“There’s all kinds of crazy cross hatching and stuff that you don’t typically see in animated cartoons.”Īlthough Pat still draws a few extra frames here and there, almost everything is completed in Character Animator. “Because I’m a comic book artist and illustrator, I insisted on drawing everything on paper with nibs because I wanted the cartoon to look as much like a hand-drawn comic as possible,” says Pat. The dark comedy is cut from the same cloth as legendary classics like The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits-and is even in black and white-but comes with a few different spins, including the groundbreaking animation that begins with paper-and-pen illustrations. Seth and Pat storyboarded with paper and pencil to plan out the short film. “We needed an animator and after seeing my storyboards and artwork he said, ‘Let’s finish it’.” Blending traditional comic book style with modern animation “One day I was talking to Seth about an animation project I was working on with a Dublin based comedy writer named Garret Shanley,” says Pat. He went on to work for the popular Nickelodeon Kids television show Blue’s Clues, which was one of the first shows to use Adobe After Effects, giving him even steadier footing in his profession.Īfter years or working with a range of companies such as Boeing and Microsoft, Seth too went on to teach at Seattle Art Institute, which is ultimately where he and Pat met. Seth aspired to be a cartoonist when he started his studies at the New York City School of Visual Arts but fell in love with animation while there. He always maintained his stature in the underground comics scene as contributor and art director for Mineshaft magazine, and was eventually recruited to teach storyboarding at both the Seattle Art Institute and Seattle Film Institute. In 2005, he created animation for the documentary Derailroaded. In the 1990s he was an art director for Seattle-based comic book publisher Fantagraphics Books, contributed to many well-known comics, and produced comics and illustrations for Nickelodeon, National Geographic Kids Magazine, and HIGHLIGHTS. Pat, an award-winning designer, cartoonist, and illustrator has created hundreds of CD, 45 record and LP covers going back to the late 1980s for labels like Twin/Tone, Columbia, Subpop, and more. Illustration by Pat Moriarity and animation by Seth Zeichner. The duo are working on an 8-minute short film titled The Realm Beyond Reason that brings hand-drawn comic illustrations to life using Adobe Character Animator, producing a distinctly unique aesthetic and feel. One shining example of this comes from two veterans of the animation and comics fields, Seth Zeichner and Pat Moriarity. The trend is obvious in digital animation, where content is perpetually disrupted by fresh minds and novel tools. The dynamic relationship between design and technology continues to push creatives to new heights, with each element feeding off the other to present artists with new opportunities. Short Animated Film Brings Hand-Drawn Comics to Life with Adobe Character Animator CC
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