ICE
Directed by Robert Valley
Once again, Passion Animation Studios gave my the amazing chance to animate the machines and many FX, along with handling a part of the final compositing on Robert Valley's "ICE" episode from Netflix "Love, Death + Robots - Volume 2" animated series.
It was so freakin awesome again.
I also worked on developping a 2d animated version of the frost whales.
While starting to take shape, it remained unused in the final film as it was decided at some point to go all CG for the whales. Though the 2d animations served as references for the CG version so I thought it would be nice to share and give it the opportunity to be seen as it directly brought to life Derek Thompson's awesome designs.
So here are some of the shots I worked on, I couldn't upload all of them as there are quite a lot but this is a selection of the most interesting and noticeable ones to work on, along with some process and breakdown videos that I hope you'll find interesting to watch as well.
Note that every machines have been rigged and animated with After Effects from Patricio Betteo's 2d designs, compositing and FX all done in After Effects as well. I worked exclusively as a 2d artist on this film (for both animation and compositing).
Hope you'll enjoy this glimpse of behind the scenes, thanks for watching!
> Machine and FX animation, final compositing of the opening shot
Final shot
Machines and FX animation details
Machine alternative animation (unused)
> The very first machine animation I did for proof of concept
Final shot - Compositing by Johnny Still
Machine and fx colored animation details
Machine animation details
> Sometimes you have to animate very tiny details, and it's often a lot of fun and the opportuynity to test weird techniques, so here is a bottle animation animated in 2d in AE:
Final shot - compositing by Nick Herbert
Bottle animation details
> Machines stand by animation
Final shot - compositing by Nick Herbert
Machine animation details
> Wave FX animation and final compositing :
Final shot
Compositing breakdown
Wave FX animation detail
> Trippy place final compositing
Final shots
Compositing breakdown
Compositing breakdown
> Frost Whales breakthrough
Final shots
Compositing breakdown
2d Frost whale animation developement v001
2d Frost whale animation developement v002
2d Frost whale and FX animation developement v004
2d Frost whale animation detail - Frost whale Design by Derek Thompson
> Machines animation and sequence final compositing
Final shots
Compositing breakdown
Compositing breakdown
Compositing breakdown
Thanks for watching!
