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