Effects Breakdown Death of a Flea

Here is a shot I comped on our Short film, Small Sacrifices.

The stop motion footage was shot on a motion control rig using the kuper system. Phil Created the Matte Paints in Photoshop. I then camera mapped them onto 3d geometry in Maya. The snow particles, I made in Maya. Their individual shapes are textures I scanned from little clumps of baking soda, which are randomly assigned to each particle. The rest of the compositing was done in After Effects. The fog was shot practically, in HD, the blue channel had to be removed, because it was noisy garbage. I then used the fog as a matte on a greyish blue solid so the fog could have a more even hue. We dropped a piece of black clay into the fog to have it react.

Here's a labeled version in case any of that was confusing.

In other news, Neil's posted some trailers of Small Sacrifices that can be see here.

And the Film's website will be up soon!

Where Have I Been?

It's almost been a year since my last post on here. I am back and hopefully will be posting new things. I've been working on a project with Neil Baker called small sacrifices. It's pretty much what you get when a louse and a team of flea sherpas climb a snow covered mountain. check out the blog here.

http://smallsacrificesproject.blogspot.com/

There is talk of a new .com site for small sacrifices coming soon

Stay tuned for more animation.

Master of Puppets

Watching TCM's Akira Kurosawa 100 birthday marathon, I saw an ad for this



click on the image to see what i'll be doing the 26th.

Jippidy

I shot my first video for Jippidy, this new company I've been working for. We had a party at Pisco, this lounge in SF. I filmed the festivities and made this ad for Jippidy's website. You can watch the Video I made here.

Twisted Metal

The Birth of the armature. This is a wire Armature that is going to remain naked for most of the film. So I'm trying to keep him looking simple.



Twisting Wire.



Finished body



Setting epoxy in small paper molds.



completed.



I need to try to shave down the epoxy and try to get rid of the paper. Besides that he's ready for movement!

2-Ton Crystal Clear

I just bought a whole lot of epoxy earlier today. And have spent the rest of the day tuning up my armature. It appears he has week feet.

This looks like a job for the "Job Box".




Clay is now getting replacement feet. I added metal washers to the base for extra structural support.


So when it comes time to animate Clay, he will have a leg to stand on.



I'm calling him Clay because he's made of clay.

Hot Damn! a New Blog!

So after ranting about google's account policies and hashing together a biting summary of my old blog I found out you can import an old blog into a new one. So all of this seems a little out of context.

So instead I can talk about the new. Yes a new blog because of my new email.

I've got dozens of baby pictures from my next project's development. And there's Neil's new epic film. There's a lot of new things I'm excited about.

Makes me happy!

Tonights Going to be Awesome!

Tonight is the night of the SF International Animation Festival! it will also be the premiere of the Dandy Warhols' Welcome to the Third World music video. It will be shown as part of the Play it by Eye show. Myself as well as a hand full of other De Anza students have animated footage in the video. Webster Colcord was the director on this project and the one who got me some work on the video. I'm really excited to be able to seem my work on the big screen!

If you're interested seeing the show, here's some helpful nuggets of info.

When: November 14, 2008, 10:15 pm,
Where: Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema

You can still purchase tickets online here

have a listen to welcome to the third world right now





I stole this Image from Jenny's Live journal

Tonight's going to be awesome!

And now you are here

If you are a fancy bitch, please enjoy my fresh new blog. Enjoy the clean blank page and ponder existance for as long as you are here. These spaces will fill up soon enough.



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If you are not a fancy bitch, let me introduce myself.

My name is Keenan Manely. I am an Animation and film student finishing up at De Anza. I am in Pre production of a short film as a requirement for graduation.( more on that to come) I like short walks on the beach and staring at the sun at night.

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