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.
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!
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).
Jamie Gallant, an animator living in Ontario, Canada, is using Flash in a non-traditional way to make - well, traditional animation. He’s animating frame-by-frame without symbols or stock art. This graduate of Sheridan’s Classical Animation Program thumbnails a few key poses on paper, scans them into the computer and retraces those to get started. Then he creates his timing chart in Flash and starts drawing with his Wacom tablet.
Here is Jamie’s latest entry into the 10 Second Club. The audio is from The Shining
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.
