Friday, February 6, 2009

A Little Precision.

      In the interest of fairness, I must explain how this last image came about.
      I think everybody is aware that the making of animation feature films is a collaborative process. In the past ten years, the increasing use of Photoshop has allowed artists to share, re-use or transform elements of digital files and re-combine them to produce new images (much like digital  sampling in music). Amongst other advantages, this process makes it easier for a group of artists to work in a consistent style.
      This last image and the next few color images are the products of such process. I used bushes, trees and rock elements as well as special brushes for grass and flowers, created by the art department of 'Open Season'. I imported, scaled, placed and adjusted these various parts to fit my composition and added characters and lighting. 
      The artists who created most of the individual elements originally were Andy Harkness and Mike Humpfries. Other parts came from paintings by Mike Kurinsky, Jim Finn, Gerry LovelandDean Gordon or Will Weston.
     The characters were originally designed by Carter Goodrich.

Cheers.

2 comments:

Gerald Guerlais said...

D'ailleurs, il faudrait que quelqu'un parvienne à convaincre Carter Goodrich d'ouvrir un blog ou un site.
Et cas c'est fort noble de citer ses confrères !
Et c'est très beau toutes ces images aussi.

Luc Desmarchelier said...

Hey Gerald,
Merci de la visite.
Malheureusement, Carter semble mettre un point d'honneur à se garder des nouvelles technologies, donc ce n'est pas demain la veille qu'on verra un site a moins que quelqu'un d'autre ne s'en occupe.
Cheers.