Jason's CTN look of picture

This is so awesome. I've watched it a hundred times and still I'm in awe.

Scarecrow is animated by juggernaut Jason Ryan, lit by Larry Vasquez, surfaced by Barrett Davis, Scot Andreason, Megan Walker. He's modeled, rigged and surfaced by Victor Vinyals, designed by Pierre Perifel and voiced by C.V. Canoe. Audio by Jamey Scott.

Thanks to all of you for lending your genius!!


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Imported Fairy Tale Nightmare and Lucy Plog

Hello all-

Just fyi I imported the blog posts from "Fairy Tale Nightmare" and my Lucy Plog from benrush.net so we now have the full history of Lucy production since its inception right here on Anatomy of a Nightmare. The newly imported posts are from 2009 to 2005.

Here you'll find Lucy's humble beginnings- including my original attempt at the story as a previz short (see April 2008), and the struggles of developing it as a feature, with many entries of great character/creature concept work by Pierre Perifel, Ken Morrissey and others (2009), onward and upward to our current high-flying animation!

I hope you enjoy!

Cheers,
b

Look of Picture Test

In time for CTN, we'll be pushing a shot through our interim pipeline- Jason Ryan's shot 27 from sequence 2. This won't be the look of the final film, but a sketch of how we might approach the lighting and surfacing of the environment and Scarecrow. Scarecrow is voiced by CV Canoe. Here is Jason's animation:

Surfacing treatment by Barrett Scott, Megan Wilson, and Scot Andreason (in 1 week!)


Lighting and rendering are forthcoming... stay tuned!

Color keys

Sequence 1 - pale blue, weather


Sequence 2 - "Fincher green" noir

Latest and greatest WIP surfacing from Barrett with final modeling

Fairytale Nightmare blog

Our old blog, which has a number of great designs from Pierre shows some of the feature film development. Just wanted to post the link for those of you who haven't seen this stuff yet.

Fairytale Nightmare

Rastko Stefanovic rough pose for seq1 with wet hair

Very happy with the shapes Rastko was able to achieve with the hair rig. Also a nice glimpse at our final Lucy facial modeling.

Ben Willis rough blocking s17

Sets, camera, and character animation are works-in-progress.

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Ben Willis rough blocking s17 from ben rush on Vimeo.

Updated model and surfacing - WIP

Tiny changes by Victor Vinyals and Barrett Davis- Transparency in hair yet to be added, specular on eyes in progress.

Barrett Davis amazing Lucy surfacing with SSS - WIP

Immanuel Matias Final Interior

We're going to distort the heck out of this beautiful model!

Jason's latest Scarecrow

Thanks as always for the inspiration J!

Haunted House Interior

Please welcome our latest star talent, environment modeler Immanuel Matias.
Amazing work Immanuel!

Lucy Model

An early peek at our protagonist!

House transformation rigging test

Prelim rig design by Angelo Sta. Catalina and modeling by Larry Vasquez.

stair case rig test from iAnimate on Vimeo.

Scarecrow test

Finally had a chance to try out Scarecrow-- the rig's amazing. Wish I had more time to polish this-

An update- Layout and modeling for the opening sequences are well underway thanks to Todd Glover and iAnimate's jack of all trades, Larry Vasquez. Lighting and surfacing is now underway on these two environments courtesy Barrett Davis and his associates from Texas A & M. I've heard the first notes of our score which we are sculpting into a "signature melody"-- a haunting identity for the piece, and all dialog has been recorded including CV Canoe, who plays Scarecrow quite brilliantly imho! Enjoy!

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Untitled from ben rush on Vimeo.

Jason Ryan Scarecrow test

Cesar Dacol Jr.

I'm pleased to announce master character artist Cesar Dacol Jr. will be joining the project. Cesar is a legend in the industry and currently available for freelance. For more info please visit his site. It'll blow your mind.

Victor's first pass surfacing

Ruins sequence

Lastest and greatest from Alfredo Cassano

Lucy Trailer - Ruins Sequence from ben rush on Vimeo.

(Lucy will be saying her lines to the scarecrow in the field, not to the dirt as depicted here.)

Lucy Trailer

Please visit our new blog where we'll be documenting production of the Lucy feature film trailer.

Played with a Scarecrow pose last night

This rig is so much fun. Great silhouette value with Pierre's design.

Victor's latest and greatest Scarecrow model

Rig coming soon. I can't wait to bring this evil thing to life.

The script

is complete, but remains pliable until this project is in the can!

Alfredo Cassano - Seq01 animatic

Victor Vinyals and Pierre Perifel

Pierre's evil designs...

...realized in Victor's brilliant first pass modeling of Scarecrow.

Officially underway

The script is done and it's off to the races! Pierre Perifel's character designs are now with Victor Vinyals, our modeler, rigger... Jamey Scott is signed on as audio engineer/designer, and will be providing the recording facility. Pro musicians Paul Harrington, Warren Caudle and Doug Eldridge of Oleander will be crafting our score and Alfredo Cassano is lending his talents as our board artist. Larry Vasquez and Todd Glover are modeling environments and Angelo Sta Catalina is rigging them.

Thanks to all for joining the cause!

Cheers!

More environment reference material

More great findings from Todd