ANNAMATIONS

Here is a low quality version of the short made in the second term of the MA by me and two other students, Sarah Hale and Justin Kent. Though a lot of difficulties with transferring data from XSI to Houdini, the result turned out pretty close to what we aimed for.

I was responsible for the visual look of the film (character design, storyboards, colour scheme) and shared the modelling, texturing, animation and rendering with Sarah and Justin. The idea is based on the Native American Legends of the Dreamcatcher, which allows good dreams through and captures nightmares which perish with the sun’s first light.

Storyboards I made for our group project 3D short, Dreamcatching. Team members Sarah and Justin liked the general concept and colour scheme so I took the task of a sort of an art director since we all worked on developing the story and all sections of the film.

Drawn in pencil and coloured in Painter - using a wacom and digital paint was new and exciting to me so i got carried away and coloured all the storyboards, which helped to keep in mind the look, lighting and colours we were aiming for.

dream-boards1

dream-boards2

dream-boards3

My BA graduation film, thanks to divX you can watch it in full screen and good quality here:

Synopsis:A story about a little girl, Felicity, and her peculiar games. In her creative hands, her toys become special and individual, and always seem to resemble the new pet of the house. Tragically for the Cat, he ‘mysteriously’ suffers the same consequences as Felicity’s new toy.

This short 2D-animated film plays between the co-existence of both a sweet and dark element, creating an amusing situation with shocking consequences, thus reminding us that not everything is what it seems to be. A visual commentary on the loss of innocence in modern animation.

These are some stills from the final short film - of my final BA year - until i manage to upload the actual film:)  

film stills

My BA final year major project was a short 2D animation, Petrified. With a team of two second year animators, an illustrator (for the painted backgrounds) and film students specialising in producing, editing and sound we worked hard for 8 months to realise an idea that i pitched during my second year - but which changed and was improved and developed by the team.

Below are some stills showing the main preproduction development:

my early storyboards, 

early storyboards 1

early storyboards 2

character designs for the two main characters,

Girl character design

Cat character design

development of the style of the film. 

basic room layout in XSI

Room concept in ink

Early production still

Final film still

These are some backgrounds I painted for Joe Bor’s graduation film My Third Arm. My first involvement in an animation team, during my first year. Although by the end of the 20 paintings I was sick of burnt umber and yellow ochre, it was a good experience and the film was shown, nominated and awarded in various competitions and festivals.

My Third Arm forest

interior1

interior2

interior3

You can view the animated short here.

Paintings were all done using acrylics. Layouts by Joe Bor.