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Rough Animatic, Story, Production Sheets, Finalizing Concepts.
Completed the layout of the story. We decided we are going to make it work without voice-over. We also changed the story to have more of...
Justin Drake
Oct 3, 20231 min read
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Storyboards and Storyboards and Storyboards
I had no idea how hard it was going to be to plan everything out into a sequence. There has been a lot of back and forth writing the...
Justin Drake
Oct 3, 20231 min read
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Organizing and creating a mood board
I asked my team over Tuesday to pick out two songs they would want as backing tracks for the short and listened through them. I also...
Justin Drake
Sep 27, 20231 min read
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Experimenting with Pika Labs to turn concept art into pre-vis
Concept art made by me using Photoshop. Mostly photocollage and painting with some use of the generative fill tool in photoshop. Car...
Justin Drake
Sep 24, 20231 min read
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Justin Drake
Sep 23, 20230 min read
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Moving into Houdini
Today I started to play around with scene layouts and compositions in Houdini. None of the camera angles are set in stone, but sometimes...
Justin Drake
Sep 19, 20231 min read
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Animatic
Today I went ahead and drew the script into a short animatic.
Justin Drake
Sep 17, 20231 min read
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Justin Drake
Sep 14, 20230 min read
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Gathering Inspiration and Planning Ahead
Today I created a mood board for a potential studio project at SCAD. I also did a bit of research into how I could increase the speed and...
Justin Drake
Sep 12, 20231 min read
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Something Interesting! - The Conquest of Space
Here is a book I found at a used bookstore about two years back. The Conquest of Space by Willy Ley with paintings by Chelsey Bonestell...
Justin Drake
Sep 11, 20231 min read
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Sept. 10, 2023 - Wrapping up America's Consequence VFX
America's Consequence has been such a fun project with a lot of unique challenges. It has definitely been a great exercise in screen...
Justin Drake
Sep 10, 20231 min read
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