Hi, Welcome to see Michael Wah Animation Demo Reel 2011 - content from animatic, clay animation, 2D ~ 3D animation, and supervise work at Menfond (HK) for ads, movies and game graphic. . .
Movies I've done when working in Menfond, quite enjoy working on movie projects .
Coming Soon. Studio work at Menfond (movies, Ads), Belfry animation(Animated TV series, and Egg Kingdom(Feature Animation 2013 Feb) ..............
I always like to do "Pre-viz" first, for both Clients/Directors and our prodcution team, it allows every one to put their effort to the same goal. Pre-visual often give Client and their Agent an idea what their "concept" would work out at the early stage of project. And hopefully to save Company resource from revision over and over. Of course I couldn't say there won't be any revision(s) after the previsual version, Sure it'll be easier to have a closer confirmation on timing, layout, and editing for production team to start with : D.
Below shows some of my "studio work" of 2d flow, animatic, and more...
Cnice ad, 2D animatic done in After Effect. With Extra help from Creative Team's Artist provided coloured Storyboard materials, this is the most colour Animatic I've done for years.
Sun Flower Papa ad, from 2D animatic & motion graphic to shade mode animation and finish.
Opple ad, 2D animatic, Art work handled in Photoshop, then After Effect animate.
TW's Testing movie, Project named " Naji ", Animated with After Effect and some reference footage edit in too...
Pre-viz for ENTHIRAN - a Bollywood movie. India Director(s) and HK Action Director planned out fighting action sequence before the shootings, from script/screen play to storyboard, and Pre-viz shots.
Due to videos are Company's property, here just show part of storyboard and still shots of the Fire scene and Action on Train sequence.
HK movie, New Shaolin 新少林寺, the "Get away sequences - horse racing " in storyboard .
Bryan C. ( ex Menfond Animation Director, was my team head ) gave me the script and we planned the scenes, then to visualized out into storyboard before shooting start, our on site CG man discuss with Director, Cam man, Anyway .... maybe One day, I can get the original storyboard back .....
that's all for now, hope I will have time to show more soon...
Project " TaoBao Ant ", 4 short opening shots. Shot description is simple, "have the Ant Character do something to pop the bubbles to show title and end it." oh, okay, let's give some action to it."
1) Shop at Home.
2) Purchase at will
3) Delivery version A
3) Delivery version B
3) Delivery version C
4) Pay afterward
and a 5th ad, CG Ants will Deliver in shot to form a home. Before Production start, get the shot confirmed by drawing different solutions, as below shows a Taobao Ant character look in shot when it's in different scale proportions.
The Original Master copies of Character Facial expression Design were missing!! Yxx claims that the day Media and CG Reportors came interview the making of, suddenly a shadow rush to his rear end and grabs !! then, my only copy of drawings disappear from his workstation forever.
Afterward, I was told our motion team had tried to stop that shadow thief with japanese swords (Props from movie " Dead or Alive "," Ultra Violet "and "Blood") , but that's another story......
Storyboard is fun to draw, and I like to make storyboards into motion board even more, it present itself better in visual and duration, if time (budget) is affortable, I'll go for an Animatic of course. Here are some of my pass works I've done in Menfond, Enjoy.
Cnice, a well known brand of ToothPaste in China, I've done a few of this ad, the Client was very happy with the Director and our Production team. and here I found some and scanned, take a look.
This is not the first "Cnice" ad I worked on, here are some drawings on character study for our production team to work on. Say the "Grass hat" for the boy, Client wanted a new look for their well known Product Characters without blocking his hair.
I was also the Project Manager of this ad, I went through the Original Storyboard from the Ad agent (I didn't keep the original copy of storyboard coz it's ... ... just concept idea, haha.) and did some thumbnails, Layouts, poses, animation design.
With Miss "Left" from Menfond Creative Team's Help became a full colour Storyboard amazingly! also in PhotoShop layers, and result a fine animatic to present. Here shows one of Menfond's ad in progress Clip done by little me : D .
These are some character requested by the Client, and could be the next Cnice ad.
When project got to the production stage, I became an Animation.
As Production continue, editing, modify, add in, cut out....then, final.
