Compositing Bananza

Hello! I'm the Assistant Director on Netflix's Castlevania. Here's where I'll talk about the animation related things I do, like direction, compositing, and 2D FX animation. 

[miralyk]

the ultimate tag team!!

[miralyk]

With all this super good smash art may I ask who you think you're gonna play/main

my bias is clearly showing

i really don’t play Competitively for ssb and mainly just play characters i like or think are interesting, and these two are my favs rn!!

[spencerwan]

Here’s my rough animation for cyclops sequence from Castlevania. I got to storyboard this sequence as well, which was a first for me. Up until then I’d never had that level of control over anything I’d worked on in the animation industry. 

Out of everything I did for season one, this is by far what I worked the hardest on. I’m glad I’m finally getting to show it.

[spencerwan]

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.

[spencerwan]

Here’s another round of my rough animation for Castlevania. I animated most of these during the revision process to help along scenes we wanted a little more impact from. Since they were scattered throughout the episodes, I thought I’d do a side by side so you can see how the roughs got translated into the final product.

Next week I’ll post the sequence where the majority of my animation effort went. I hope you’ll look forward to it.

[samueldeats]

More beautiful work from Spencer Wan for Castlevania! A nice peek at the work we put in to the revision stage of production. ^_^

It’s worth noting the compositing you see in these shots and the rest of the show was directed by Assistant Director @adamdeats! He did tremendous work with the Powerhouse Animation team lighting, coloring, and adding effects and particles to give the show its final polish.

[myfavoritedemons]

these behind the scene pictures from castlevania’s animation studio are fucking incredible

[samueldeats]

Hahaha…haha…haha….oh God these got out…..

[samueldeats]

2D Background / Layout Artist at Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc.

Job listing

Powerhouse Animation Studios is looking for Background/Layout artists at our Austin, TX location for stuff like the BGs in our Castlevania show! If you or someone you know might be interested, please hit us up!

[kvover]

Castlevania is so GOOD :3

[adamdeats]

This is so rad.

[ricechristytreet]

James Callis is a gift.

[kayjaydraws]

I love this jerk 

[yoriel-wiz]

Gotta have that bow, man. 

[doubleleaf]

Richard Armitage’s voice is oh my god

[yoriel-wiz]

“Oh don’t mind me. Just admiring your boots. From one Trevor to another.”

[adamdeats]

I love this.

[crissaegrim-deactivated20250907]

Lisa arrives at Dracula’s Castle…… NETFLIX CASTLEVANIA PREVIEW

[frederator-studios]

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.

[samueldeats]

CASTLEVANIA Ani-Mania -- Rooster Teeth Animation Fest @ RTX 2017

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!

[kariya077]

悪魔城ドラキュラ月下の夜想曲20周年おめでとうございます！

Congratulations for 20th Anniversary of Castlevania:Symphony of the Night!