Director - Will Sharpe, Cinematography - Erik Wilson
“I don’t make the world beautiful, Louis. The world is beautiful, and you’ve helped me to see that, too. Just remember - however hard things get, however much you feel like you’re struggling, the world is full of beauty. And it’s up to you to capture it, Louis. To look and to share it with as many people as you can. You are a prism through which that beam of life refracts.”
One of the best thing that ever exist is friendship. I don’t know how this world will operate without kindness and love from someone you’re not intimately attracted with but unconditionally in love. Things might have been different but it’s not that you can predicts things. Destiny is still the ruler. I love how it always portray that scientists do not believe in God because that’s the beauty of diversity in cultures and belief, the beauty of respect and acceptance and the beauty of living in this world. Ramanujan must have been given a talent and intelligence that anyone could think impossible but because he believed on what he’s believing, he pursued his own dreams and did whatever it takes to share his part. Mr. Hardy and Littlewood are our great friends who just made me cry, made number 1729 meaningful than I could ever imagined. The wife and the mother who patiently waited for him. This film, though didn’t cater how every equations went. I just want to say that it is for the good of all, jk. Because even if they’ll tell it to us we won’t understand haha. Math complicate matters but it’s helpful to those who want to learn.
It would be much better if I could find the original designs for all these characters but they’re either buried deep in some folder or I dont even have access to them. I’ve never inquired but it seems very early in OK KO’s development a ton of background character concept art was produced. I was still freelancing for OK KO on this episode and was given the original concept art as well as the board artists redesigns.
You’ll have to take my word that each of these are a departure from their original concept design. My job was to blend a little of the old in with the new for the final design.
Purrcival has been revised, I’m not sure by who, but I had drawn him holding a book in his left hand. I dont mind that it needed to be taken out but I want to be clear that I did not draw that hand.
Behind the scenes info from Character Designer Ben Bates!
More from ‘Red Action to the Future’. I’m not sure how well the idea really communicates in the final episode (or what sense it makes, it actually really weirds me out since at her age she should have already reached her maximum height) but as Red Action ages she gets quite a bit bigger. I worked really hard making slight adjustments here and there to make her proportions continue to make sense and balance. (I did not draw the “normal” Red Action on the left but all the other stuff is me with colors by the Color Stylist).
Or whoops, no, I also didn’t draw the lines around the mouth or the muscles(?) in the arms on far right version of Red Action. I was unaware she was supposed to be that old when I was originally assigned the job.
Behind the scenes info and designs from Back In Red Action from Ben Bates!
Ok these are from ‘Red Action to the Future’ and this is the first time I’ve watched a finished episode with my work included! It turned out great and reinvigorated my sense of self-worth haha!
All the work for this episode was drawn while I still worked full-time at Marvel Animation as a storyboard artist on Avengers Assemble, I did this OK KO stuff as a freelancer on the side (and had a blast doing it). The first few images are my line art with our Color Stylist Kali tearing it up with the colors.
The third image is a screenshot from the finished episode. At first I thought the overseas animators were using my chip bag design as a texture, just pasting it in digitally, but careful examination reveals its hand drawn! Those Koreans are killing it, nearly perfectly replicating a fairly complicated design for animation.
Speaking of design, the next two images are straight from the storyboards. As you can see the design for the box and bag were already pretty well defined by the board artist. I simply fleshed out the concept. Now that I work full time at Cartoon Network on OK KO as a Character/Prop Designer thats mostly what my job is. The storyboard artists design everything and I draw a pretty version of it.
Its an interesting reversal from my previous experience at Marvel Animation. Avengers Assemble was a script driven show, which meant as a storyboard artist I was being dictated what to draw by the writers. And anytime a new character or prop appeared it didn’t matter what I drew in the boards, the Character/Prop designer was entitled to design as they saw fit. For example we didn’t have any design for Whitney Frost (aka Madame Masque) when she first appeared on Avengers Assemble. For my own amusement I tried to introduce body shape variation (because its fun to draw different types of people) and designed her in my boards to be a heavier, stocky woman. Naturally this was rejected.
