Short film - Groggy Champion

[Jeepy]

The film will have a very cartoony style. Here's an example of the police car we created for the movie. There's no texture, it's not complete and it's still in low rez but it's gonna give you a little idea of the style.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/fromageman/police.jpg

Cheers!

[softdistortion]

your concept sketches look humourous and very well done. Are you keeping a paint fx look like you have on the sketches?...will be very interested to see your texture style :bounce:

[BOY1DA]

looks great, love the concepts, what's done so far and what is the game plan
as far as production goes...

[Kid-Mesh]

Looks really cool mate..feels early Pixar-ish which is cool. I hope you guys update this thread. I'll be checking in for sure :thumbsup:

[comical-loser]

The style for this film looks great. I am a huge fan of anything with a carttony edge. THis looks like it could be something really cool. I am open to helping if you wish :D

[Jeepy]

Hey!

softdistortion: Yes we intend to keep a paint look fx on the movie but without being toonshade. THere's a lot more to give a nice 2D look than just pushing a button!! :D We are still doing R&D on this to find the perfect look. We are close to what we want, but I guess there's still a few more weeks of work ahead of us on ''finalising'' the look.

BOY1DA: Game plan... always important to have one! THanks for the crits.

Kid-Mesh: Thanks for the early pixar-ish crits! It's always feels good! We'll keep this thread updated for sure. We'll post our developments as far the production goes and show you where we are, without showing too much of course (I guess we're being superstitious, or old since we're all around 30 or so:rolleyes:)!

comical-loser: Feel free to PM if you want to join the team!

That's about it for now, I'll try to post a few pages from the board later today.

Cheers and thanks again for the crits.

[softdistortion]

Yes we intend to keep a paint look fx on the movie
was hoping to hear that! will be exciting to see done propery. I'll be following intently to see how you get it looking. :thumbsup:

[BuckBeaver]

I also really like the style of this so far based on the images you've posted. What kind of influences do you have?

Please keep updating the thread with more great stuff!

[Jeepy]

I also really like the style of this so far based on the images you've posted. What kind of influences do you have?

Please keep updating the thread with more great stuff!

Our influence... Ish... the 200$ question. It's pretty hard to say actually since Vermette the co-director (and so much more) on the project and I both have a non-cg background. Vermette comes for the 2D world. He's a hell of a storyboarder here in Montreal and he's also a "bédéiste" a comics creator. So he's influence his coming from this world since he's working in that field for about 10 years now. For my part, I'm a script-writer and live action director. So my influence is mostly live action, any good story or books and my childhood cartoon. I must say one of my all time favorites movie is "Le roi et l'oiseau (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079820/)" a french 2d movie and it really kick ass! I'm also inspired (and Vermette as well) by the NFB of Canada, which produced Ryan last year.

Recently I must admit I'm really impressed by anything that come out of the french school Les Gobelins. Man they're 10 years younger than me and the blow my mind each year!

We both felt in CG by accident a few years ago and trust me you are stuck with us now!

Cheers!

[Jeepy]

Here's the 2 first pages of the board! I'll keep the 47 other pages confidential for the moment! :)

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/fromageman/001.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/fromageman/002.jpg

Cheers!

[comical-loser]

Well these storyboards look pretty good so far. They only peak my interest more so :P

[russo88]

do you still need modelers? i can help ya if your intrested

[Jeepy]

do you still need modelers? i can help ya if your intrested

Always need modelers! Check you PM for more details!

By the way any riggers out there interested??

Cheers!

[D-Alexander]

this looks pretty cool, i might be able to give you a hand but...

i am a 3dsmaxer so i could probably export .obj to maya so if that would be okay i would love to help with some enviroments.

good luck on the project!

[Jeepy]

Just got back from a 3 weeks trip to Italy!

I'll just try to get some sleep and I'll write back to all PM I received!

No worries, the project is still very on and kickin'!!

Cheers!

[comical-loser]

Well thats good to hear :D

How was the trip? :P

[Jeepy]

this looks pretty cool, i might be able to give you a hand but...

i am a 3dsmaxer so i could probably export .obj to maya so if that would be okay i would love to help with some enviroments.

good luck on the project!

Hey!

You can model in any software and export it to obj. We really don't mind. :)

Cheers!

[russo88]

ok, im back now and im ready to roll. man, this project is gonna be fun

[Jeepy]

Here's some concept sketches created by the great Carlos:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/fromageman/generic_city2.jpg

[comical-loser]

Really sketches here. Especially that awesome little trailer :P

[Jeepy]

Sweet!!!

The team is complete!! We finally have all the people we needed and wanted. It's really great.

I'll post a characters turnaround or two soon !

Cheers!

[russo88]

sweetness, lets get rollin!
:bounce:

[russo88]

ok, heres a WIP of Robert's house. i just did it real quick so i could get some comments and get a better idea of what i need to do. :thumbsup:

http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/359/shousewip3hv.gif

[omega3d]

Good job russell ... Keep that practice comin!

Good job guys.. Looking forward to seeing some funn-ness!

Pecae out.
Jon

[Jeepy]

ok, heres a WIP of Robert's house. i just did it real quick so i could get some comments and get a better idea of what i need to do. :thumbsup:

http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/359/shousewip3hv.gif

That's a really good start Russell. I'll PM you some detailed comments. Keep up the good work.

Cheers!

[bullock]

This looks like a very funny project! I like the style!

Good luck to all of you!:thumbsup:

[GameFace]

Will you guys Need Maya animators? if so let me know I would be willing lend a helping hand if need be. ruelsmith@gmail.com
-Ruel

[Jeepy]

Ha!! Summer!!!

With all the sun outside, the production took a little slower pace, but we are still working really hard on the project.

The modelling is going well, the R&D too, even the music is coming along!

We just need a few rainy days to be more productive!

I'll post some progress jpg soon...

Cheers!

[Jeepy]

Hello everybody,

Just to show somw of us are still working even if it's crazy hot these days, you can find a little QT of generic cars (still low rez) created for the shorts!

http://www.groggy-champion.com/QT/CarZ.mov

More stuff on the way soon...

Cheers!

[kiteman]

ohh ! nice project ! :) .. cant wait to see more of your stuff :thumbsup:

[Jeepy]

ohh ! nice project ! :) .. cant wait to see more of your stuff :thumbsup:

Thanks!

More stuff will be on the way... I guess it's going to wait till end of august before I can post some interesting new stuff.

Cheers!

[jmvadell79]

Hi, my name is Juanmi, now I'm living in A Coruña, Spain, and nowadays I'm working as character animator in a a film (Holy Night!), I've been working as character animator in some TV Series.

I think your short film characters are really nice, I love them :D
I'd like to collaborate with you in animation, testing characters setup or animating some shots if you want that...

Online only have my first work in 3d, "La Opresion", a shortfilm made as final project in an animation master (2004) : http://www.3dpoder.com/laopresion3d (you will be able to watch it at school website: www.maisca.com , in section "galeria")

Best of luck! :thumbsup:

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