Smashbits #16: DISNEY XD - Giant Cop FINISHED ANIMATION
Added 2017-08-26 18:39:25 +0000 UTC
For my second Disney animation I was assigned another fake commercial, but this time there would be no green screen, meaning it would be purely my direction. This was very exciting, but also intimidating because the audio they sent me was so rough and they gave me the contract with less than a week before the deadline. But when I returned from my Long Island trip, I discovered that Giant Cop had aired and I was blown away by how good it looked on TV and how much funnier it was with the improved sound design. I do not have that aired clip just yet but I will try and record it from the Disney website if possible. For now, enjoy these production clips!
This scene happens 18 minutes into episode 9, and is Parker's response to playing a game about a giant cop with a tiny partner. I was not given that context, so I was surprised how well my clip fit into the actual episode! The hardest part of this clip was definitely the opening background, it was described to me as a helicopter pan and I spent most of the production time doing different drafts of that, super zoomed in, and then had to make the rest of the direction simpler without losing my style. They loved it! Fun fact, this was when I first found out Parker's last name is Coppins, but I thought it was a joke credit because he was playing a cop.
