‘The Dudes,’ sketchbook life drawing. Pen and ink, colored pencil, felt-tip and Photoshop.
Giles Timms
www.gilestimms.com
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WIP Color Comp Cut-Out Character
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.
Freelance Project WIP
WIP drawings for a freelance animation project. The drawings will be edited, textured and colored in Photoshop and then assembled and rigged in After Effects for cut-out style animation.
Sunset Stories End Title Sequence: Stills One
A collection of still images rendered from my animated end title sequence for the film ‘Sunset Stories,’ directed by Silas Howard and Ernesto Foronda, 2012. Sunset Stories‘ stars Monique Curnen and Sung Kang with a cameo by Kevin Bacon.
I designed, illustrated and animated the end title sequence using Photoshop, After Effects and hand drawn characters and props.
Here is the official synopsis of the film:
“May, a high-strung and overly meticulous nurse, must return to Los Angeles to retrieve bone marrow for a transplant. Soon after her trip begins, her world turns upside down when past and present collide and she runs smack into JP, the man she left behind five years ago. Flustered, May loses the cooler containing the marrow. With only 24 hours remaining, the two embark on an offbeat search through the streets of Los Angeles only to discover that just when you think all is lost you find what you least expected.”
Although my end title design is not a literal translation of the film, I did adhere to the poetic theme of the film. The following is the logline or theme of my end credits:
May journeys through a fairy-tale environment, and encounters the cast of characters as fairytale archetypes. Hidden within the environment and sometimes a part of the environment itself, the cooler is always just out of reach.
‘Sunset Stories’ premieres at SXSW tomorrow :)
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
Buckaroo
Sketchbook drawings (pen and ink) colored, textured and composited in Photoshop.
Barbarian
Barbarian from my sketchbook. Hand drawn in pen and ink and colored in Photoshop.Lucky, an HBO Documentary
I created several of the animated sequences for ‘Lucky,’ a documentary that aired on HBO last month.
The documentary, by Jeffrey Blitz, aired on July 19th as part of HBO’s summer of documentaries. ‘Lucky’ focuses on “chronicling the many, and often sobering, effects winning a big jackpot can have on a person” (Television review: ‘Lucky’ on HBO by the Los Angeles Times).
The above character design is Miss Lotto. She was one of the characters that never made it into the final cut. Miss Lotto is a very simple cut-out character composited and animated in After Effects. Miss Lotto was drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom, lightly textured in Photoshop, cut out and then all her girly bits were imported into After Effects.
Lucky premiered at Sundance 2010.
Tribute Illustration for the Cover of MungBeing Magazine
This is the illustration, entitled ‘Tribute,’ that I created for the cover of MungBeing Magazine. The illustration was for Issue #31 for the theme of tribute. Hand drawn, colored in Photoshop and composited in After Effects.
If you’d like a free iPhone/iPod Touch sized wallpaper, you can download a wallpaper of this illustration here: http://www.gilestimms.com/wallpapers.html
Thanks to Mark Givens, editor of MungBeing :)
Wedding Invitation
Angie and I are getting married on July 22nd, 2010 :)
The above is the comic book styled wedding invitation that I made and had printed through lulu. Hand drawn and colored in Photoshop. The illustrations for the mini comic book invitation were inspired by the work of one of my favorite illustrators, Nate Williams.
If you’d like an actual printed book of the invitation you can buy a copy on lulu: Wedding Invitation – Giles and Angie.
