Final Sheridan Thesis Film

Finally, the moment of truth. Here's my thesis film from my final year at Sheridan! I hope you enjoy!

 

Scramble, scramble...

Oh, hello blog, long time no see. I have been neglectful in updating over the past few months. I have been busy in film production, and the final stretch is just beginning, so I guess I'll take some time to post old progress from the end of December-January.

A couple finished scenes: (future tweeks may vary)

Sc. 5 Rough Progress


Completed version


Sc. 27 Completed as well.

And some colour concepts I developed over the Christmas break:





And I guess here's a few of the lesser awful drawings from my final life drawing class. Despite that, I shall miss it.

Beginnings of Production

Production has begun! My soul already hurts...


Layouts & Pose Test


3D character rotation, followed by a vector line sample of what it should look like in the film (minus shading).

Internship 2011... Om Nom Nom

Sorry for the lack of updates this summer. I've been busy... eating.



... Yeah, in all seriousness I've mostly been busy working at Smiley Guy Studios as part of my Sheridan co-op term, which effectively ended yesterday. However, they have decided to hire me on for the remainder of the summer. EXCITING!! I look forward to experiencing more of the industry for the additional six weeks.
So far it has been a great experience! They're a great company; friendly and strive to to the best job they can in animation. I'm happy I've been able to work with them, and efficiently learn how to animate using Flash, skills that I would otherwise be sorely lacking.

Working there so far, I mostly worked as a animator & scene planner on the second season of the TVO series Pillars of Freedom (the link will take you to view the first season on TVO.com; I worked on season 2, which will air in late October). It was a fun show to work on!

Back to the lacking art-related updates, yeah, the full time job hasn't left much time for abundant extra projects (tired-ness after work hours is also a factor). The above short cycle animation is pretty well the only finished (if you call that finished) product I have done all summer. While my work schedule will not change for August, I'm hoping to take more time to work on some other projects, more specifically my forth year film development. In between I'll try to work in some other small animation test to keep my arm loose and my mind sharp for the coming year. I will post anything that I do as it comes, hopefully it works out!

Sheridan 3rd Year - Group C2 Presents: "The Parachutist"

Here it is, Group C2's short film from 3rd year 2011 at Sheridan College, for which I had a part in developing (see previous posts for my contributions).

Enjoy!

Copyrights reserved to Sheridan College and group members, 2010-11

Uploaded by Noam Sussman.

Thanks to the rest of our team:
Caroline Hung
Kyle Mowat
Nicole Dubeta
Kirsten Whiteley
Frank Madden
Lisa Wang
Andrew Scott
Thomas Cunningham
Sam Amanfi
And our mentor: David Quesnelle

3rd Year Film: Pt. 3 - Animation

Finally, here's my animation for the film.

*Disclaimer* As referenced by the post below, I provided the layouts and paintings for sc. 30 where Doug (the skydiver dude) falls through the pink-ish cloud. Other than that the other animations have the rough, clean and coloured characters, as well as compositing done by me, but the evening sky layouts/paintings are by Lisa Wang.

Here's the scene process, from rough to colour:

Sc. 30:

Rough


Comp Test


Clean


Final Scene

Sc. 38:

Rough


Clean


Final Scene

Sc. 39-40:

Rough


Clean


Sc. 39 Final Scene


Sc. 40 Final Scene

And that's all from 3rd year. Our full film should be posted up somewhere soon. Once it's up, I'll set a link here.

I start my internship at Smiley Guy Studios in May, I am certainly looking forward to working in the actual industry. But from what free time I get, I'm sure I'll have more to post over the summer from personal busy work. Stay tuned!

3rd Year Film: Pt. 2 - Layout & Painting

The layouts and paintings I provided for the production.

Sc. 21 & 23



Sc. 21 & 23 shot tests:



Sc. 24-25





Sc. 24-25 shot tests:



Sc. 30


Sc. 30 shot test:



Sc. 7: *Painting and Shot test only.*
Original layout, line work, and character poses by Thomas Cunningham.

'Bout Time

I've been completely absorbed into ongoing school projects as of late, particularly that of the group film. Most of the other work I have been doing involve rigging the chef model from the previous post and developing my fourth year film (I have a pretty solid idea that I intend to develop fully). However, none of that has anything I can (or should) show, so I guess for now I'll share some of the work I have been contributing to our group film. All of the following is work I did, and therefore is permitted to be shown here.

Doug Animation Tests (former design):



My contributions to the current design pack, primarily layout:




Version 1:

Version 2:


And finally, without giving too much away about our story, a sequence of boards I did:










In related news, I got my internship placement this past week. This summer I will be working for Smiley Guys Studios in Toronto. I'm pretty excited to finally dip my hand into the industry!

Almost mid-term, I'll be back with more soon.

3rd Year Production Thus Far

Sorry for the lack of updates so far this year. We've been busy with early production art for the semesters two primary projects: the action analysis assignment (AAA) and individual idea pitches for the 3rd year film story (pitching is on the go, the groups will vote their story choice within the next couple weeks).

The following is some of the preliminary concept work and leica reel for my action analysis. The action analysis I chose involves 'pulling a prop' and a bit of dialogue, which the scene will be fully animated, cleaned up and coloured by the end of the semester. As well, we need a camera movement and final layout, which in my case is separate from my actual action. Hope you enjoy the process art.

AAA Leica - First Version (yes, that's my voice over... silly ain't it?)


AAA Leica - Revised

*I'll likely add sound effects to this soon


Preliminary Colour Scheme



Scene 1 Workbook & Shot test



Scene 3 / Action Analysis Workbook

This next bit is work I've done for my 3rd year idea pitch. Under usual circumstances I would be unable to post work from the film due to group effort and secrecy. However, this year the process is different than previous years in that each student comes up with their own idea to present before the group chooses one for the film. So therefore, what I have to offer at the moment is my own original work for my film idea.

The premise is about a monk who is bothered by noise. I think an interesting art design could certainly come out of this if it were to develop further.




With the pitch over at this point, story revisions are in the works. I'm trying to complete some colour keys to help reinforce the revisions and the existing story to help sell it once again come voting time. I'll post the colour keys over the next couple weeks, provided my film idea is not the one picked.

Other projects are in the works as well. More to post soon.