Watch Emile!

My film, Emile, is up on Vimeo! You can view my film here through this link:

https://vimeo.com/95378337

Password: TMthesis14 (case- sensitive)

Enjoy!

Emile is FINISHED!!!

So I know it's been a while since I posted on my thesis blog, but its because I've been slaving away on my film, Emile, and as of last week, I'm finished!! Because of ownership right issues (the school owns our films), I'm not sure if I can upload my film to my blog yet, but I thought I'd upload some backgrounds and stills! All the backgrounds are hand painted in water color and all the animation is done in photoshop :)

I learned a lot working on my film since I did all the animation and art myself- quite tedious at times but so fun at the same time, especially painting all the backgrounds.  Of course, there is a lot I would fix, but in a year, I'm happy with the way it turned out, and I thank my fellow team, namely my composer, sound designer, and musicians, who helped this film come alive!

Picture Locked film!

Hi! Sorry its been a while since I posted, but its been kind of a roller coaster.  Anyhoo, thought id post my picture locked film! In terms of timing, that can't really be tweaked, but I will largely just be working in the visual aspect of the film from now till May!

A Kind of Kewl Shot

Getting into the nitty grits of the guitarist...It was kind of tedious animating this scene, but I got it done. Another close up to go.

Some Color Keys for my Last Sequence

I'm currently in the midst of animating my last sequence and I realize that I didn't even plan out the space or set or anything.  So before animating, I decided to do some color keys and rough thumbnail sketches of potential designs for the plaza that the final scene will be taking place in.  It helped a lot and now I feel more confident in animating.

Here are some thumbnails of how I wanted Emile to find the guitarist- or hear him- when they are in close vicinity to each other.  I like the one with the arches on the left column , bottom two.

Planning out the scene when it is a wide shot of Emile walking through the piazza to the guitarist.  I like the top one where there is a sliver of light connecting the two.

Trying to figure out color!! Since these will be water color painted backgrounds, I tried to make it look drippy, with really rich saturated colors...

Planning out how to animate the guitarist and how to best portray him- he will also look really watercolory.  

just a quickie sketch of the scene when he goes up to the guitarist and the guitarist is about to hand him his guitar.  

Guitar reference!

This weekend, I filmed my guitarist playing some songs so I could get some specific reference on the hands before animating the finals scenes when the boy meets the guitarist! He is an AMAZING guitarist, and just hearing him play was SO cool.  Here are some vids and photos!

Great Sound Design Inspiration!

After my teacher recommend I watched August Rush last spring semester, it took me a whole summer to finally get to it.  I finally watched it a couple months ago, and I wanted to post a few clips that I thought had some really cool sound design!!  I really like how the scenes turn natural sounds of the city or landscapes into a kind of organized cacophony, integrated slyly with orchestral music in the back.  Enjoy!

I thought this one was really cool in terms of their interaction with each other, which I feel gives a similar vibe to my film.