Mike Patten

Sequences 11-17 -

I was in charge of boarding and supervising animation for sequences 11-17. I also animated sequence 13 in this section. Below I have shared video comparisons of story boards and final animation, as well as an example of notes that were sent to the team to guide their animations.

For this sequence I sent our team notes and guidelines on what we wanted. Because the theme of this video was going through Nick’s various “eras” most of these notes included possible outfits and gags based off of music videos and specials Nick had put out throughout the years.

Sequence 13 -

I animated this segment in storyboard pro and made the background in Procreate. Compositing work was done by Tim Farrell. I wanted to show that the hospital was smokey and atmospheric so I mocked up examples and sent them to Tim along with reference notes and swatches.

Sequence 25

This sequence served as our grand finale. The idea was to pull something off similar to the Everything Everywhere All at Once quick cut montage and show a whole bunch of different styles of Nick singing the final verse of the song. To prepare this sequence Nick sent me a video of him singing the finale verse which I then synced to the audio track, marked up with dialogue notes, and cut into individual sections to send to our animation team who would essentially “Go hog wild” with it. Check out this before and after comparison below.

For this sequence I sent our team notes and guidelines to make sure the quick cuts would sync up with each other. it was very important that the eyes and mouths hooked up properly to avoid any wonky cuts, also included was a guide to make sure things were properly seperated for compositing.

All in all this was an incredible experience and im grateful to Nick, Nayt, and everyone for bringing me on and trusting me to help bring this project to life! Also a huge shout out to our animation team who absolutely freaked it!! I highly recommend following all of thier works.

I’d love to do more music video work in the future!