hash Fellow Share Posted April 13, 2016 Those look real good, Matt. I thought, "That's too good to be A:M's toon shader" but I'm glad to be wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 2nd episode is up now too... the 'plot thickens'... so does the pizza sauce! Actually, I render out from A:M with the toon shader, I make minor embellishments in Photoshop sometimes- because there are so few limited frames... and then I am putting a cartoon shader on again ovder it in after-effects, which can redouble the toon-shaders effect. I have to avoid some things like the pizza, which looks weird with a toon shader. PRODUCT IS KING! This entire cartoon consisted of four 6-panel storyboards which the agency had produced. They had a video editor working on it in avid (wtf?)and they didnt like his results. I looked at the boards and liked the story with it's ups-and-downs and agreed to take over ONLY if I could recreate the art my way, which meant 3D A:M Jet Man, and they said yes. I did 4 episodes in 1 week, last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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