A lot of times at my day job I will be brought in on a project that was started a long time ago but for one reason or another was never completed. It will then be placed in my bin to get done. Dine & Dash is one of those projects.

It’s a cool concept … comic book style commercial. And one of our guys in the print department, Bryan Long, did an excellent job with the illustrations.

The Characters

The Diner

For the last few days I’ve been working on prepping the artwork for the commercial. Creating the layout of the comic book and the individual frames and jazzing up the illustrations a bit with some dodging and burning in Photoshop.

Comic Book Cover

Comic Book Inside Layout

Unfortunately, while the illustrations are great they are not ideal for animation purposes and there just isn’t time to have him re-tool his illustrations. So for the animation part of this commercial, I think about the only thing I can really do is some camera moves in After Effects with the illustrations in each frame separated into different planes to give it some depth and some simple animation where I can.

So … I’m off to animate! More next time … same blog space … later blog time!