Comissions - Julie van Mierlo

Here are two commissions i've done for Julie van Mierlo , a Wacom Europe employee.

This is a cartoonish/charicature portrait of her done in Adobe Photoshop.

 Although the commission was free and although there was no deadline, i felt i've been a bit late with finishing the main commission so i threw in a bonus of doodles and sketches i was playing around with in order to get used with her cartoon - like design.

Moth - Animated Short

Moth from Ciprian Costas on Vimeo.


It is incredible how months of work have resulted only in a 2 minute video. I am thankful for the result, i would like to thank Robin Gerndt & Dan Harvey for their help and finally i am grateful for being nominated for Glammies. Hope you enjoy it!

Thank you for watching!

Moth - Colored Backgrounds

The backgrounds for my animated short are finally finished with the great help of Dan Harvey . After some revision and choosing the color pallets carefully, we decided to leave watercolor effects out and focus on a more chalky style.
Here are the results.

Background Test

I am almost finished with my backgrounds. I decided to add a chalky look to them. The character stands out fine. Wondering if i should put an overlay on the character as well, to make his own colors look chalky or watercolory as well.

Moth - 75%?

I managed to animate most of the scenes, but i still need to color everything.
The sound is an older version and unsynched, i will need to speak with my sound guy for a newer version.
By May i hope i will finish most of the animation, but since my background artists had some problems,i think i will have to take over some backgrounds as well but i doubt i could make it in time.

While animating i figured some scenes lack anticipation, so i had to animate some little extra details, like in Scene 4 (added preparation to fly away), Scene 16 (Moth gets in but almost falls) Scene 22 (Flame noticing Moth) a.s.o.
With all this, the animation time has increased to cca 1:55 (edited), and it still feels like it lacks anticipation on certain scenes.

Even though they've all been tests, all videos that have gone through Adobe Premiere, have came out with a pixelated format and an annoyingly shaking screen. I assume this is due to the export settings, but a lot of the times it wouldn't export the video in widescreen.