After a year of production, countless of video tutorials and articles, I’m proud to release LIFT UP, the first animated short produced under Bloop Animation. This has been quite a journey, starting with an idea to do something cool with a …
Lead Artist Shawn Hopkins Talks About Making the Backgrounds for LIFT UP
When I approached creating the backgrounds for Lift Up I initially tried doing them myself. That turned out to be a mistake. I was just not good at it and the backgrounds were ugly. It’s sometimes hard as an artist and …
Editing and Color Correction (Making an Animated Movie)
In this video I go over my entire edit file (in After Effects) and show you exactly how I layered all the shots to create the final edit, as well as what effects I’m adding at the end of the process, …
How I rendered this shot using Maya Software and no lights (Making an Animated Movie)
Lighting and Rendering In this part of our ‘Making of’ series I’m going to show you how I lit and rendered the entire film, using only the basic Maya software renderer (Not Mental Ray or VRay) and without creating any lights. …
How to Animate (Making an Animated Movie)
We’re finally here. The animation part. For me, this is both the funnest and hardest part of making an animated movie. The reason it is fun is because, well, I love animating. If you’re here then there must be a …
Why Make a Second Film
Here’s a fact: every person that graduated from animation/film school has a short film. Here’s another fact: very few people have ever made another one. The second film The film/animation industry is intense. When you get a job or a project, the hours …
LIFT UP – Coming July 8th 2014!
I’m happy to officially announce – Bloop Animation’s animated short film LIFT UP is being released on July 8th! We are nearly done with the production, and there are still more tutorials coming up about the making process (such as …
Picking a Name for the Film (Making an Animated Movie)
In this post of the Making an Animated Film series I’ll tell you why I’m changing the title of my film, the process I went through with name finding and my result. Why the change? When I picked the name Geometry Exercise, …
Camera Shots and Angles (Making an Animated Movie)
Great cinematography is always challenging to achieve. Great and convincing cinematography in 3D is even more complicated. In this post I’ll go over the challenges of using a camera in 3D, as well as the camera rigs I used for my film …
