Monday, August 10, 2009



This is the newest music video that I animated for a talented Canadian artist named 'LIGHTS'.
I was graciously asked again to work with the same director that I worked with on the Meaghan Smith music videos; Roberto Schoberto. With his great eye for direction and colour we were able to pull this video together in an EXTREMELY short amount of time. I was also assisted by my good friend Dharmali Patel in finishing off some of the animation.

After we finally got the concept designs approved by Lights' management and Warner bros. music, we banged out the animation as quick as possible.

All the animation was done in Flash, and some still images done in Photoshop with animated elements over top (eg - still image of her face with animated hair). Roberto did all of the AMAZING backgrounds and all of the final compositing in After Effects.

All in all, it turned out great... but with just a couple more days for production, we could have made it amazing... but isn't that always the case?

29 comments:

  1. Nice work! It amazing what you can pull off under tight deadlines. No dilly dallying over small stuff, just gut decisions and then action.

    Love the little beasties running around.

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  2. sweet! turned out nice


    Have to love those under the gun gigs and when they turn out well even better

    Congrats !!

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  3. How adorable was that! Good solutions for tight deadlines. Very tight! Awesome job!

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  4. Not enough time...always the case. But this turned out amazing - Congrats - that animation was outstanding!

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  5. Awesome work here! Even more awesome that you managed to pull it together into something so polished in such a short time! Amazing!

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  6. Wow, looks awesome, Rawls! Can't tell there was a quick deadline at all. ;)

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  7. I really enjoyed the push and spin off the rock. Really well animated.

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  8. great job , looks nice . deadlines are our worst enemy !!!

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  9. Very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Comgrats Darren.

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  10. thats awesome, way to go on the deadline and crunch.

    nicely done.

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  11. Thanks very much my friends! Hooray for deadlines!!

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  12. some nice scenes and great posing in there!

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  13. Very nice work. I like the tumble turn, very cool!

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  14. Yo mate!

    Good job well done! Hey I aint been by in ages - I got a lot of catching up to do. Cheers for still coming by my blog haha. Ill be dusting it off for good :)

    Ken :D

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  15. What can I say...Sick,tight,dope!!!
    Your drawings are sweeet meng.

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  16. Waow.....Really good works on this blog...

    I'm curious about sendack in cinema...

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  17. ho ho ho . Really a very good work my canadian friend!!!!!

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  18. Wow man this is some kick ass animation. Congrats!

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  19. Looks like you pulled it off- nice one!

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  20. Sweet looking animation, cheers!

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  21. Incredible work Darren! Gotta love those tight deadlines.

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  22. Hey great work Rawls! Thanks for stopping by my blog.

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  23. wooooo coooool!

    very nice works!

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  24. Thanks everyone!!! You all rock!

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