Discovery Science – The Drawing Club

I’ve been neglecting to post for a while so here’s a long one to make up for it.

I just finished working with Interspectacular on some animated television bumper spots for the Discovery Channel. This whole job took maybe on and off 3 months to finish. I think four of these are going to be aired on TV (“Moon Or Bust 2” and “The Wright Bros” are extras that we did for fun). I’ve done a little work in motion graphics but this was the first time that I could have my own work animated. Basically, I did the storyboards and the key frames for all of these spots. You can kind of see the evolution of my process where I tried to get really complicated with the first “Caveman” spot to the last “Wright Bros” spot which is extremely simple. It was a learning experience for myself in the way I had to think more about the readability of a 16 second spot versus what would read for a print illustration. Many thanks to the two Creative Directors at Interspectacular who wrote and directed all the spots, Michael Uman and Luis Blanco, the two hardworking animators Ben Lee(animated “Caveman” and “Columbus”) and Efrain Cintron (animated everything else). Oh, and my favorite designer Ara Devejian who did a lot of the type.

Here’s a sample of the first storyboard I did for “Caveman” that went through a few revisions..

A sample of the changes and tweaks that went on through this process. This was a scene in “Moon Or Bust” that went through several evolutions. First one looked too much like the surface of the moon, we added telephone wires and changed some colors. Which wasn’t enough, I made a small sign pointing up with the word “MOON” on it, which wasn’t quite enough. Finally the creatives at Discovery Channel insisted on a background that was set in New England. I think the final grassy version is what’s going to be aired on the Discovery Channel.