Sheridan Seniors’ Final Flash Films
This is a great time of the year for animation junkies like myself. The various animation universities are wrapping up the school year and the web is flush with fresh final projects.
Last week we highlighted Andrew Ferguson’s film, and today we’ll have a look at two other Flash shorts that emerged from Sheridan College’s animation program. Both make little use of Flash’s ability to re-use drawings, and the results look very full and “traditional.”
Mujia Liao’s graduation film is titled One on One, which focuses on a little girl’s battle against a mountain of a man in a starring contest.
Ewen Nguyen produced Persephone’s Flight using Flash, Photoshop and After Effects, and it features the story of two birds, a snake and motherly love.
Ewen wrote up a detailed project history, credit list and self-critique on his blog. Congrats to Ewen, Mujia and the rest of the graduating seniors at Sheridan!
May 1st, 2008 at 4:44 am
Impressive work from both filmmakers. ‘One on One’ is very funny and the backgrounds and character designs are awesome.
‘Persephone’s Flight’ is a wonderful short. I especially like how the ‘dialog’ was handled. Great character design and backgrounds. Ewen says in his self-critique that’s he’s not much of a painter but I’d never be able to tell. After reading his critique I watched the short again and I still don’t see the problems. Perhaps any ‘mistakes’ are disquised by a story well told.
Looking forward to seeing more from these talented filmmaers.
May 1st, 2008 at 2:56 pm
i love it when you post work like this, thanks!
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Those were both great. I wished that they put out student work collections.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Hey all,
Great to hear good buzz around our film! There were a lot f films created in flash (including my own, Unicycle Joe) – with varying styles and approaches. Some used symbols and Tweens, others animated completely traditionally, and oftentimes, the films that did were virtually indistinguishable from the pencil-on-paper films.
There’s no guarantee that all the films will go online, but some of the flash films that come to mind are Alex Cote’s “Scorbu”, Jeff Allen’s “Bindle Stiff”, Robin hall’s “bubblegum bullet”, Marko Bajic’s “Space Cowboy”, Jordan Wan’s “Ka-boom”, Karen gunter’s “Spelling Pee”, Tobias Kwan’s film (no title really), and a handful more that I’m sure I’ll be mad I forgot to mention.
All around really great stuff and I’m really proud of our year.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I forgot to mention that the range exhibited from the shorts this year just proves that flash is just another tool, and it is completely up to the artist how it is used.
Make sure to keep a heads-up for the films to come!
May 7th, 2008 at 7:27 am
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