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Animated title sequence for Liam Treacy’s short film “Date Night.”

For more details on Liam’s film, see the Tumblr site here.

Rust 3D are a company based in Manchester who specialise in high quality CGI’s and animations for the building and construction sector. They are currently working on a large scale development called Liverpool Waters which, when completed, will see a 60 hectare area of  historic dockland transformed  to create a world-class, high-quality, mixed use waterfront quarter in central Liverpool.

I produced 30 very detailed storyboards for Rust 3D,  for their clients approval,  of an animated walk-through of the development. The storyboards needed to be architecturally accurate, featuring dozens of the proposed structures and also populated by characters and figures to breathe life into the scenes. Here are just 6 of the 30 frames produced.

Interesting references:

Rust 3D website:  http://www.3d.rustdesign.co.uk/content/home.php

Keep track of the Liverpool Waters development here: http://www.liverpoolwaters.co.uk/content/home.php

Concentration. Effort. Focus. One day, Myiagi-San. One day. It’s just a matter of time…..

An animated short by Ant Mercer.

Contains one bad word – repeated a few times

Sound effects from Freesound.
Drawn, animated, acted, scored etc. by Ant Mercer.

Have a look at merkerwork.blogspot.com for a (sort of) making of blog post.

Example of some storyboarding done as part of pre-production for a ‘vicious comedy’ to be filmed in 2011.

Tools: Pencil, Paper and photoshop.

Written by Giovanni Spinella,  work for the Comic Creators Guild

Quick gag written by Andrew Mercer, and illustrated by me. Featured in “Gin Palace” Anthology published by Rob Jackson.

Tags say it all:  Surreal, noir, work, dog, barking, creepy.

Filmed in an afternoon, by @Adam_Y (http://thesecretsurface.co.uk/) and me.

Animated titles (here) will be spliced in at some point.