Zombie
Pizza!!!
A gruesomely good slice of Halloween animation.
This year, the pizza eats back!!!! Check out this spooky animated short, originally cooked up for the 2021 Frames of Fear animation collab, where it was projected on buildings in Adams Morgan on Halloween night. It was resurrected the next year with a chilling new soundtrack becoming our 2022 studio Halloween promo!
Credits
Creative Development, Animation, and Edit: Steve Karp
Sound Design and Mix: Walter Baccoli
Extra Goodies
The design, pitch art, and backgrounds were created using Procreate on the iPad. Layout and animation with Adobe Animate. Final color and FX in Adobe After Effects. Below are some fun behind the scenes art from the process.
Animtatic
The animatic is created to work out the basic camera, timing, layout, and story beats of the animation. The last shot in this one has some character animation already completed from an early animation test.
Animation Test
Here is an early animation test to see how character, lighting, camera, and background could all work together to create the halloween vibe we were going for. Originally a mixed media approach was going to be used for the backgrounds before settling on the fully drawn look we ended up with.
Character Design
Here is a time lapse of some exploratory character design sketches
Here is some production art that includes early concept sketches, pitch art, and final backgrounds .
