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.
Vancouver Film School’s animation program recently said goodbye to Pedro Eboli. But before he left, Eboli took 2 weeks to learn how to use Flash, and in the following 2 weeks he created this short below, titled A Pug’s Life. Congrats on graduating, Pedro!
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!
We featured Noel Belknap’s 2nd year Cal Arts short This World almost exactly a year ago, and she recently posted her third year film on YouTube. It’s titled Dead Meet, a tale about zombies, friendship and braaaaaaaiiiinnnss!
Andrew Ferguson, who is getting set to graduate from Sheridan in a matter of weeks, created this Flash-animated, Charlie Chaplin-inspired short titled The Street Magician. For those of you wondering, Ferguson is yet undecided as to what to do after graduating (studios: this is your cue).
Thierry Marchand created this Flash-animated short back in 2006 when he was a student at the French art school Gobelins. The film is titled Monstres en Boite, and it features well-executed action shots, inventive layouts and strong posing.
You may have seen his work before in the 3D realm. He was one of the artists who collaborated to create Oktapodi at Gobelins in 2007.
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.
