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Making Money from Animated Shorts

Making money. A topic that is rarely discussed on this blog, and one that artists tend to stay away from, fearing ideas like “Selling out” or “compromising your art”. However, I believe this is an important issue to talk about, especially …

Modeling the Trucks for Tasteful

In this team meeting I sat down with Muriel (our producer) and Kat (our hard surface modeler) to talk about the modeling approach for the food trucks in the movie. The food trucks are one of the most important things …

Designing the poster for Tasteful

In this meeting I talk with Angela about the vision for designing the poster for the film. In the video you can see me sketch the concept of what I want the poster to look like, and also the finished …

Figuring out the Main Musical Theme for Tasteful

In this fun conversation Galo and I go over different musical themes for Tasteful, trying to find the right one. Watch as we listen to some tests Galo recorded, and see how we respond to the different options.

Getting to the Specifics of the Food Truck Design

In this conversation I get down to the nitty gritty of the design of the food trucks. There a 4 different food trucks in the movie, one of them has 3 variations. That’s a lot of trucks to discuss. The …

Sound and Music – First Meeting with the Sound Team

In this meeting, Muriel (the producer), Ben (the sound designer), Galo (the composer) and myself sit down to discuss the workflow for working together and setting up all the pieces to create an awesome soundtrack for Tasteful.

Food Truck Design

In this design meeting I sat with Elizabeth to discuss the food trucks in Tasteful. There are total of 5 different designs that were needed, and in this video we went over them all. We get very technical in this …

First Concept Art Meeting

This was the first meeting with the concept art team and it occurred 3 days into the production of the film so everything was still in its earliest stages. In the meeting we tried to establish the artists direction for the film, but …

Aspect Ratio (2.35:1 vs 16:9)

In this post I want to cover the topic of aspect ratio, mostly deciding between 2.35:1 vs 16:9. I’m going to show you different kinds of popular aspect ratios, when should you use them and which one I’ll be using …