Frozen

A Material Point Method For Snow Simulation – Siggraph 2013

Shot Progression – Grand Pabby

Daniel Peixe | Disney

Here’s the other progression reel I wanted to share. In this case its a much more subtle shot, with acting and dialogue. I used video reference and tried to perform the dialogue as if I was the character of Grand Pabby, the old wise Troll. Unfortunately my acting skills have much to be desired and could only use some snippets of video for reference. The rest of the acting came out of kind of acting things out in front of a mirror while animating, and going from there. Also , director and supervisor notes helped me a lot in the acting decisions.

Here’s the people that I would like to credit for this shot:
Voice of Grand Pabby: Ciaran Hinds
Story Boards: Nicole Mitchell
Animation supervisor : Lino Disalvo
Directors: Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
Anim Tech Check: Jorge Garcia
Crowds animation: Tuan Nguyen and Yasser Hamed
Tech Anim: Keith Wilson
Lighting: Ken Brain
Music Score: Christophe Beck

Shot Progression – Sven

Daniel Peixe | Disney

I’ve been wanting to post a work in progress video of some of my shots from Frozen. This is the first one I wanted to post and it shows the process that I go through on a shot like this. I use 2d animated rough tests a lot in my workflow , specially for a broad cartoony shot like this one. I wanted also to show how the 2d sketch translates into the CG character , and the fact that I don’t copy 100% the 2d into the CG , I just use it as a reference and starting point. Later, I hide it and concentrate on polishing and refining the CG animation.
I would like to credit the talented people responsible for making this shot look the way it does in the final movie:

Voice acting of Kristoff: Jonathan Groff
Story Boards: Fawn Veerasunthorn
Animation supervisor : Lino Disalvo
Directors: Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
Sven’s rig: David Suroviec
Kristoff’s rig: Nicklas Puetz
Tech Anim :Corey Bolwyn
FX: Mike Navarro
Lighting: Benjamin Huang
Music Score: Christophe Beck

And of course, I want to thank the amazing Mitja Rabar for his role as Sven during the live action reference !!

I hope you enjoy it!

Shot Progression

Bobby Pontillas | Disney

An animation breakdown of one of my favorite moments I was fortunate enough to animate on Frozen!
I don’t usually shoot video reference extensively (clearly) , but we were on an accelerated schedule so I had to work very efficiently and had one week for this. I poured my soul into it and with the guidance of my supes, somehow it got done!

Hope you enjoy, Cheers guys thanks for watching.

More wonderful folks to be credited with this:
Storyboards- John Ripa
Character Design- Jin Kim, Brittney Lee
Rigging-Iker De Los Mozos, Jesus Canal
Modeling-Suzan Kim
Layout-Daniel Hu
Animation Supervision-Lino Di Salvo, Wayne Unten, Becky Bresee
Animation-Bobby Pontillas
Tech Anim-Joy Johnson, Dave Suroviec, Richard Van Cleave
Lighting-Vina Mahoney
Song written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez
Performed by Katie Lopez

Frozen is directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck
Made at the Walt Disney Animation Studios