STUDIO 10: FISH & Chopsticks

A ROTTEN HABIT short

2007-04-27T23:21:00.000-07:00

ROBERT KIM's REEL

2007-02-04T08:06:00.000-08:00

SUPER E LEICA REEL...

2007-01-12T22:00:00.000-08:00

Ewen's Edit of the leica reel. Great work cutting down the time for acting. It reads much better.

layouts again!

2007-01-12T12:25:00.003-08:00

Huzzah a post on the blog by me. anyway this is one of a few layouts i have been testing at home using charcol and such i hope to post a few of these over the weekend. let me know what you think so far guys since this is only a rough and can be pushed stylistically in any direction we choose.

ROTTEN HABIT LEICA

2007-01-03T20:11:00.000-08:00

Destination Moon Gordon Clark - Wildbrain.com

2007-01-01T14:24:00.000-08:00

this is a commercial by gordon clark of wildbrain animation studios (wildbrain.com)

I posted thi for the reason being the animation on the house and i thought since we should be thinking about animation and making this an entertaining short as well we could think to use this to really make it a strong animated piece. So heres reference and Ill jus story sketch the drawings. Besides, we're students and still learing and this for those who love animation could use this as an oppurtunity to learn more, and for those intersted in story boarding , to remeber to think outside the box when drawing for animation...(if that makes sense :-) )

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

2006-12-24T20:50:00.000-08:00

Nightmare on Lascar St.

2006-12-24T15:47:00.000-08:00

..naw this is a Lascars Ep. that has some interesting shots and layout style (colour) in the sequence where the characters gets high. f you don't see it or invision it then at least enjoy it

:-)

2006-12-21T21:16:00.000-08:00

Concept Layouts

2006-12-11T13:09:00.000-08:00

Concept layouts for the "Kid's" bedroom.
Top: Robert Kim (Roboto)
Bottom: David Tran (Dr. Tran)

Earlier versions of the cavity fairy

2006-12-10T17:32:00.000-08:00

Poor Bogo

2006-12-09T20:40:00.000-08:00

I sent a friend our completed animatic and he reminded me of this film.
It has some parallels with A Rotten Habit that are quite interesting.
Watch Poor Bogo by Thelvin Cabezas

Kid character revision

2006-12-03T08:53:00.000-08:00

trying to tighten up the Design and proportions and make it "animateable" While keeping the personality.

SAY IT WITH ME.....

2006-12-02T09:47:00.000-08:00

SERENITY NOW!!!!!!

Character exploration

2006-11-25T09:30:00.000-08:00

Old Cavitiy Fairy and Fairy Exploration Dump

2006-11-18T10:21:00.000-08:00

CANDY CANDY CANDY!!!

2006-11-05T11:01:00.000-08:00

Images provided by Corbis.com

INSPIRATION!...I hope

2006-11-05T07:11:00.000-08:00

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GUYS...don't be afraid to to take what we now have as a rough script and extend your imagination. Build a world that best fits our terrible trio. This is how I think design wise....................

If our sleeping candy sucker is such a candy junkie (and this being a cartoon) how would his world be.....hhhhmmmmmmm....FULL OF CANDY! LOL So think candy. I got refs for candy and I just tried to explore that idead.

Disclaimer -- (im not pickin on anybody im jus randomly thinkin of things id say to people i might not have said because I was never good at public speakin)

Rob Kim-- If you want a direction for colour for our boys bedroom get some pics of candy wrappers and look at how they use colours to compliment their product. Even the films colour palette should revolve around candy (I think as a direction when stuck)

Rob B - - When thinkin props for the kid think candy. When thinking of props for the tooth fairy and cavity fairy , believe in them ...shit even be them and think. "what the hell would MY plier look like ....What would my crown look like"...

Steve -- Loving your take on the story sketches and boards and keep thinkin whose view are the boards sequenced and how would it look.

Dave -- Dont stop crankin out those layouts and ideas. Keep em coming you machine of a man.

Arezoo -- Keep pushing your characters personalities for you are DEFINETLY on to something benficial for our characters. and a great inspiration.

Rye -- Keep airing out that story so its so tight the audience holds their breath in anticipation from beginning to end. You'd be surpirsed how many people can't hold thier breath for two minutes but im sure you can make em do it effortlessly.

Ewen -- Glad you like the sit down session our group had the other night hopefully it wont have to be that late anymore. But whatever it is abou this film so far that you like pump em out in the meantime between time and dont be afraid to show your ideas. Youve fixed alot of problems in terms of storyboards and story dont think you arent an asset

Lara -- You too! Very nice painting for layout class and if thats where your "h - art" lies besides tryint okeep things organized than give it a go. you want to colour some stuff on the side then go for it. every little thing counts as long as there is meaning behind it.Remeber: Don't do things just because.

Andre -- Get over yourself and do some ground work and show it dont say it.

The Good The Bad and The Ugly...Definately Ugly

2006-10-30T07:32:00.000-08:00

Layout Concepts

2006-10-27T23:11:00.000-07:00

Hello everybody! Recently Studio 10 has placed layout design concepts as the main focus for our film. We focused on abstract and lighting for the batch of layouts below using references from Brandon Scott (lighting) http://brandoblogo.blogspot.com/
Kim Possible http://savedisneyanimation.org/kpcaps/Site/Home.htm, Neds Newt and Powerpuff Girls (Design). We tried emphasizing the main focus of the scene with light and a higher amount of detail.
We had a "show and tell" of all the other concepts that we came up with today but I don't have the files so I can't upload them... Sorry! We discussed what worked and what didnt within the layouts and from the points made today, we are going to try a different approach. We are slowly approaching the final visual style for our film and it's looking good (in my opnion :D )

The Character Design Exercise

2006-10-21T09:35:00.000-07:00

The Idea, suggested by Stephen, was to get each member to design their own version of each of our story's characters (Kid, Good Fairy, Bad Fairy), and then pass the page onto the next person. The next person would then design the character again, based off the original drawing, and then pass it on, so the next person would have 2 drawings to pull ideas from, and so on and so forth.
With this method, we ended up with 243+ designs in about 3 hours (about 5 min. per sketch).

