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Trailer for the upcoming Disney Ireland/Buena Vista production, Brendan and the Secret of the Kells. Looks pretty awesome... I love the designs and animation!


Board Revisions

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For the leica: clean board revisions. I'm splitting them up here by sequence so hopefully that'll make things a little less confusing. I didn't tone them, I don't know if that's an issue but I hope not. Let me know.

Seq 1
Seq 2
Seq 3

For your workbooking pleasure

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Storyboards from last semester, - right click and save as to download, you know the drill. It's a .pdf.

gouache

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Panting from exertion

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What I have done for the replacement for the end of the memory change. I think it could use a more broad action for the actual memory screening, but I guess at this stage that's more of a workbook decision. First two panels are just different options. Thought I'd show you all on here since I didn't print them out for the meetings.

Jump, match, and cuts on an action

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Just so there's no confusion on the matter -

Match cut: Joining two different-sized shots of the same scene (like a medium shot and a close-up) to create the illusion of continuity.
Action match cut: Type of match cut made on a movement. The movement “flows” across the cut, maintaining direction and speed.
Jump cut: Usually signals that time has elapsed or something has been omitted from scene.
Found here.

A shot transition that omits parts of an event, as if had ellipses (…) in plot
· Also a cut with too-similar framing
· Or with straight angle but different people (they look like they morph!)
It’s what you would do if you had no training in editing and just cut pieces of a story together
· It usually looks like a mistake!
· This is what iTunes does when it summarizes a game into 10 min!
· In the sixties, there was a wave of it
To avoid
· Zoom instead of cut
· Make the framing more different
· Use the match techniques
Foundhere.

And most importantly, a good example of what a match - or invisible - cut actually looks like when it is working.

Please be sure to watch, it is short.

... but there is always time for Five Minute Film School.

Heaven Sequence

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sequence specific tests

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Played around with using red when Ms. Ecks is yelling at the kid in the class... Thinking this would be a great opportunity to really screw with the layout in this shot (which I didn't do with my scratchy little wacom scribble - I'll do some on paper later on!).

Action Analysis for Ms. Ecks

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Smoking - Zelie
Trying to fly - Michelle
3/4 walk cycle - Cristian
Profile walk cycle - Angela
Take (from laughing to horrified) - Hernando
Laughing - Sheng-Han
Beating up a kid - Henry
Dialogue - Melanie
Expression Change (making a realization) - Alex
Dancing - Amber

An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

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A little something to inspire? Get our logs burning again?

http://www.brucemaudesign.com/incomplete_manifesto.html