If you haven’t been following along, I’m composing shots in 3D animation to previsualize the Panda Girls movie we at 2nd Culture are producing. If you’d like to follow along with the script you can read the 10 page teaser here.

It’s definitely a nice feeling when you see something is coming together. The first two shots didn’t work together. I mentioned some reasons in my last post. This version I feel rather confident with. That isn’t to say I don’t feel that it can’t be rethought, tweaked, or edited, but that if these shots were brought to completion, they would PLAY.

There is no doubt that music helps. (And by help, I mean profoundly – to providing a tone and emotional context for what you are seeing.) I’m always amazed when I put music to images. Donovan, our 2nd Culture composer and performer, had a few old tracks he wrote a while ago, and sent them all to me. His sketches weren’t written for Panda Girls, but I rendered out several versions of these first few shots, all with different music – and WOW.