OK KO is a board driven show, even though each episode still begins with a group of writers hashing out the plot, the storyboard artists are really the authority and creators of the episode and in a broader sense the show. Whatever is in the boards my job is to primarily execute their vision.
Perhaps both of these experiences describe the differences of most script driven shows and most board driven shows. I just find it interesting how I can go from one end to the other and stay in the same place on the totem pole.
Designs and behind the scenes info from Designer Ben Bates!!
Hey! Here’s the first original short with FULL CREDITS listed under the cut!
Last year the fine folks at Cartoon Network gave us the chance to create shorts to get the word out about the OK K.O.! Game! We get to do original shorts based on a game?! What!!!! Cartoon Network fully believes in the game and the idea so doing a cartoon for it was a no-brainer!
The idea for this short came from the development process between us and the game developers at Double Stallion.
We all felt super good about the controls, the punching, the throwing and the ground-pounding all felt great. The team had the brilliant idea to add slide kicks to KO’s moveset which was awesome! I collaborated with the games’ Art Director Eric Angelillo on the ingame animation:
Slide-kicking eventually became so fun that I was doing it all the time in the game, which influenced the story for this short! (Storyboarded by Toby JonesandStu Livingston)
In a chance of a lifetime, I got to work with one of my FAVORITE studios, Science SARU on the creation of this short. The studio is headed by Masaaki Yuasa and Eunyoung Choi who are both huge inspirations for me. I got the chance to visit the studio during my visit to Japan last year and they are doing some amazing, next-level stuff. I’m completely humbled that they wanted to work with us and I really enjoy the energetic direction of this short which was thanks to Abel Gongora and Juan Manuel Laguna. We used several of the elements from the old pilot, but as you can see, Science SARU gave the look a distinctive twist!
FULL CREDITS UNDER THE CUT!
OK K.O.! Lakewood Plaza Turbo Short 501_238_001: “KO”
Created by Ian Jones-Quartey
Supervising Director Toby Jones
Storyboarded by Toby Jones Stu Livingston
Producer Jackie Buscarino Janet Dimon
Animation Produced by Science SARU
Animation Director Abel Gongora Juan Manuel Laguna
Более 100 хайрез кадров и фото со съемок из фильма “Человек, который познал бесконечность” с участием Джереми Айронса, Джереми Нортэма, Тоби Джонса, Стивена Фрая и Дева Пателя. Это реальная история известного индийского математика-самоучки Сриниваса Рамануджана. Даты выхода фильма на наши экраны пока нет, но это не мешает нам полюбоваться кадрами! http://www.startfilm.ru/gallery/661364/#cadr
We have over 100 HQ stills from the movie THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY with Jeremy Irons, Jeremy Northam, Stephen Fry, Toby Jones and Dev Patel. Here
Emmy nominations are just around the corner and after our success in 2015 with a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding TV Movie for Agatha Christie’s Poirot, we’ve been excited to get back in the Emmy game! This year, Acorn TV is eligible to submit four original programs: Agatha Christie’s The Witness for the Prosecution,Striking Out,Close to the Enemy, and The Level.
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Drama Series - Striking Out
Lead Actress in a Drama Series - Amy Huberman
Limited Series - The Level
Limited Series - Close to the Enemy
TV Movie - Agatha Christie’s The Witness for the Prosecution
Lead Actress in a TV Movie/Limited Series - Andrea Riseborough
Lead Actor in a TV Movie/Limited Series - Toby Jones
Lead Actor in a TV Movie/Limited Series - Jim Sturgess
Supporting Actress in a TV Movie/Limited Series - Kim Cattrall
Supporting Actress in a TV Movie/Limited Series - Alfred Molina (Close to the Enemy)
