Scene Studies

The following drawings were made to study actions in several of the scenes. The first page has drawings of the boy just after he's found the gun and is showing how cool he is by doing some 'gunslinger poses', the second page shows him 'tripping' and losing control of the gun. The third page has Danger bouncing around 'playfully' and then dashing with more 'sharpness'.

Snow Storm Photo Set

A lot of things in Minnesota were canceled today due to extreme weather. I bundled up and got outside right at sunrise to take inspiration pictures and man I'm really happy how they turned out. I'll be borrowing a lot of shapes from the snow drifts and even some color. I like how the morning blues look and even some nice yellows to warm it up. I was glad I took these at sunrise before the sun got too high and the reflected light became blinding making it impossible to take good pics.

Looking at some of the color from my snowstorm pics, it made me think about the overall color of my work for this film, and I decided to put together some other nice winter scene pics that I found on google. This new package of inspiration I think will lead to some more artistic color choices.

3D Previs

I've collected some of the 3D assets that I've used along the way to help with character placement in perspective, scale, and posing. 3D artist Shannon Gilley was kind enough to provide the models and rigs of the characters.

Character Expressions

I feel like this film will live or die by the interactions of the characters, so I spent almost a whole summer in the sketchbook trying and testing all kinds of acting moments with the characters. While a lot of these poses might not make the final film, I learned a lot about what sort of expressions and angles work for what I have in mind.

Thumbnails

I've gone through a bunch of the old sketchbooks looking at all the idea sketches that were made 'just for me' to figure things out, and decided to make a collage showing some of the thumbnail process.

Snow Day Animatic 2/6/14

Snow Day Animatic 2/6/2014 from Jon Dege on Vimeo.

Random Sketches

I'm going through some of the first sketchbooks I started using on this project and found some fun early sketches that haven't made the final cut, but I thought would be neat to share. The first slide is a few turn sheets of the characters at sort of a mid point of design, not final, but not the first drawing either. They were drawn on some different textured paper, with blue pencil, white pencil, and marker. The second slide shows marker sketches from very early in the thought process. They are loose pen and marker drawings where I was mainly thinking about shapes.

Thumbnail Boards and Color Beats

I'm going through some of the preliminary story work and finding some neat stuff that I want to share. These next 3 slides are some of the initial passes of boarding. The first 2 are the thumbnails drawn on dry erase board and quickly tweaked in Photoshop. The last one is a color sequence I had done to try some blues, reds, and purples for different thumbnails of the story as I had seen it at that time.

Storyboards As Of 2/6/2014