After finishing our third animated short film Tasteful, we knew we wanted to go all in on festival submission. I’ve had some experience with free or cheap festivals when I submitted Lift Up in 2014, but with Tasteful I wanted …
Making an Animated Short Film – The Making of Tasteful
I’ve recently released my 3rd animated short film Tasteful, and I decided to take some time to write about all the steps behind making the film, from start to finish, explaining them as simply as I can, so that even …
Making the Trailer for Tasteful
In this post I will cover my process of creating the trailer for our latest animated short film Tasteful. Before you keep reading I suggest watching the trailer (it’s only 39 seconds long). Music first The first thing I did, believe …
Why I’m Charging $5 to watch a 2 Minute Film
Dear angry people. Yesterday I have released our new animated short film Tasteful, and unlike my previous two shorts, this one can only be bought on our website and is not available for free on YouTube/Vimeo. Not only that, but …
Tasteful Has Been Released and You Can Watch It Right Now
I’m extremely excited to announce that our latest 3D animated short film Tasteful has finally been released! After over two years of production we are very excited to release this work of love to you guys. Thank you Team Foodz …
How We Rendered Tasteful
In the past few weeks I’ve been finishing the rendering and compositing of Tasteful, if you follow me on Instagram you probably saw frames I posted here and there, but let’s go deeper into exactly how I rendered the film. …
The Despair of Filmmaking
I’d like to share a personal moment with you. A despairing moment in the production of Tasteful that you might find interesting. The film is in its final rendering stages, which means it is near completion, but I wanted to …
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 …
