Animatic - Steve the Super Hero

A little rough in spots, and includes some tests for things that never made it into the final video.

STEVE THE SUPER HERO – Storyboards

As promised …more from the process.

Originally, I had Eric (the singer) as a floating head. I thought this would have been pretty funny. Also, creating walk cycles for a floating head is incredibly easy. I always throw this idea in mix when discussing a project with a new client - telling them it looks “magical …you know like Harry Potter”. However, the consensus was to give Eric a body. 

Steve the Super Hero - music video

Just adding STEVE THE SUPER HERO to the blog. Also, here is a link to the post on JERRY BECK's & AMID AMIDI's Cartoon brew. HERE.

Music by Eric Herman
 

More from STEVE THE SUPER HERO

This is another image from the STEVE THE SUPER HERO music video. I kept putting off animating this shot because I wasn’t completely sure what I wanted these BAD GUYS to be doing. I had a lot of elaborate ideas, but they were all too time consuming and I was beginning to run out of time for working on the video.

Then along comes the film, DREAMGIRLS. I had never seen it before - but when I saw this sequence I thought “Hey! That’s what I need for the BAD GUYS”, – so I created a simple cycle for the BAD GUYS, trying to give them a little bit of “Dreamgirls” mixed with a little “HEY! SOMETHING REALLY STINKS!” … So this is what I came up with….

This is a pencil test from the shot.