This Environment Looks AWESOME!

I have fantastic environment/concept artists.

I can never say that enough.

This is an environment from Diego Abad and I just wanted to show you what a fantastic job he did!

Ambient Sound

I'd like to take a moment to draw your attention to the sound design of the film. We don't get to post as much about the sound but as you can probably tell from the rest of the film, it's an important part of what we're doing.

One particular part is the ambient sound that plays under the film at all time shaping the tone of scenes. Our fantastic sound guru, Alan Barnes, has a great talent for stitching together sounds from all avenue of creation to paint a picturesque sound scape.

CLICK BELOW TO FURTHER EXPLORE THE CREATION OF AMBIANCE IN HEARD

ALL-NEW INTRO VIDEO!!!

So!

It's been about a year since I first uploaded an intro video into the banner for this site as a way of introducing you fine people to the project. A lot of fine work, has been accomplished in that time and the blog has evolved quite a bit so I decided the intro video needed a face lift and a lot less wooden acting by me.

I wanted this new video to fully showcase what is featured on the blog: the film! That being the case, this new video introduction shows a lot of what has been posted over the past year and features a good sampling of what can be found on this blog.

I hope you enjoy and get a sense of not only what is currently posted but all the cool stuff we will be posting in the future!

Rough Shot 75

Thought I'd share progress on one of the more challenging pieces of animation in the film where our hero miraculously lands a one-handed seated back hand-spring while holding a bass guitar, narrowly avoiding the giant's crushing foot.

Yep.

Just another day working on Heard.

Unused Idea

So, thought it'd be interesting to show you one of the ideas I concepted out but just didn't work for the film.

This idea was particularly meant as an addition to the whispering voices / anxiety attack in the first act. I thought it might be good to back-up the themes with cords wrapping around and restraining the hero in his own negativity. Very BDSM!

These are just some rough concepts to illustrate the idea but they never got past this initial phase. I see value in the idea but it just doesn't work so we move on. C'est la vie.

I will be at HEROESCON this weekend!

You can find me HERE:

Generally walking around, talking to artists, and handing out the free promo mini-prints:

So, if you see me feel free to flag me down!

Poll Addition (revised)

So, I initially put this in a post but thought it was better suited for the sidebar.

Quick little Poll about what you guys wanna see on this blog moving forward. Thought I'd gauge your response and make sure I'm giving you the proper insight into the making of this film. Feel free to choose more than one answer.

And again, the poll is now on the sidebar and will keep going for as long as it is helpful. Go at it!