Supporting Documents- 'Making Of' and Character Bible

Atom pancakes would like to share the documents supporting our animation, they feature the behind-the-scenes which helped us produce our final short.

Making of - The Final Chapter

If you like the character Arthur Winters, this document will explain how our studio decided upon the design and show some of the early stage drawings of him .

The Final Chapter - Character Bible

Enjoy!

Atom Pancakes proudly presents the latest poster for The Final Chapter!

With the hand in very close Atom Pancakes finally finished the full animated short. Those eighteen weeks of hard work, sweat and tears had paid off as The Final Chapter releases tonight for the audience to see. Stay tuned for the final animation.

Tweak....Tweak....Tweak....Render...Render....Render

The Christmas period has been filled with animation, texturing, critiques and rendering. Along with texturing updates and lighting adjustments here and there. We have all been pushing hard to try and get everything finished with plenty of time for post production and with a few things left to do post production should be going ahead within the next few days. Rendering has been taking a while, but thanks to Ethan's render layers it is looking great. We don't want to show too much in the way of finished work as we'd much rather show that within the Art Book and the final animation in under two weeks. But I thought I'd post some of these old pre visualisations showing some of the animation that I've completed and rendered. Most of these scenes have changed a great deal and include a number of extra camera shots, but hopefully give an insight into the process.

We will try and show some more updates over the next week, with developments in sound and post production coming soon.

Final Chapter- and the Murderer was....

More updates will land on here very soon! 

Keep Tuned!

P.S: Character pose by Ethan Shilling

Animation and rendering is going well at Atom pancakes, we almost done with all the scenes to animate however, is still a few bits to tweak.

Here are the scenes I (ruben) have been working on:

Tension Playblast Edit

After Credits Scene- Blocking

                                                              After Credits Scene- Final

Dream Detective- Blocking

Prepare Scene- Blocking

Also there is the idea butler scene which is not featured on here, but it is all animated. 

A bit more Animation

I'd like to update you with a quick look at another scene I've been animating. This is the scene in which our writer dreams up the idea that the chef could be the murderer. He is out of ideas, and rolling his pencil across the desk he has the thought that the chef was the murderer with the rolling pin. Again, this is still a work in progress but the idea is there. I like to work on a number of different scenes over time so I can go back to each scene with fresh eyes. The video below shows where the animation currently stands.

The character needs some extra life but hopefully the movement and thought process is there. Below you can see how I first set out the animation.

From this stage a lot of detail needs to be added. The setting of poses is fairly simple within animation, especially with good reference, however, the real life and character come from the attention to detail. How the character would move into a pose and hold himself is crucial to really bringing them to life.

Cigarette Smoke Dynamics Simulation Test v.1

Lately, I have been also testing some effects for our animation, after following a tutorial, i was able to play around and create cigarette smoke. Here is the test: