Roaches: A Graphic Novel: ants

An early motion test made in After Effects for the snail riders.

Roaches don't have an auto industry but they are ingenious improvisers. There have been many good suggestions that I more fully explore the world of these bugs themselves without humanizing them so thoroughly in regular type human cities. And that is a really good suggestion.

The problem with me not taking it up sooner is because of many, many perfectly valid delays and also lame excuses. There are also some more factions within the Roach culture that I have discovered. Secretive orders and clans that keep the pontificating boob that we know and love, The Grand Roach, in power, are starting to get more fleshed out.

Stay tuned for more tests including some of the main dialogue for the first Roaches short.


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An early look at the first Roaches animation with the voice-over and some sound effects work added in.

The first few parts of the animation production are nearly completed. The 20-30 storyboard panels are synced up within an "animatic". This rough animation shows the story and the general timing for this animated short.

And I mean short. It's four minutes total but that is still pretty ambitious for a small production company.

The performance by the voice actor Julian Mulock, who plays the Grand Roach, is really excellent! His acting skills go a very, very long way selling these "cutesy" bugs and absurd nature of the short itself. I mean, how many bugs go to war anyway? Not a lot I imagine.

In few more weeks I'll have the next steps done. Next, I'm replacing enough art to post another animatic. Please, "like" and "thumbs up" this clip here on Blogger and at Youtube. It helps!


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Roaches: A Graphic Novel

Snail Riders

Roaches Storyboards