Here's a promo I worked on for the HBO series "Game of Thrones."
When I was in 2nd grade, my class learned how to make origami cranes. Our goal was to make 1000 and send them in a box to the White House for them to put on their Christmas tree. As I remember it, we made our goal, but not in time for the cranes to make it on the tree, prompting a letter from some poor aide who had to thank/ apologize to 20 elementary school kids and tell them that all that work was for nothing.
Still, it left me with an unconscious compulsion to fold every piece of paper I got my hands on. Every homework assignment I ever received had a few extra creases in it when I turned it in. The hardest part of taking standardized tests was obeying the line on the front that said "DO NOT FOLD," which just felt like a dare. My parents must have recognized this early since they started buying me real origami paper and instruction booklets, and they still have a box full of paper cranes, bears, boxes, deer, fish, swans, flowers, throwing stars, water bombs, rabbits, Yodas (Yodi?), etc.
Who knew that all those years of folding post-it notes, napkins, dollar bills, and after-dinner mint wrappers would eventually pay off when Elastic.tv began assembling this Behind the Scenes video for the upcoming season of Game of Thrones, and I was asked to make a folded paper dragon that could animate to fly around a map and highlight the different locations the show is shot in.
I took to youtube, where one can find many videos demonstrating how to fold different styles of dragon, as well as videos for how to easily slice cherry tomatoes (use tupperware lids), how to cut glass bottles with a string (super dangerous-looking, I don't recommend it), how to make the hip hop airhorn sound (my favorite sound in all of hip hop), and countless other how-to videos with no reason behind them.
I made a handful of the designs, we picked our favorite, and then I folded Jose (we named him Jose) with wire rigging down the spine and along the wings to keep him in the poses we wanted. The paper egg he hatches out of was from a scaled up copy of a page of script from the show's pilot, which I folded into an egg shape based off a water bomb design but with the corners in to make it more egg shaped. That portion where the flat paper folds into the egg was actually shot backwards, since it turned out to be easier to unfold it frame by frame. We then shot Jose from all angles at various flapping points with a Canon 5D Mark III and stop-motion software called, coincidentally, DragonFrame, and compiled them with Adobe AfterEffects.
Additionally, I illustrated and animated several shots, such as the brick getting squashed by the stack of books, the fish about to get hooked, the graph showing story complexity v. pages read. Also that's my hand tapping a pencil.
Made with:
Paper
Wires
Adobe AfterEffects
Adobe Photoshop
DragonFrame
VALAR MORGHULIS
Who knew that all those years of folding post-it notes, napkins, dollar bills, and after-dinner mint wrappers would eventually pay off when Elastic.tv began assembling this Behind the Scenes video for the upcoming season of Game of Thrones, and I was asked to make a folded paper dragon that could animate to fly around a map and highlight the different locations the show is shot in.
I took to youtube, where one can find many videos demonstrating how to fold different styles of dragon, as well as videos for how to easily slice cherry tomatoes (use tupperware lids), how to cut glass bottles with a string (super dangerous-looking, I don't recommend it), how to make the hip hop airhorn sound (my favorite sound in all of hip hop), and countless other how-to videos with no reason behind them.
I made a handful of the designs, we picked our favorite, and then I folded Jose (we named him Jose) with wire rigging down the spine and along the wings to keep him in the poses we wanted. The paper egg he hatches out of was from a scaled up copy of a page of script from the show's pilot, which I folded into an egg shape based off a water bomb design but with the corners in to make it more egg shaped. That portion where the flat paper folds into the egg was actually shot backwards, since it turned out to be easier to unfold it frame by frame. We then shot Jose from all angles at various flapping points with a Canon 5D Mark III and stop-motion software called, coincidentally, DragonFrame, and compiled them with Adobe AfterEffects.
Additionally, I illustrated and animated several shots, such as the brick getting squashed by the stack of books, the fish about to get hooked, the graph showing story complexity v. pages read. Also that's my hand tapping a pencil.
Made with:
Paper
Wires
Adobe AfterEffects
Adobe Photoshop
DragonFrame
VALAR MORGHULIS
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