Image of the Day - Storyboards

The ship will be resuming course shortly...

Image of the Day - Screen Test

Image of the Day - Something different

Image of the Day - Compositing

Click for a video of what goes into shot 058.

Image of the Day - Open all the boxes!

Storyboard and final shot for comparison. Click for the larger image.

Image of the Day - Bubbles bubbles bubbles!

Image of the Day - Arken

Image of the Day - More from the deep sea!

Image of the Day - Shot 085 is Double Done!

A comparison of the storyboard frame and the final shot. Click for the animation!

Image of the Day - Shot 085 WIP

Image of the Day - Weekend Edition - Evan Eats

Click for the tiny video!

Image of the Day - Colonol Mustard; in the kitchen; with the cellphone!

Oh the ubiquitous cellphone....bloodied....whatever could it mean?

Image of the Day - The Early Years

One of the first sketches when I started toying with the idea of an underwater short almost three years ago. The sketch is of a deep sea dive suit (and a lot of scribbles).

PS - You can click on the images in each post for a bigger version (or video).

Image of the Day - Fishies!

Image of the Day - Sam - Final Character Design

The final character design for Sam. I am going for an animated comic feeling so this is very close to how she should look in the final renders.

Image of the Day - Evan & Sam in 3D

Most of the beautiful 3D modeling is courtesy of Dan Fine. Check out more of Fathoms here.

Image of the Day - Birds of a feather...die together?

Image of the Day - Scavenger Arken - Wireframe

Image of the Day - Hard rain's gonna fall

Image of the Day - Particle test - bubbles

Image of the Day - Start to Finish - Stormy Seas

Image of the Day - Scavenger Arken - Concept Art

Image of the Day - Poster 1 of ...

Image of the Day - Scavenger Arken Surfaced

Image of the Day - Sam & Evan Character Design

Image of the Day - Evan Character Design

Image of the Day - Storyboards, pg1

Image of the Day - Think Zen

I'm cheating; this is two in one day...but I'm counting this fortune cookie for the weekend.

Image of the Day - Scavenger Arken - Early Tests

Image of the Day - Software

This is the stuff that we use the most (left to right):

OS X, Expose, Brains, Ableton Live, Cinema 4D, iChat, After Effects, Textedit, Firefox, Photoshop, Maya, Final Cut Pro, Quicktime, Illustrator, iTunes, and Mail.

Image of the Day - Live every week like it's shark week!

Clockwise left to right:
Bradley, Josh, Nick, Joe (behind the lens)

Image of the Day - ???

Image of the Day - Sam

A very short animation showing a test of the wind effecting Sam's hair.

Image of the Day - Scavenger Arken

Scavenger Arken - The salvaging vessel that Samantha & Evan pilot.

So it begins....ish

There have been a lot of requests for a blog to document the production process of this short film. There will be a lot of already created material in the next few posts....maybe a start to finish comparison of shots as they are created.

Thinking, writing, planning, and pre-production have all been in the works for about two years.

Production work began on my short animated film Fathoms on June 2nd 2008.