THOMAS SPETTEL Showreel

Decided to redo my showreel as the previous one was lacking in several elements that would promote myself professionally.

Don't forget to like/comment and visit my website please :)

Shell & Paddy - AOFA Spring Showcase

Hello everyone. Since I am working for King Bee Studios, not much of "Shell & Paddy" has popped up. Though now, the film is been shown at the AOFA Spring Showcase: Click Here!!!!!

or copy the link from here: https://www.americanonlinefilmawards.org/film/14S94dqkfb/...whichever you prefer.

Here are some of the movie stills:

Shell and Paddy is being advertised on kickstarters. Please back this project if your up to it :)

Movie Stills for the next Shell & Paddy

 Please be patient for this next upcoming cartoon episode

Shell doodles

Please Vote for Shell & Paddy

If anyone is looking at this post right now on my blog, then please vote my project to pitch at party pitch 2013 on this link: http://www.animationmagazine.net/pitch-party-2013-vote/

Please cast your vote onto Shell & Paddy

Designs for Shell & Paddy

Again I have been doing more drawings of Shell & Paddy, preparing for pitching. These images will be used to describe the clarity of the story, relationships and the characters.

Mother and Junior

You can clearly see the relationships for the characters here. You already know that Shell and Paddy are comical enemies.

Draft sketch

 

More "Shell & Paddy" drawings.

 

Next Shell & Paddy idea

Shell  Paddy Storyboard; rock 'em high; by Thomas Spettel

Shell & Paddy Sneak peek at next storyboard

 

Cupple of updates

I have uploaded the 11 second character animation for the March  Competition. I did not had time to colour all of it in but I like the way I have just focused on the character animating side and that the mouths were hidden behind masks (bio-suits)

 

This is what I have in mind for the next "shell & paddy". I have already begun doing the storyboard and need to scan them in to then add them and edit them in Toon Boom Story Board Pro.

Current Update

For some time now I have not been updating my blog a lot. Personally because I am still trying to get my main project of Bath Time Trouble finished as soon as possible but it has been really difficult finding colour artists locally and through the Internet. Fortunately I have come across someone who can colour in shots for me which is good, then I clean up any editing along the way.

Here is a progress video's of this Shell & Paddy Project:

This is just a preview with sound.

I am quite ill at the current stage, suffering from Tonsillitis and it has and is not being kind to me when trying to eat and work :(

Shell & Paddy: Bath Time-Trouble, (Opening credits)

Joe Hill and myself have come together with a brief view of the opening credits. We still need to include the colour artist and I may have found one.

Shell & Paddy Website!

A site for Shell & Paddy is up now

http://tho409.wix.com/shell-and-paddy

You can watch the pilot episode or first animated film made for Shell & Paddy

Looking forward to the Holidays

Been doing some more drawings during my work on the shell and paddy project. Here is one where I randomly drew four vegetables. You may recognise the potato from my 11 second club animatied video

So I drew a positive tomato, a nervous potato, a wacky cauliflower and a negative carrot.

 

You'll also be happy to note that the rough animation of the episode "bath-time trouble" of shell and paddy is NEARLY COMPLETE! Were are almost done animating and and soon will enter in the voices, looking for sound effects, maybe from the music guy I found.

 

And, to wish you all happy holidays as its soon Christmas...sorry I mean Decemberween!

Rough Story idea (Shell &Paddy)

Thought up of another episode idea for Shell & Paddy. This one features Shell going up a tall rocky slope, (he will pull the top down for exaggerated law of gravity defiance) and pummels Paddy with rocks. Wear a helmet Paddy or should I say from the nearest animal you can grasp one from.

These two images above are what would be a bizzare animal, stuck to the rock with a helmet upon its head. See how the body becomes stretchy it becomes when you remove its helmet.