Anatomy of a Werewolf

I thought I'd post a few drawings from the Wereworld trailer we finished in September, just to shed some light on the process. The images started life as rough pencil sketches which are cleaned up until they resemble inked artwork. I used to do inking for comics using a brush and ink, so just using the pencil is a little bit easier. The principles are the same of course.
Once I've got the pencils up to the level where I know they'll scan well as solid blacks I move over into digital manipulation. The images are scanned and the contrast tweaked so that the blacks are really black and the rest is a clean white. Then its time for some computer colouring. The animation was quite stylised and didn't need too many drawings to pull off the finished piece. For example the shot of the claw was just one drawing which was chopped up and animated.

The chest rip was three drawings: a before and after, plus a hand. These were animated using After Effects and a simple mask to reveal the cut flesh does the rest.


The screaming face was two drawings - one for the face and one for the teeth. Both were stretched and distorted in After Effects to give the impression of movement and growth.