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Let’s Talk Politics

Elias Dancey — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:58:56 +0000

Here is a fun animated television commercial we created for a non-partisan political website sponsored by a local news organization.

Decision Virginia from Eastwood Media on Vimeo.

For some added fun, I’ve included the rough pencil test animation below.

You can see how it is not fully smoothed out with inbetween animation. This is for posing and pacing and acting. I enjoyed playing the character of the two, and attempted to make their motions and speech interesting beyond simple mouth movements.

Once the staging was complete I would go on to finish the inbetween frames to get the animation looking smooth.

Then I would go over everything a final time in full color.

After that each character was output in full on it’s own. They would be reassemble later in post production where the whip-pan and other motion effects were added.

-Elias

Decision Virginia – Pencil Test from Eastwood Media on Vimeo.

The Celestial Knight

Elias Dancey — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:31:23 +0000

The Celestial Knight
I saw some student work the other day while surfing around… so I dug up this old sophomore effort of mine. This is my very first animated piece, produced in 1996.

It was drawn on paper using pencil…. and, believe it or not, at times – straight in ink! How crazy was I?

Some fun facts:

1) I took a generic character design on mine and did a “Reverse Popeye.” Popeye, of course, has tiny biceps and giant forearms. In this case I did pencil thin thighs and giant calf muscles. This made the character design more unique.

2) The project was shot on a film stand. 16mm film stock.

3) Yes, that is a mushroom character that is dragging his sword around as a squire.

Enjoy.

Celestial Knight – Pencil Test from Eastwood Media on Vimeo.

Behind every good man, is a better sketch

Elias Dancey — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:53:21 +0000

Welcome to the Drawn in Eastwood blog. Here you’ll find a variety of things. We’ll show you some of the background development behind some of our projects. We’ll post links to other work that interests us. We may even show you in-progress work as it unfolds, from time to time.

The first thing I thought we would do is post some sketches behind the “Distressed Man” art work that you can find in our portfolio or on our facebook page.

This is interesting for two reasons.

One: This is a fun “before and after” reveal that we hope you’ll enjoy.

Two: You can see the genesis of doing a series of these business man poses. Exampled is some of the variety that was sketched just in discovering this one pose. It hopefully hints at what other potential might exist for other dramatic situations and moods for this character, including: arrogant, suave, victorious, persuasive, proud, intimidated, angry, pushy, etc.

– Elias Dancey