Ethan wanted to do a small bit of animation with Johnny Hiro. We talked a good deal about what I wanted, and he seemed pretty confident he could do it. I felt pretty confident it would take a lot of time and kick our butts, as we were just a couple kids, we had no bigger crew.
Back in March, I got way drunk on my birthday. I had a work-from-home day the following day, but unfortunately, I didn’t really get up until the afternoon, and I knew I couldn’t fit in a full day’s work. So I called up Ballard. We went out and shot a little bit of footage.
I sketched out Johnny Hiro’s run out for Ethan. Cartoons, of course, are generally exaggerated, and because of that, we knew we couldn’t base movements on actual people. Here’s the first bit of sketching:
From that, we were able to put a skeltest together.
Soon, we flushed out the trip, run, and fish.
We spent the last few months with every bit of extra time going to this 40-second project, which, though short, I’m really proud of considering it was just a three-person job. Here’s what we ended up with:
I can’t thank Ethan enough for this project–we really kicked his butt on this one. Plus, he composed the music, which I think is bad-ass. If you like this, just do me a quick favor and check out his site: herrmedia.com
And incredible thanks to Ballard as well. His site is ballardcboyd.com
Good dudes to have my back. Now I’m tired. Now I get to work on other stuff.
Rock on, doggs.
July 19, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Holy crap that’s awesome!!
July 19, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Rock on! Thanks, Hopkins!
July 19, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Nice work! Pretty funny that I had just asked you about animation too. I can tell that definitely took a long time to make!
July 19, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Dude, I was biting my tongue when you asked me that. I didn’t want to jinx anything. But yeah, way happy with how it turned out.
July 23, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Dude That was super fun to watch! Sorry I missed the re-re-re-release of JH this past friday 😦 had a wedding to go to.
Anyway if you guys are shooting more stuff I’m happy to help produce as you know I love ur JH series.
July 23, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Dude! Glad you liked! I don’t got anything in the works at this point but next time I do, I’ll gladly hit you up!