Mathilde - Some painted animatic storyboards

I had a limited time to do a short montage/trailerish animatic. So I made a grid of full-rez panels (1080p) and painted full scenes on each. Panning BG's and limited animations. It makes for huge files but it actually worked pretty well.

Amazon Studios Update

For the past year I've been working with screenwriter Gary Milin creating "test films".

What are test films? Basically they're feature-length animatics (moving storyboards) adapted from original screenplays. Amazon Studios is the creation of Amazon.com. Their goal is to compete with the big studios and produce their own feature films. The innovation of Amazon Studios is that they take script submissions and film ideas from the general public and hold contests and generally try to promote "outsider" talent.

So far, I've been lead artist on 2 of these features, both of which have won the monthly 100K prize. I've also won "best drawn storyboard".

Here are links to the 2 features I've illustrated:

Myth of a Modern Man (Storyboards):


http://studios.amazon.com/movies/6461


Sky Pirates (Storyboards and Art Direction):

Click on "Trailer 6 - Official Hi-Res Version"


http://studios.amazon.com/projects/3439#player/11906


You can stream them for free courtesy of Amazon Studios.

Last Words: some storyboards

My absolute favorite part of production is the storyboard phase. I think it comes from my background of being an avid comic book geek as well as hopeless cinematography enthusiast. Comics and film and the sequential shots they use to tell a story; it's a visual language that I love, live by and will always try to perfect.

Old Portfolio Material

Last Words - 4th Year Film (rough version)

LAST WORDS


Last Words - 4th Year Film from Mikey Derrah on Vimeo.

My 4th Year film.

DEMO REEL 2010


Demo Reel 2010 from Mikey Derrah on Vimeo.


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