Here's a little gift to the audience of our most recent adult swim bumper! The months of hard work really paid of, as we've received an insane amount of positive feedback from all of you.
The ident was made by @thefox-i (director, sound design, rough animation), @cucuumiia (co-directior, backgrounds, clean-up, storyboards), and @cordwaner (co-director, producer, backgrounds, editing, compositing) and of course also Landolin Wirz who did the custom music for us! This was a collaboration between Adult Swim and our animation school HSLU :)
Fun facts about the behind the scenes under the cut!:
In the first draft Pim was supposed to draw a smile on Mona Charlie's face, however there was a concern that it could encourage people to vandalize paintings at art museums. To overcome that issue we really pushed the romantic aspect of the ident and changed it to Pim kissing Charlie instead - We did everything in our power to make it as cheesy as we possibly can and the final storyboard was approved as a result of those changes!
Pim went through a lot of redesigns until we settled for the final one, whereas Charlie was on point from the get-go. Here is the only piece of concept art I made of him:
While working on the animation, a classmate suggested adding a spit trail when Pim kisses Charlie. Later on a teacher walked in on us and saw the spit trail we animated and suggested we keep it and even showed us how to improve the spit trail animation.
When giving feedback, the same teacher encouraged us to make Pim appear to be even more in love with Charlie - to the point that he'd tell us to "give the people what they want!"
We're not the only Adult Swim bumper who's taken it a bit to the zesty direction- Soon you'll see a samurai Jack Adult Swim ident that's just as gay.
There were a lot of auditions for the voice acting from students of another school, however despite their talent they didn't quite hit the spot. We asked Adult Swim if we could use the original voice recordings of Zach Hadel, and they sent them to us! Hence the voice acting credit going to him. Did he see the ident? We're not sure. But we sure hope so.
Here's some color concepts I did, I mostly worked on painting the backgrounds, helped with directing and did all of the compositing, giving the ident the finished look!:
If you want to see more behind the scenes stuff look at @cucuumiia 's post as well!!
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In collaboration between our school
This is all I'd like to share for now. Thank you everyone!
I took my Master Shake figure to the beach to make some photos similar to that iconic one in the pool with his floatie.. and added a pinch of my own artistic freedom to it :D
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