Coheed and Cambria

In 2005 United Pixels first group effort was creating an animation series for Coheed and Cambria featuring the art of Christopher Shy.

His art has accompanied Coheed and Cambria’s album - Good Apollo I’m Burning Star, IV, Vol. 1 as a graphic novel.

The team from United Pixels included:
Thom Miecznikowski Creative Director, Director Ep: 1, 2
Sean McMenemy, Director Ep: 3, 4
Allan Roysdon, Director Ep: 5
Shane Duncan, 3D modeling and effects.

All the art work was created by Christopher Shy, and the United Pixels team took his original Photoshop files and broke them in to layers separating all the elements to create, backgrounds, objects and characters.

Some objects were made into 3D models using 3D Studio Max where Shy’s art work was used as texture maps to help integrate the look of the final product. Max was also used to generate flowing hair and Particle Illusion was used to create other practical visual effects.

The elements were then brought together in Adobe After Effects for final animation and compositing.

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5