Digital Dogfood!

Posted by jeremygalante on October 4, 2010 · 1 Comment 

Bill Plympton’s Guard Dog Global Jam is well underway, and I’ve been granted the tremendous privilege/pressure of animating the opening shot.  The Global Jam is based off of Bill’s award winning short, “Guard Dog”, and is a collaborative effort to reanimate the film, shot by shot.  All 70 shots have been divvied out to 70 animators from around the world.  Everybody is free to re-animate the shot in any way they choose, maintaining the original soundtrack, resulting in a diverse mashup of styles. I viewed this as a great opportunity to try something new, considering we each have three months to animate just a few seconds.  So rather than do my usual After Effects/Flash hybrid approach, I’m giving the Photoshop animation feature a shot and attempting to simulate a stop-motion animated mosaic of scanned bits of dog food.  Here’s a still of what I have in mind.  Should be interesting!

Shot #1, Guard Dog Global Jam

Cartoon Brew has some commentary on the project, or check it out directly to the Plymptoons source.

Here’s a clip of the original film, including the shot I’ve been assigned to.

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