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Hello, my name is Rodney Lambright II.
and I work at Wisconsin Public Television
as an animator and a producer.
On the "FIBS" animation,
I worked as the character designer,
mostly animating the character.
I also helped Stan with some of the storyboarding
and figuring out how the story was going to work.
So in this animation,
we have three different styles mashed in together.
One being the pixel art.
Then we have the voxel style.
And then we have this 3D space made in Unreal.
Talking about the character designs, I mean --
limited to about 100 pixels per character.
I mean, it was much less than that.
A lot of it was trying to take the flat art
and set it in that 3D world
to make the flat art not feel like it is so flat.
Another thing was trying to make the characters as emotive as possible
and make them feel like they actually fit in real world space.
Another aspect of it was creating these voxel pieces that Stan worked on
to marry this boxy style with the pixel art and also that 3D space
so we had that extra dimension to really merge things together.
- When we first did that and explored that,
there was something that was still just a little missing.
It was a little too far removed.
So we added in a lot of different voxels
to our animation.
And voxels are like extruded two dimensional objects
in a three dimensional space.
- When we originally started the project,
Stan had talked about how
this really had this kind of 90s video game arc,
arcade-style theme to it.
We really wanted to reference this old arcade style.
I think one of my favorite parts of this process
was all the cool references that we put inside of the animation.
- We tried to incorporate as many different 80s and 90s references
to movies or games as possible.
There's a part where Patrick goes through a transformation
and that's very much a tongue and cheek reference
to a genesis game called "Altered Beast.
There's all these little kinds of nudges
that we put in there
that we thought would be fun for other people
who also grew up in the same kind of time frame.
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