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“Messy goes to Okido” animation showreel 1

Animation / Portfolio

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“Messy goes to Okido” animation showreel

That’s it, with the “Dizzy” episode having aired last week, my final showreel is here!!!!

A lot of lessons were learnt working on the production, some positive, some negative but I am really proud of the result. I think it looks very impressive considering it was Doodle Productions first TV series. I will be looking back at the lessons learnt in a following post but for now, I hope you will enjoy this great show I was privileged to work on few years ago.

Ah! and if you live in the UK and want to see more episodes, here is a link with the latest episodes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/messy-goes-to-okido

[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/166612959[/vimeo]

Showreel cover image

Olivier Ladeuix “Messy goes to Okido” Showreel 2015

Pose library

Pose library I created for Mayor Oki’s character

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“Messy goes to Okido” Lolly’s ice cream van

“Messy goes to Okido”. Lolly’s Ice Cream van (environment rigging) 1

Animation / Character design / Comics / Education / Portfolio

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“Messy goes to Okido”. Lolly’s Ice Cream van (environment rigging)

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/138861480[/vimeo]

At the begining of Messy goes to Okido”‘s production, our TD needed some help to rig various props and environment so I gave him a hand for few weeks and mostly for the “Taste buddies” episode. I never got credits for this but I don’t care much since I don’t really want to advertise those skills too much. I am an animator and don’t want to land rigging jobs.

Among those props was the rigging of Lolly’s Ice cream van which was a lot of fun.

It was a bit of challenge as I hadn’t done that kind of stuff in Max for a very long time but at the end of the day it didn’t take too long since I was able to use the exact same techniques I would have used in Maya. I could have spend a bit more time on some areas but TV series require a really fast turnaround unfortunately so the entire rig had to be done and tested in less than two weeks I think I remember.

If you live in UK, you can see the rig in action on the BBC Iplayer right here:
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/cbeebies/episode/b069r3gk/messy-goes-to-okido-4-tastebuddies

Enjoy!

Lolly's van

Zoom vs Truck in 2

Cinematography / Education

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Zoom vs Truck in

Sorry for the lack of posts but I am addicted to internet and Social websites so the last remedy I found to be more productive is to cut off my internet connection. I do post some WIPs on Twitter once in a while though.

Right, since I am doing a lot of research in Storyboarding and Layout those days, I have decided to add a new Cinematography tag to my blog and “Zoom” vs “Truck-in” will be my first post.

“Zoom vs Truck-In” is something I have had to deal with a lot lately and I found a great example in the first iteration of Kung Fu Panda and the awesome bridge sequence. It is not very often that you find the two concepts applied on two consecutive shots but they did it, starting with a Truck-in and followed by a dramatic Zoom on Tai Lung

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/47750317[/vimeo]