Rodrigo Sousa posts
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Some Playground references
Here are some references I gathered for the original trailer, on the left side are the design references in the right side the color references and in the middle my rough thumbnails. I also added some screenshots of my miro board I have been preparing ever since I finished the trailer, it has a huge amount of reference...
Playground colorscript
Here is the initial colorscript for the playground trailer, you can see that colors changed quite a bit with the final trailer.
Flocon wip animation
Just finished a small one month job and I have a bit of time inbetween projects to animate on this small project Im doing with Antoine Carré!I am trying to animate based on Antoine's layout and then going in in straight ahead, quite fun to do ! (Pond 5 is quite helpful to have some video reference of birds and wha...
Flocon Update
Little update on this animation I'm doing in between projects!
Animation update
Hi all ! Here is a new animation update. I have been working on this short film with Antoine Carré https://www.instagram.com/antcarre/inbetween projects. The project I'm working on is under NDA so most of what I have been doing I can't really show yet... But it has been mainly writing for this short film I wil...
Flocon animation 01
Here are some updates on the animation!
Flocon Animation Wip 01
Here are some shots I'm working on at the moment for a small project I'm co-directing with Antoine Carré. Check out more on my other patreon posts or on my discord!
Flocon 2
Here is a second shot I worked on for our project "Flocon" codirected by Antoine Carré and me.PS : Added text to each of the images, to explain each step.
Flocon 1
Hi all! In this beggining of year I have been waiting for the greenlight of a secet project. While I wait, I have been working on a little film with my talented friend Antoine Carré. I will be sharing the process behind different shots I worked on.PS(i tested this new kind of post because the normal one wasn't wor...
UNCANNY ALLEY EP01- MAKING OF
Hi all ! Have been doing a full making of video for each of the Uncanny Alley shorts I did for Adult Swim Smalls, I will be posting the next ones soon!
Making of
Last post I did I showed you this rough animation, I have been busy working on a 30 sequence and wanted to share this shot making of with you.Here is the first rough animationI used it as a base for the tiedownHere is the final tiedown based on the rough, I refined and added detailsHere I started the clean pass, it fli...
Uncanny Alley- Shot making of
Hi all! Here is a shot breakdown from episode 2 of uncanny alley! And some news at the end...This shot was one of the longest to do from the series of shorts, it's quite long and fully animated.The main tricks I used to speed up the animation process as much as possible was using 3d models and using live footage fo...
UCANNY ALLEY- Procreate 01
A timelapse of one of the subliminal shots of episode two of Uncanny Alley ( you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziaAixpypAM)) Was so much fun to this backgrounds just in black and white!
Playground- Procreate 01
Here is a concept art I did for my playground pitch...I did a lot of concept arts and all of the backgrounds for Uncanny Alley on procreate so I will be sharing some of them!Let me know what you think and if you have any questions!
Update on Hacker situation!
Hi all! As some of you might have heard or noticed, my youtube account got deleted.This is due to it being highjacked by a hacker, during 1 day it became a cryptomoney youtube account. And after multiple reports it got deleted. This all started with a hack in all my google accounts that blocked me from accessing my gma...
Uncanny Alley- WIP3
Here is another shot breakdown.Here is a first animatic, in this version the shot ended wihout the character entering the frame.This shot is greatly inspired from an image I took from a trip in scotland, I wanted to get an ambiance similiar to it.Here is the photo reference I used for the shot. This shot is a big part ...
Uncanny Alley- WIP 2
Another breakdown of a shot of Uncanny Alley Episode 01 .Here are some initial drawings for the "maggot man" Here is a final design in color before the decision to make the shorts in black and white. His design was made with two components in mind. First he had to look like a bloated human, and from his skin ma...
Uncanny Alley- WIP
Here is a breakdown of two shots of episode 01 of "Uncanny Alley"Here is the animatic version, this drawings were made on my sketchbook to have a overall vision of the episode. Here It's more about timing and shot transition that making nice drawings.Here is the rough/ tiedown pass. The first shot I used ro...
Uncanny Alley- Animatic 02
Here is a post to share the animatic of episode 2 of Uncanny Alley.Firstly I wanted to share some questions for the "its nice that" article https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/rodrigo-sousa-uncanny-alley-adult-swim-animation-project-190624:1. What inspired the tryptic of animated shorts?The ideas for this seri...
Uncanny Alley- Animatic 01
Hi all!I want to share the final animatic I did for episode 01 of Uncanny alley. I was proposed by adult swim to do 3 short films for the "adult swim smalls " program. They gave me a lot of freedom to do whatever I wanted to explore and were interested in a horror focused series of shorts. After pitching and pr...
Adult swim - WIP some shots
Some shots I have been doing in the last few days. This are from my last short film.
Adult Swim Smalls- Nightmare scene
One more finished sequence for my upcoming Adult Swim smalls shorts, I am finishing 3 episodes of 2 minutes mid may, looking forward to show ytou the final result!
Adult swim smalls-Wip
Some more backgrounds for adult swim smalls!
Pepper grinder- Devolver Digital
Last year I worked on the art direction on a video game trailer for the upcoming Pepper grinder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwNEwDlfCfA , here are some drawings I did! I did some initial work on the project directed by CRCR ( collectiv of directors https://www.instagram.com/crcr_studio/ ), and storyboard by Jocelyn...
Adult Swim Smalls- Some animatic shots
Here are some some shots I rough animated !Looking forward to show you more!Thank you again for your support!!
Playground shot- Making of
Here is a breakdown of one of the shots from Playground.I will first do some rough drawings on my sketchbooks to find the framing idea for the shot. If it's a long shot I will do multiple drawings, in this case there is a complex camera movement so I did 4 sketches.Once I'm happy with them I will time the drawi...
