Trash Taste Opening

Trash Taste Animated is a fan animated project dedicated to creating a fun opening sequence for the Anime podcast "Trash Taste"

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Animation Breakdown - Pan Shot

Have a look at our massive pan shot, featuring various items and icons from Japan as well as some landmarks! This shot required a mix of 2D hand drawn animation, motion animation, visual effects and a lot of different assets.  

This is how we went from animatic to finished! Feel free to follow us on Twitter to get updates as well!

Assets Designed by: Liz Composited by: Cat Props Designed and Animated by: Cat and Liz 

Animatic -> Base background elements -> Simple moving elements -> Animated Props -> Final Composite

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Animation Breakdown - Studio Room

Process for our animation of the Studio room! Take a sneak peak look into how we go from each stage of the animation.

This is how we went from animatic to finished! Feel free to follow us on Twitter to get updates as well!

Animated and composited by: Cat

Roughs -> Clean Lines -> Base Colour -> Final Composite

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Animation Breakdown - Garnt’s Room

Process for our animation of Garnt’s room! Take a sneak peak look into how we go from each stage of the animation.

This is how we went from animatic to finished! Feel free to follow us on Twitter to get updates as well!

Animated and composited by: Cat

Roughs -> Clean Lines -> Base Colour -> Final Composite

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Animation Breakdown - Joey’s Room

Process for our animation of Joey’s room! Take a sneak peak look into how we go from each stage of the animation.

This is how we went from animatic to finished! Feel free to follow us on Twitter to get updates as well!

Animated by: Liz

Composited by: Cat

Roughs -> Clean Lines -> Base Colour -> Final Composite

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Animation Breakdown - Connor’s Room 

Process for our animation of Connor’s room! Take a sneak peak look into how we go from each stage of the animation.

This is how we went from animatic to finished! Feel free to follow us on Twitter to get updates as well!

Animated and composited by: Cat

Roughs -> Clean Lines -> Base Colour -> Final Composite

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Production Update - Screen Shot

Here’s a breakdown of the screen shot in the opening sequence. It was a challenge working with dynamic perspective and motion.

Animated and composited by: Cat

Roughs -> Clean Lines -> Base Colour -> Final Composite

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Production Update -Interactive Exploration

As part of the project, we were to design some interactive motion elements. We decided to create 3x twitter/ instagram posts to support our animation. Here are the initial planning sketches for how these interactives would be animated.

Designed by: Cat

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Production Update - Motion Prop Animation

Take a look at some of the animated props we’ll be using in the animation. Featuring a variety of Japanese iconography and items. These were the motion animated props.

Props designed by: Cat and Liz

Animated by: Cat

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Production Update - Handdrawn Prop Animation

Take a look at some of the animated props we’ll be using in the animation. Featuring a variety of Japanese iconography and items. These were the hand drawn animated props. 

Props designed and animated by: Cat

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Production Update - Bike Shot 

Take a look at the breakdown of one of the shots in the opening sequence. To capture the bouncy movement for Connor’s entrance, we initially did a ball bounce which we based his movements on.

Following that, each of the separate limbs, hair and bike were added in so that any secondary action we wanted could be added. Each of the bikes were also given a path to follow to make it easier during the animation phase. In the final composit of the shot, screen tone, lighting, shadows and background elements were added.

Animated by: Liz

Composited by: Cat

Roughs -> Clean Lines -> Base Colour -> Final Composite

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Animation Breakdown - Emoji Shot 

Here is a breakdown of the emojis features in our animation sequence! Take a look at all three of them going from lineart to coloured!

Designed and animated by: Cat

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Animation Breakdown - Ramune Bottle Shot🍾

Process for our Ramune Bottle Spin shot! Here’s a sneak peek of the finished animation.   This is how we went from animatic to finished! Feel free to follow us on Twitter to get updates as well!

Animated by: Liz

Composited by: Cat

Roughs -> Clean Lines -> Base Colour -> Final Composite

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Production Update - Poster Exploration

As part of the project, we were to design a poster. Take a look at the early development and exploration for our various poster compositions.  Exploration by: Liz and Cat

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Production Update - Animation Shot 🍾

Take a look at the progress of one of the shots in the opening sequence featuring a ramune bottle! This shot included a mixed media approach. This approach was selected as the ramune bottle was quite intricate and having a reference was overall thought to be for both the easiest and the best result.    

We started by first gathering some live footage of a ramune bottle and recording a video to get a better understanding of the type of movement we’d like for this shot. Following that, a 3D model was animated to replicate that. A camera zoom was then added for effect. 

In the 2D animation stage, the bottle was first retoscoped and then adjustments were made. The frame rate was switched to be on 2s, then frames were further exaggerated through angle changes. 

Animated by: Liz

Composited by: Cat

Roughs -> Clean Lines -> Base Colour -> Final Composite

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Booklet Mockups and Online Interactive 

As part of our project, we compiled all our pre-production work into a lil’ booklet. The booklet is intended for to be printed as a physical square book. The booklet has also been uploaded to be viewed online digitally for anyone who is interested! 🤩  

>> View the Digital interactive HERE

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Logo and Character Typography

For the logo, we explored various font types. We aimed for something with both a balance of simplicity and character. The final font types selected were Shrimp and Kozuka Gothic.

To introduce the characters, we’d be featuring a unique individual type for each host. We wanted the type for each of the hosts to be representative of each of them. 

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet

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Room Background Style Frames

Take a look at their rooms! Throughout the animation, each of the hosts’ will be featured with their own rooms! Whilst their rooms aren’t the same as their actual rooms, we wanted to instead reference their interests or topics they like to talk about through individual props and items.

These rooms are rough style frames to help us gain an understanding of what the final finish may look like. Please note that these are still subject to change.

Can you pick up on the unique items of each of the hosts? 👀

🍙 What is Trash Taste Animated?

Trash Taste Animated is an animation project which aims to create a 30 sec opening animation for the Anime podcast Trash Taste.

Follow the blog to see our progress throughout this project!

What is Trash Taste? ||  About Us || Pre-Production || Concept Booklet