Not sure how we missed this fabulous graphic novel-flavored broadcast promo by Shotopop for season 10 of Spike’s Ink Master back in the fall, but we’re making up for it now.

Directed by Richard Payne and Dipankar Sengupta, the ambitious 100-second film is full of poster-quality frames and fun blocking – certainly one of our fave TV promotional pieces of 2017.
 

Client: Spike

Production: Shotopop
Directors: Richard Payne, Dipankar Sengupta
Producer: Casper Franken
Executive Producer: Aaron Barr
Editing: Richard Payne
Art Direction, character design: Adam Relf
Storyboards: Dipankar Sengupta
Backgrounds: Adam Relf, Shan Jiang, Mohammed Mukhtar, Ionut Lupu, Carin Standford, Casper Franken
AE Character Animation: Richard Payne
AE compositing: Richard Payne, Ionut Lupu, Sam Bevington
Cel character animation: Marguerite Dumans, Dipankar Sengupta
Cel fx: Dipankar Sengupta
Cel inking and coloring: Beidi Guo, Alison Oxborrow, Keith Kavanagh, Marguerite Dumans, Dipankar Sengupta, Catriona Finnie, Casper Franken, Hannah Lau-Walker

Sound effects: Soundsmiths
Music: Tom Smith – Lost In Tibet