HIGHER EDUCATION

SCREENINGS:

15 SHORT FILM FESTIVAL - Charlotte, USA
Sunday, October 17th - 6:30PM - Evening Muse - Film festival
Festival Program - Film Information

REEL 2 REAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR YOUTH - Vancouver, Canada
Friday, April 16th - 9:30AM - Roundhouse Community Centre - Film festival
Festival Program - Film Information - Festival Schedule

2D OR NOT 2D ANIMATION FESTIVAL - Seattle, USA
Saturday, December 5th - 4:40PM - Film festival
Festival Program - Promotional post about Higher Education
Winner of a Golden Pencil Award for Student Animation!

SHORT SHORT STORY FILM FESTIVAL - Various sites, USA
Saturday, November 21st - 9PM - Film festival
Think Coffee
248 Mercer Street (@West 3rd)
New York, New York USA
Saturday, November 28th - 3PM - Film festival
Saturday, November 28th - 9PM - Film festival
Cable Car Cinema
204 South Main Street
Providence, Rhode Island USA
Festival Info - "Headtrip" Program

MOVING IMAGE FILM FESTIVAL - Toronto, Canada
Saturday, October 17th - 4PM - Giggleshorts Theatre - Film festival
Event Scheduling - Animania: East vs. West Showcase
Showcase Winner!

BOGOTA FILM FESTIVAL - Bogota, Colombia
Friday, October 2nd - 2:00PM - Teatro el Parque - Film festival
Tuesday, October 6th - 1:00PM - Biblioteca Nacional, Auditorio Aurelio Arturo - Film festival
Tuesday, October 6th - 2:00PM - Teatro el Parque - Film festival
Thursday, October 10th - 8:30AM - Teatro el Parque - Film festival
Festival Listing - Spanish Higuer Education - Hernando talks about the film

LA SHORTS FEST - Los Angeles, USA
Wednesday, July 29th - 3:15PM - Film festival
Film Program (The video link does not work)

JALLOO FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION AND GAMING - Miramichi, Canada
Wednesday, June 10th - Thursday, June 11th - Film festival

SHERIDAN ANIMATION SCREENING @ BLOOR CINEMA - Toronto, Canada
Tuesday, June 9th - 7PM - Theatric public screening
Wednesday, June 10th - 9:30PM - Theatric public screening
Mark's List of Films at the Bloor Screening - TRAILER

PRIVATE SCREENINGS @ SHERIDAN COLLEGE - Oakville, Canada
Thursday, April 23rd - 3-4PM S235 - Third year screening
Friday, April 24th - 2-6PM S235 - Open screening
Monday, April 20th - 9AM S235 - Test screening

... and more to come!!!
Good job guys!

3 more days!

Keep it going guys! It's tight but between the ten of us we can do it.

If you find there is anything you need to do your work which you do not yet have WRITE IT DOWN immediately! SPEAK TO SOMEONE about it asap about it so we can make sure it is in your hands for you when are ready for it. Thinking ahead here is key! It is essential for you to LET OTHERS KNOW.

Three days means you have one each for scanning, colouring, and compositing - so if the clean animation for any of your scenes are not done yet you best be juggling the work! Get others to help you and offer to help others. If you find yourself sitting around please ask your group members if they are in need of your assistance.

Communication is important here guys, let's work smart. We can pull miracles out of our rears and amaze ourselves with how much we can do when it's down to the wire!

...not that anyone has time to check the blog right now, hah.

Leica 10

Ecks Cleanup Tips & Reminders

1 - The top lip has that middle blob thing. I don't have the time to look the name up. But she has one. The pointy part of her upper lip is connected to the base of the nose with their construction, but don't completely connect the clean line to it.

2 - The nose is a 3 sided pyramid. NO NOSTRILS!

3 - The eyes/glasses are treated with the regular line weight - we all agreed it would be the easiest to keep it consistant. Two bags under the eyes, the line closest to the eye is the shortest.

4 - The eyebrows are treated like the hair. BUT make sure the two outer lines of each eyebrow are animated with care, mind your volumes. Fill the rest of the eyebrow shape with stray lines, just like the big hair strands. Any questions about this, don't be shy, I'm always around in the studio.

5 - The top of the head is flat, the hair part of her head starts at the 2/3rd mark. Her hair crosses on her forehead, it doesn't just meet at the center. Treated the same as the major hair strands.

6 - Ecks has 2 major hair strands on a 3/4 view. See design pack for other views.

7 - Ecks has a mole! On the left hand side of her neck, and coloured in with graphite. Try to make sure it doesn't float while animating.

8 - Her shoulders are covered by a short sleeve. It can be hinted at with a slight change of direction on the line. Remember that if you were to follow the line from her armpit down, it connects to the side of her boob.

9 - Her earrings are circular, but don't be afraid to treat them as ellipses if it helps to clear her face in an important shot if it was left as a circle, and especially during follow through.

10 - The line of the bottom of her face flows into her neck as a single line. Only add some overlap in there if Ecks is pulling her head into her shoulders in specific poses. Be careful with the chin, like the mole, that it doesn't float when animated. 

Her nails are also coloured in with graphite. Be careful about her hand proportions - her fingers should NEVER be longer than the plam of her hand.

Titles pt.2

http://www.ambergail.com/pp/TitleTest01.mov

RC to dl or play it off the server, makes no difference to me.
I did play with the "correction" of the title but it's my professional opinion that it looks stupid and eats up time.
Not the exact length of the scene, but I'm still going to play with how it fits with the surrounding scenes and the transition to and from black.

Hopefully this sparks a little more discussion! Don't make me email you!! Hah.

Titles and credits

I feel we should have a real discussion about this, however brief.

End credits - how do we want to do this? Who would we like to thank? Are they really going to be as long in the final cut as they are right now?

I would like to design them to match the titles.

This is what I have done up for the titles today -

Leica 8

Here is the Pose Test Leica.

The sound effects might be off synch in some parts

Why is she so happy?

BECAUSE IT'S FINALLY SPRING!

My e-mail got cut short because I pressed "Send" instead of "Save". Still had a bit more to say, but I didn't want to be flooding you with emails. Because I know I'll think of more. Also, we should all know about feeds since Wednesday's great demo.

Fifth is a reminder to remember those ABCs. As in, don't touch the Cs before you touch the As.

Sixth is a reminder that the pipeline is being supervised. If your roughs aren't in by end of day Monday, I'll want to know when they'll be in, not why they aren't.

Seventh is a reminder to have fun, of course.

Title sequences: the good stuff

Forget the film, watch the titles - SubmarineChannel

Lots of good quality digital video of animated title sequences on there. I'm browsing to research title design, I swears it!

Doesn't have much to do with our film, really... other than, like our film, being totally awesome.

The Danse Macabre in a form I can get behind.
I loves me some Gattaca and it pleases me greatly to read the only digital element of the sequence was for setting some type - suck it Dexter.
The obligatory David Lynch!!

Also, more for curiosity's sake than me actually wanting you to watch them - two more by Cuppa Coffee.

Scene 65 - poses, take 2

Scene 65 - poses from Mélanie on Vimeo.