"Ice" is Robert Valley's animated vision of the short story written by Rich Larson which was produced by Passion-Pictures. Robs crew consists of a very small tight group of excellent artists and production staff. Just a really great bunch of people overall. Congrats to both Rob and Patricio on their Emmy Wins for this short.
Rob allocated the entire Bunk Sequence for me to animate. He supplies the animators with a tight layout drawing or two on average, and he also gives very clear direction of what he's looking for. This is a real blessing due to the tight scheduling that is happening more and more on these jobs. For the most part we have one pass at getting a shot acceptable, then its onto the next.
For those of you curious on Roberts workflow pipeline, Check out his "ICE behind the scenes"
This was the first shot I animated (below) and it was part of the Look Dev to develop an Ice texture. Andy McPherson did the other Look Dev shot. (Fletcher jumping up onto the top of the cleaning machine.) check out his Instagram. andymccollmcpherson
There were a few other shots I animated throughout here and there.
Shout out to Raymond Pang for the hand drawn FX animation and Martial Coulon for the blowing snow and machines. The pair of them are sorcerers. Also, the amazing group of animation assistants that tie down and fix the drawings to make them look beautiful.. Thank you.
