WIP color comp cut-out character for a freelance animation project. Hand-drawn and edited, textured and colored in Photoshop. The character will be assembled and rigged in After Effects for cut-out style animation.
Giles Timms
www.gilestimms.com
color comp
Cooler Opening Title Design, Cutout Animation Character Chaz
Above is a cutout animation character called ‘Chaz’ for the opening tile sequence that I am animating for the independent film, ‘Cooler’. I am also animating several animated sequences within the film.
This model sheet shows my cutout character design process and includes my initial character design hand drawn on paper with pencil, pen and ink, the cutout body bits colored and textured in Photoshop and the final character rig assembled in After Effects. I’ve also included screen shots of the cutout character in Photoshop (with the live action character reference) and the rigged character in After Effects.
‘Cooler’ is directed by Silas Howard and Ernesto Foronda.
‘Cooler’ on IMDB
Shinedown Music Video Treatment
Neil Diamond Treatment
I’ve been busy with freelance commercial work and have neglected my blog. Plus I had to upgrade WordPress and migrate to a new host, which I just completed this week. With the migration and upgrade complete I’ll be back to posting regularly. Anyway, above is a color comp, cut-out design and character design I put together for a music video treatment I submitted last year for Neil Diamond through RW Media. I didn’t get the gig :(
Faerie and Baby Color Comp Illustration
Faerie and baby color comp illustration for a freelance animation project. Hand drawn on paper and colored in Photoshop.
Freelance Character Design
Some character designs and color comps for a freelance gig I did for the client Walter Robot Studios. Hand drawn in pencil and pen and ink, colored in Photoshop.
Dead All Along – Color Comps
Work in progress for my next project at UCLA. These are color comps and character designs for an animated music video for “Dead All Along” performed by the amazingly talented, Ceri Frost. This is a terrific song by Ceri.
Logline: Peekle the faun, a mystical animal link to nature, realizes that he and nature are dead to mankind.
The death spoken of in the song is the death of man’s reverence for nature. At one time, man recognized that animals represented a mystical link to nature and the divine. Peekle is a spirit animal or totem animal who linked man with nature and the divine, and facilitated man’s communion with nature and the divine. Now, man no longer sees the spirit animals and has forgotten how to commune with them. Peekle is therefore dead to men, and nature and the divine are lost to us. The words and music of nature no longer inspire men.
Work in progress, hand drawn and Photoshop.
Peekle
Character design and color comp for Peekle. Watercolor, pen and ink and digital.
Baxter Color Comp, Set Four
Baxter Color Comp, Set Three
Color comps for Baxter and his world. Colored in photoshop.