the Ice age adventures of buck wild

Buck Wild was a lot of fun to work on! I contributed set designs, colour keys and matte paintings all under the leadership of inimitable art director Chad Weatherford

Matte Paintings

I only did a few matte paintings for BWD, but I was quite proud of this one. I worked on it with Chad’s input - the most distant layer with the trees is largely his work!

Colour Keys

I’ve learnt so much from Chad over the years. I always learn a lot from working with him, and have heaps of fun doing it, and this project was no exception. The colour keys were especially fun. Chad is a wizard with colour and it’s something I enjoy so having the chance to pick his brains and compare thoughts was a privlege! Thanks Chad!

Set Designs

Set design was an interesting challenge on this show. It's a travelling show, so every episode has many new environments, yet we were on a TV budget so we had to stretch out every cent and get it up on the screen. We were often designing sets, like the oasis above, with this in mind. Planning out some parts to be painted set extensions or cards, so that we could get the epic scope the story called for without breaking the bank. It required clever design choices, and lots of custom pipeline solutions for individual sets or shots. But we got it done!

Colour Keys

Viren’s study was a key set we revisited many times in multiple episodes. I created these colour passes to explore local colours and to see how to light the set at various times of day. The passage of time is quite important in the show, and we tracked time of day, light direction and even the time of the month. This was because the moon is. a major source of magic in the world, and it’s phase affects the capabilities of some key characters.

Fan art

The Dragon Prince was really embraced by the fans, and there is a whole community of creators who set about making fan art of the show and it’s characters. Above is my ‘May the 4th’ rendition of Callum.
Below are the mockups I made of our characters as Funko Pops. Happily several of these were made real, and grace my desk to this day.