Castlevania Season 2 will be on Netflix on 10/26, just two days away! It’s also my birthday today so here’s a present from me to you: Castlevania Season 2 poster art! Hope you like the new season!!
The FULL OFFICIAL TRAILER for Castlevania Season 2 is up!! 8 episodes coming October 26th! I hope you all like it, we’re giving it OUR ALL!!
My rough animation for Boruto #65
A good portion of the animation I did for Netflix’s Castlevania was FX based. Much of this was done in the ‘11th hour’ and was animated clean, then exported directly into after fx.
This is probably the most extensive FX animation I’ve done for a project to date, and I learned a lot in the process.
Here’s my animation for the opening credits of Castlevania without the bells and whistles of compositing.
Not only did I get to develop the style for this part, but it’s the only piece of animation in the show where my original drawings aired without any sort of clean up.
Out of everything I did for the first season of Castlevania, this was the part I had the most control over.
Happy (slightly belated) Birthday, Castlevania! (Hopefully it’s still the 26th somewhere in the world…?)
Castlevania turned 31!
I finally got clearance to show my rough animation from Castlevania! I did a lot of animation for this show so I’m going to release these through several posts each week, starting with this one.
For the Alucard vs Trevor sequence there wasn’t enough time in the schedule for me to finish out the animation, so I completed a first pass and the drawings were sent over to Korea for the artists at MUA Film to to tie down.
Some fantastic work by my friend Spencer Wan. The sheer amount of animation he produced for the show is staggering, not to mention the high quality of it all!
Here’s a rad piece I directed, and did a bit of animation for. Thanks to Wieden+Kennedy for the opportunity. Props to Ryan Cullen, Robby Cook, Tyler Richlen, Jeff Freeman, Louis Norris, CJ Walker, Chris Beaver, Aubrey Archer, Victoria Grace Elliott and Lindsey Leigh Robins for all their hard work! We’ve done enough work for Old Spice campaigns that I now buy the products. I’m not sure that’s how advertising is supposed to work…
Another question if You use flash how do you get the brush to work for you because it's just a struggle using the pencil tool?
I use the second to smallest brush size and keep my smoothing at 30. This won’t make a clean line, but it’ll keep flash from ‘interpreting’ your line as much.
What do you use to animate?
I’ve proficient in both Adobe Animate(Flash) and ToonBoom Harmony. My primary program is Adobe Animate, and is the one I have been using to animate my film My Dad the Giant.
Castlevania is officially up on Netflix!! I hope everyone enjoys this first run of episodes! There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and tears poured in to it!
Putting the cast in Castlevania.
There are too many terrific contributors to this series, not the least of whom are these wonderful, freshly-announced actors:
Graham McTavish is Dracula Richard Armitage is Trevor Belmont James Callis is Alucard Alejandra Reynoso is Sypha Belnades Emily Swallow is Lisa Matt Frewer is The Bishop Tony Amendola is The Elder
Castelvania premieres on Netflix next Friday, 7/7/17.
Happy to announce we’re doing a screening of Castlevania at RTX on 7/7 with a Q&A panel afterwards featuring me and my main creative crew on this from Powerhouse Animation: Assistant Director @adamdeats, and Animation Director @spencerwan along with fellas from Frederator!
Come one, come all to what will likely be an exceptional panel about an exceptional series with my exceptional coworkers!
This July 7th at RTX, Castlevania will be screening and will be followed by a Q&A panel to which my co-workers and directors Sam Deats, Adam Deats, and Spencer Wan will be speaking. Make sure to check it out!
CASTLEVANIA NETFLIX SERIES TEASER TRAILER RELEASED!
I’m EXTREMELY proud to announce that I am the Director of the Castlevania Netflix series, coming July 7th! Me and the gang at Powerhouse Animation Studios have been hard at work bringing one of our favorite game franchises to life in this animated series. It’s a labor of love for all that are involved and we can’t wait for everyone to get to check it out!
Huge thank you to Assistant Director @adamdeats, Animation Director @spencerwan, and Lead Background Designer Robby Johnson for their massive contributions to the show!
I’m very proud to announce that I animated on this Castlevania Netflix series, coming July 7th! Super proud of everyone of my coworkers at Powerhouse Animation Studios for helping make this a reality!
You've probably already answered this question before 😅 but what college do you go to?
I’m an alumni of College For Creative Studies in Detroit!
CCS, represent!
After all this time Shot 35 is finally animated!
This marks the top of the hump for the films production, and ostensibly we are over it! Not only do the combined shots 31-35 amount to a whopping 57 second long tracking shot, but Shot 35 in and of itself is 24 seconds long. Add to this the complex physics, acting, and all manner of FX, and you have yourself a small mountain of work to tackle. But it is tackled!
Next up 36 and 37 will conclude the tracking shot and help transition us all into the next phase of the film, animating it’s climax.
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