Thursday, June 14, 2007

More Puss Less Boots

I've posted a couple more Puss N Boots shots in the animation area. The spot for Nickelodeon with Puss hacking and weezing was a lot of fun. The spot was three shots, totaling 15 seconds, however Nickelodeon decided that the spot needed to be 5 seconds...sigh...so the animation was severely edited in the final spot....tears..

5 comments:

Dave Johnson said...

Must have been so awesome to get to animate a character that you enjoy so much. Did you get to use the actual rigs from DW, or did you use ones made especially for the spots?

RayChase said...

Hey Dave-

No the rigs that DW uses are proprietary..these were Maya versions that were rigged up at overseas studio that DW has used in the past..

The rigs were pretty good, but the faces were a little tough and didn't have all the detail controls...ie lids could only open and close...no shaping...

Still fun to work with though...

pjleffelman said...

Lookin good Ray :)

How was it animating to a foreign language?

RayChase said...

Thanks PJ! It was a little tricky animating to the spanish..a short word in english can be 4 times as long in spanish..crazy...thank god for Ernesto..THANK GOD!

Alex Fleisig said...

you should thank ernesto's mom and dad as well.