Yeah... is your bro Nick *enway... editor at Disney... He left not long after I started... back in 2001.
We are twins but were about as similar as (but not to) the eddie murphy brothers in Bowfinger. I'd be the one who has to cross traffic.
Yeah that's right, he went to the states to work on the tinkerbell thing, now is working on "9" with Shane *cker and Ryan.
I sent you a pm btw, I would love to visit the croydon crib.
That's some pretty sweet animation, I like the lighting effects, makes it look really pro (lighting always helps for that kinda thing). I love the lip sync animation, the mouths are really cool.
The lighting effects were all created in After Effects. Most shots had 1 main ambient light and then each character would have 2-3 individual spot lights.
The Dialogue is all point motion. We tend not to use switch layers cause its not that much more effort to animate the points... You just need to control the 'inbetweens' manually otherwise the animation will look 'swimmy' The Dial was the very last thing we did... we were pushed for time at that stage...so its not perfect but we are happy with it.
ps... checked out your site ... I like your styles!
