Riddick: Blindsided - Motion Comic

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Riddick: Blindsided

Motion Comic

Riddick: Blindsided is a motion comic based on storyboarded scenes of the third film that didn't make the theatrical cut. It takes place shortly before the events of Riddick and bridges that film with the previous one. The director's cut of Riddick reinserts most of the material covered in Blindsided back into the film. It was released online a month before the release of the third film to generate buzz and it is also included with the movie's home video release.

This piece was particularly challenging -- we were being delivered finished line-art illustrations based on the storyboards as we were completing shots. Each illustration then had to be split apart, rigged, textured, animated, and finally composited to attempt to bring some life and movement to the motion comic, in a way that had not been done up to that point. Creating entire animations from single images was a really fun problem to try and solve.

(Also as a fan of the Riddick Universe, this project was very exciting to work on.)