Sunday, July 24, 2022

Fire and Ice Background

A background for the Bakshi / Frazetta film "Fire and Ice" (1983), cel vinyl and acrylic paint. 

Tom Kinkade and I tried to translate Frazetta's style of muscular, twisting forms into animation backgrounds. 

We added depth and atmosphere using airbrushes. To make a soft edge on the rays of light, you could set up a floating straight stencil. Our Paasche airbrushes were powered first by loud compressors and then oxygen tanks.

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5 comments:

  1. TJuly 24, 2022 at 11:06 AM

    That is really nicely done!!

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  2. LouJuly 24, 2022 at 11:45 PM

    James,

    So how many backgrounds did you guys paint? And of those how many did you retain?

    Lou

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  3. Michaelangelo ReinaJuly 25, 2022 at 4:38 PM

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  4. Michaelangelo ReinaJuly 25, 2022 at 4:39 PM

    Michaelangelo Reina
    Did you use any airbrushes on those?

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  5. Glenn GustafsonJuly 26, 2022 at 12:00 PM

    Oxygen or co2 tanks? Unless you two were working at high altitude.

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