Showing posts with label Film Production. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Film Production. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

3D World #159... Featuring Me!

My film, "Princess of the Magical Tears" has a two-page article about it in this month's issue (#159) of 3DWorld magazine!

It's in the section called 'Short Cuts', and I answered a lot of questions about my thought process and some of the technical challenges I had when making my film.

 The article isn't on the website, it's only in the magazine at the moment, so you have to buy the magazine if you want to read it, but this month's issue will be FREE for the iPad / iPhone during Siggraph, which is August 5th-9th, so check it out then if you have one!

UPDATE:  Here's a link the abbreviated web-version of the article:  http://www.3dworldmag.com/2012/07/19/new-animation-short-princess-of-the-magical-tears/.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

People Are Talking!

"Princess of the Magical Tears" will be featured in an upcoming issue of 3D World Magazine!!!  I believe it will be the September issue (#159), but I will announce when it becomes available.

Also, there was nice mention of it in this review of the CalArts Producers' Show from the LAist!

Monday, May 9, 2011

AD SPACE:

Here's a promotional card I made for my film to give out at the Producers' Show:


Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Film Time!

This is it; That magical time of year when I go into my cave and don't come out until April. My storyboards for this year's film are almost done, to the point where I can tell pretty much what all the shots in my film are going to be. Now is the time to begin planning how I will complete this massive accomplishment in the few short months that I have. So I thought I would share my production schedule:

These two sheets are what a film looks like to me before the first drawing has even begun.  One is a calendar letting me know what days I have to do each shot, and the other is a shot breakdown, letting me know what pieces of animation there are to do in each shot.

I scheduled my shots from most difficult to least difficult in my calendar.  The red areas are vacation time when I will not be working as much on my film.  I plan to have all of my animation done by the time spring break rolls around, and after that I will spend all of April fine-tuning, coloring, and fixing things that do not work.



All the red stuff in my shot breakdown indicates things that have not been worked on at all, which at this point is everything. When I do some work I change it to yellow, and when I consider it finished, I change it to green. By the end of April, everything red should be green.

I blurred out the descriptions to keep my film a surprise

So that's it!  Look forward to my next film, coming in April...

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Timing and Space-ing

For this week's animation assignment we were assigned two random words to incorporate into a scene, and we were encouraged to use a character from our films. My words were 'quick' and 'glossy'. This is the current design of one of my film characters, though it may change, but it was fun to animate. I am also experimenting with the coloring workflow I will use in my final film, and seeing what kind of look I can get from my rough, non-cleaned up drawings.