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Smorgasbord Productions is a small animation house currently seeking projects. Our immediate staff includes a number of freelance animators, storyboard artists, inbetweeners, clean-up artists and colorists. We can currently be commissioned for small projects at very reasonable rates. Our focus is primarily traditional 2D cell animation. However, we do have the ability to work in 3D. Contact us if you would be interested like to see additional samples or a price quote on your project. |
- Mad Beanz! Flash Animation
Currently working on the Flash animation for the first Mad Beanz webisode for www.madbeanz.com. All the storyboards and principal test animation is complete. Most of the voice actors have been chosen. DKN is still searching for a few more key voices so it looks like auditions for voice actors will continue resume next week. Recording sessions will probably take place the end of the month. The only slight snag is that our Flash animator seems a bit tied up with several other projects at the moment. Could probably use some help. ANY FLASH ANIMATORS OUT THERE WANT TO HELP?? - Mad Beanz! Animated TV Pilot
The television pilot episode for the series has long been complete along with all the storyboards. I don't think we'll actually be making the episode though now that we are so busy with the flash animation webisodes. It's on the back burner now. - Animated Trailer
We spent the last month hard at work on a short animated policy trailer for movie theaters. It's going to be our demo piece for clients. It was the first time we put our hardware and software to the test of creating 2-D animation. We went through the entire process- from script to storyboards, to recording voice actors, to composing music, to rough animation, to clean-up animation, to cel painting, to final output. whew! It's a lot of work! But we can do it! And to prove it here is a very short clip:
- Contact: www.wolfcrown.com
- Spin Cycle Animated Credits
Smorgasbord's first real animation project was to animate the credit sequence for the short film Spin Cycle. It was a lot of fun and allowed us to be us to be really creative. The concept was to depict the protagonist, Joe, a frantic hapless guy, as he attempts to reach the girl of his dreams by phone. We depicted him in each of the emotions in his many failed attempts: Nervousness- sweating nervously before he makes the call, Anger-as he bangs his head against the wall repeated, and Despair- as he spins down an endless spiral. We designed him to appear as a rough sketch, thereby indicating that he was not refined as a person and still needed some work as a person. (See, we made it look a bit messy on purpose!) The animation turned out great! It really sets up the film nicely, especially since the film, although live action, has the animated slap-stick feel of a cartoon. David Kolodny-Nagy drew the animation by hand. Ted Purvis was the After Effects compositer and added additional effects to the animation. - insert SpinCycle animate pic here.
- Wolf Crown Animation division
(Samples of 3D animations will be posted here shortly.)
Wolf Crown Animation is a division of Smorgasbord that focuses on 3D animation and adult themed animation. The animation company was started in 1995 by a daring young comic book artist named Dustin McBeth. Mcbeth worked hard at learning the fundamentals of animation and branched quickly into 3D animation, learning Alias Wavefront software. His early 3D animation shorts are some of the best examples of the flexibility and options avaiable through 3D. Whether he busy programming the dense atmosphere of an alien world, a high-tech space ship or the detailed rim of a bean can, this animator is truly an inspiration to all at our small company. He continues to branch out further into animation and has expanded now into plastic molding. Of course, McBeth is still a comic book artist at heart and is never too busy to teach lessons to the young who seek the old glory of comics. Contact: www.wolfcrown.com