Two Farewell Films: Unicycle Joe and Kaboom
Late last month, we profiled a few final films from graduating Sheridan students. Since then, two more bubbled up, and the first is by Alan Cook and Philip Rodrigues. Eight months in the making, Unicycle Joe is the story of a boy with a unicycle leg. The film was animated entirely in Flash, and composited together in After Effects with Photoshop backgrounds. When you’re done, get an eyeful of the color script at Alan’s amazing blog.
Next up is kaBOOM, a short by Jordan Lamarre-Wan that features an unusual trio competing in a drag race. Jordan teamed up with Brian Seligman who composed and performed the original score. A big batch of development art is available at the film’s website kaboomfilm.com, and you can see Jordan’s animatic (or Leika) at his blog.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Thats really impressive. Congrats on managing to defeat flash’s predisposition to make everything look rigid and plastic. A very original character too, so much so, that i almost wanted to see little unicycle joe use the wheel more prominently. Its still a jaw droppingly pretty and polished looking piece. Thanks for sharing!
May 7th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Wow. Fantastic art direction and all. I want to see more adventures of Unicycle Joe!
May 8th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Very nice work! The one thing that bugged me in both films was the way skewing and squashing and stretching was used. It was clear both films were animated in flash because of that for the majority.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:08 am
O wow, those were great. Nice smoke effects on the Ka-Boom short. Both were excellent. Congrats to all involved and good luck in the future.