Mike Patten

For access to additional, unreleased storyboarding and revisionist work, please reach out to me by email at MikePatten@Pattenpending.org!

Sequences 11-17

I boarded and supervised animation for sequences 11-17. You'll also see my own animation in sequence 13! Check out my video comparisons of storyboards and final animation, as well as an example of notes that I sent to the team to guide their animation.

For this sequence, I created notes and guidelines corresponding to various Nick "eras." Most of these notes included possible outfits and gags based on music videos and specials Nick had produced 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. I also included a guide to make sure things were properly separated for compositing.

This was an incredible experience and I'm grateful to Nick, Nayt, and everyone for trusting me to bring this project to life! I’d love to do more music video work in the future!