Apr
18
2008
Jenkins DVD Project For Primal Screen
Ward Jenkins, a director at commercial animation studio LAIKA/house, created the character animation for Primal Screen’s show reel back in 2006. Jenkins, who runs a popular animation blog, animated the characters traditionally and then scanned the drawings into Flash. Joe Kubesheski then cleaned up his work in the software and created the final sequences below.
Tags: Primal Screen, Ward Jenkins
April 18th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Great animation, do you know what did he use for the cleaning? it doesn´t look pencil at all.
Very smooth.
April 18th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
WOW. I love the way the transitions happened . this feels so deep. Awesome Job, Ward!
April 18th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
awesome. That was one the greatest little bits of animation I’ve ever seen. really. It was so clean and creative. The characters really pulled me in with their unique looks.
April 19th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Hey guys, thanks for nice comments! And thanks, Aaron, for the mention. I haven’t even written anything up on my blog yet!
joulimousis: I animated the characters with pencil and paper, had them scanned into Photoshop and created a movie sequence in After Effects. Each transistion/cycle had its own QT movie, and each movie was then brought into Flash. Joe then traced over my pencils, frame by frame, with a few modifications here and there.
It should be noted that head designer Rick Newcomb was the art director on this project and did all the other environments, motions and effects in After Effects. Stephen Mank did the über-cool music and sound effects.
April 20th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Hi Ward:
very nice animation!
I wonder why you choose to draw your rough in pencil instead of in flash directly? is it because you like the feeling of pencil line?
April 21st, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Holy crap this is awesome!!!
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:22 am
Ernest: absolutely! Although, now that I have a Cintiq at my new job, I might be persuaded to try out drawing in Flash.
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:29 am
Thanks for posting this gem. I’m a big Ward fan and this is a great sample of his talent for character design and animation. I also love the use of color and other details like the sound effects.