The Ant Bully opens on friday. and since you’re here you’re probably curious which shots i worked on. here’s a quick list in chronological order that hopefully doesn’t give away too much plot.

• during the big flood sequence, water rushes toward a nurse ant and a pupa. i did a retake where i animated the pupa screaming.
• during Lucas’ trial, i did four shots of him and Zoc standing around, one in which Lucas rationalizes why he flooded the colony.
• during Fugax’s introduction, i animated 2 shots of Lucas being a brat in response to Fugax’s heroic stories and then his eyebrow raise reaction shot to Fugax.
• after Lucas leaves the colony, i animated three shots in a row of Lucas becoming frightened and then the frog emerging.
• in that same frog sequence, i did a retake of Fugax asking the group if anyone knows what “WAAAAAGH” means.
• near the end of the film when Lucas is being dragged away by guards, i animated the reaction shots of Hova and Zoc.
• in preparation for the final battle, the wasp leader tells his troops to start their engines. i animated the shots of them starting up their wings.
• during the end battle, i animated Kreela and her wasp flying through the air and landing in a bird bath.
• during the end battle, Hova swoops down and saves Lucas, i animated the shot directly after that where it all goes awry again.
• my final shot in the film is the final shot of the battle sequence where the group is celebrating on the wasps.

i also did a ton of crowd cycles that are used all over the film. they’re quite a bit harder to pick out however ;) but if you really really want to, pay attention to the background ants during the flood sequence when they’re climbing up the walls and they slip, pretty much whenever the ants are cheering and all of the background wasps, pill bugs, and stink beetles. there is also a shot that my friend Jason Hendrich did of the ant kids celebrating and doing a jig at the end of the obstacle course sequence. that animation is based heavily off of the jig cycle that i had done for the cheering ants.

i’ll have animations up shortly in the animation section in case you want a closer look at my shots. go see the movie though this friday, in imax 3d if you can :)