Blend Opening Titles 2019
Gunner
Credits
Directed Gunner
Original Score & Sound Design Ambrose Yu
Design & Illustration Marcus Bakke Ian Sigmon Rachel Reid Andy Most James Noellert
Conceptual Illustration Slawek Fedorczuk James Noellert Marcus Bakke
2D Animation Ian Sigmon Nick Parente Dan Stack Evan Kempinski
Title Animation Jordan Scott
Cel Animation Rachel Reid Andy Most Marcus Bakke
3D Animation Doug Alberts Marcus Bakke Nick Forshee John Hughes Collin Leix Handel Eugene Nick Parente
3D Rigging Chris Nelder Nick Forshee Marcus Bakke Handel Eugene
3D Character Animation Rachel Reid Doug Ablerts John Hughes Marcus Bakke Nick Forshee Handel Eugene
3D modeling Marcus Bakke Nick Forshee Billy Chitkin Handel Eugene Maritza Louis
VR Modeling Collin Leix Marcus Bakke Nick Forshee
Compositing Ian Sigmon John Hughes Collin Leix Marcus Bakke Nick Forshee Andy Most
Render Wrangler Todd Hersey
Produced By Brandon Delis
CHARACTER ANIMATION
For the Blend Titles, I was responsible for animating the “Blend Monster”. He’s a pretty quirky character from his shape alone, so I did a few tests early in production to get a feel for the rig. He was animated on 15fps.
FACE ANIMATION
The rig did not come with a face! The animation was exported to C4D where a fellow animator, John Hughes, mapped on his face. I animated his face by hand as reference for John to animate in C4D.
ANIMATIC
I was also apart of the ideation process. Here are a few sequences I animated for the animatic. Really happy that some of these ideas made it into the final edit.
SKETCHES
Thanks for looking!