I'm wondering how exactly storyboard artists go about presenting a summarisation of their portfolio, considering I'm at a point now where I think I've got enough work behind me to put one together. It's worth looking into.
I completed some animation today that I'm happy with, which means I now have enough new material to justify a new showreel! The new content in this one is the run cycle in the second clip, a clip from my September "Do it In Ten" entry and the animation of my character, Sophia hitting her bear on the back.
I'm wondering how exactly storyboard artists go about presenting a summarisation of their portfolio, considering I'm at a point now where I think I've got enough work behind me to put one together. It's worth looking into. So the animatic for this year's first animation project is done! Xinyi Guo is working on the backgrounds at the moment, and me, Lewis Rogers, and Lie Yandi Leonard are working on various symbols. Ok, so the website for mine, Lewis', and Yandi's film, currently working titled "Is Your Fridge Running?", is up and running. At the moment the About Us page is still a work-in-progress, but now the blog's ready where you'll be able to follow the production more in-depth than I'll be posting here.
If you're curious to see the bare bones of a site that's there at the moment, head on over here. We've yet to dole out specific jobs between us - with the exception of symbol building and storyboarding (Lewis on symboling, me on storyboarding) - so that probably goes to show just how early days it is at the moment, but I'm fairly confident we can come out of this with something worth watching. At the very least, we'll get some new animation for our respective showreels. So, the new uni year starts Monday, and in the first 5 or 6 weeks, we'll be tasked with putting together a one-minute short. I'm teamed up with Lewis Rogers for our film (title pending, working title: "Is Your Fridge Running?"), and to give us a little head start on the time we have, I'm starting to put together the storyboard/animatic for it now.
The story follows a runner who discovers that the energy drink he bought has brought his fridge to life, and must chase it down through the city to get back his precious drink and the fridge that contains it. We're aiming to try and have it symbol-based, as that's what we've been told to expect from the industry (doesn't explain why all the CalArts films are still frame-by-framed, but still), which'll help speed up animation and keep things as consistent as possible. Experience on "Under the Weather" tells me that the head/face symbols will be the most important ones to get consistent. Once again, I've entered Show Me the Animation's "Do It In Ten" competition, this time on the theme of Space. One of my friends, Lewis Rogers, mentioned that he planned to think outside the box for his entry (not yet finished), so I decided to do the same. As you can see by the preview image, it's based around Tetris blocks, rather than the typical astronaut/spaceman theme that's run through all the other entries so far. So that should give it an edge this month. But we'll see.
"Under the Weather", the 90 second short I made with Rainy Days Productions last October-December time, is now available on YouTube for everyone to watch, so go ahead and share this on Facebook, Twitter, or your preferred hipster social media site. Hell, even tell people in real life about it, if you like it enough. In any case, here it is: |
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