Mr. Mouse

This mouse is a mouse boss, he's like a dirty 1920's mouse union organizer or something, hardened, focused, pissed.  He works in the mouse trap industry, it's a job that needs to be done for the dregs of mouse society.

messin with some pen pressure settings. really liking it.  Flash and Photoshop color experimental.  some grain, opacity tweaks, and adjustment layers and gradients.

xoxo

-Mike

Compositing Magic.

Trick #231231312:

When you got a close-up, if you gaussian blur your BG, it mimics a wide angle lens and gives you more depth! It's less about mimicing live action, and more about giving the audience a clear place to focus. It doesn't feel right to stare at the out of focus BG details, so it draws your audience eyes right where you want them to look: at your crappy animation.



oh i guess here's the before picture to compare.



Okay back to work.

Compositing.

Or trying to teach myself.

- Almost Finished Chris