The following is the remains of that exercise, as we combed through the designs and picked out the best ones to develop further. Perhaps you will see those later. Also, I've reinserted Andre's designs - his cleanup is in the previous post.

The characters are shown in the order that we did them, and I think we were all getting worn out by the end of the Bad Fairy, haha.

I've tried to keep the sets together so you can see each member's influence. Studio 10: Please comment and leave any corrections or note which pages you started.

enjoy

The Kid
#1

The Good Fairy

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

The Bad Fairy

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

.....whew.

CANDY CANDY CANDY....

2006-10-20T19:18:00.000-07:00

as randomly relvant as this blog may get therefore not giving any bypasser any visually appealing charts, templates, pretty portfolio covers, posters or fancy film title names.....

nothing makes me prouder than knowing that Im in a group of 9 where each member has gone through some character development throughout this films progress, through meeting and "quality time" so that way we can walkaway with a beautifully polished and ziplock fresh short that we can look back on and simply smile.

Color tests...

2006-10-12T18:59:00.000-07:00

I took Rob B's layout and colored it to get some ideas for the 'look' we're going for. More to come later (I hope?)

fairies

2006-10-10T21:56:00.000-07:00

Layouts

2006-10-10T00:02:00.000-07:00

A layout design for the film. I focused more on the style and playing around with it. I tried a flat style and then popping out the objects/items the character would interact with. Everything that isn't used I just leave as flat. Sorry for the messy lines.

FOR YOU RYE...

2006-10-09T15:35:00.000-07:00

Concepts for the ugly fairy...no one said it couldnt be a man...a very ugly man.....but thats why i gave him some masks options....NOW HES SCARY AS HELL.

Boy in court

2006-10-06T22:22:00.000-07:00

Some art for another story concept we were about to go with...but we didn't. Posting it anyways because it was fun to draw!

2006-10-05T20:34:00.000-07:00

Tooth Fairy Rough Drafts

2006-10-05T13:14:00.000-07:00

These are story sketches and such suggesting that we take this idea to a more haunted , story for bad kids who dont brush their teeth sorta feel. But we couldnt find motivation enough for the tooth collector fairy to really NEED his teeth. But we got something even better now but i still have drawings for a Rough Draft #2 which will be posted in colour hopefully by Mr. Techni-Colour himelf. Robert Kim.

Tooth Fairy Kids

2006-10-04T22:19:00.000-07:00

My first set of concept stuff for the tooth fairy story we're working on now. Once again just playing around with 2d shapes in photoshop ^^;; Anyways me go sleep now

He Has A Dream, I Had A Dream

2006-09-29T12:11:00.000-07:00

...and so this will never get done.

2006-09-29T09:11:00.000-07:00

So today we all had a big group discussion and everyone gave a short pitch of their take on JACK AND THE MEAN STACK, well everyone except for Robert Kim (Robot) and myelf (RyE). Now before you start yelling about how RyE and the Robot are slackers, I should let you know that Robert pitched his version of the MONSTER BACKPACK, while I pitched my take on TOOTH FAIRY REVOLT. After some discussion we decided in a vote of 6 to 3 for TOOTH FAIRY REVOLT. so now the deal is that everyone is going to go do some work on embellishing my pitch, pulling it apart, throwing it against the wall and seeing what sticks and what most definitly does not. It should be pretty awesome to see how people interpret the craziness I enthusiastically shot at them. Lets just say the league of Imaginary characters will be victorious.......or will they, thats up to my group. Anyhow let the creation of the film begin......AGAIN.

Mean stack concept stuff

2006-09-28T21:01:00.000-07:00

Just some quick design sketches for the smoke stack. I was playing around with shapes mostly, so this is not necessarily the style we're using. (if we go with the story at all)

Concept

2006-09-28T19:32:00.000-07:00

For Jack in one of my stories I had in my head.

Jack's Turnin Into A Jackass

2006-09-28T10:53:00.000-07:00

It seems Jack and the mean stack has given more than a few of our group members a headache trying to wrap our heads around a story that flows nicely with ups and downs instead of a common linear story.This week we spent hours trying to create, re create, create re create story ideas around JACK AND THE MEAN STACK. But it looks like Jack, his grandfather and that mean ol stack are gonna have some company by the likes of fairies, pirates, blocks, monster backpacks and characters of all kinds as our group pitches individually liked synopsiseseseseses. I dont mind and we should explore ideas and I guess it is the nature of the beast (animated short) to consume all it can in resources and shit out everything thats not good for it. Even Im thinking about jumping off the stack and imagining for fairy wings, or even easter bunny legs to start hopping or even, being accompanied by a lifeless roast turkey that saves me and the day (I hear you Rye). But we'll see what happens tomorrow for we have an intelligent group and as much as we're takin a step back we havent lost our momentum to think of something that'll be worth working on.

BUT....

Before I bail off the idea of a polluting chimney stack above are my visual concpets of an ol stubborn, and hyper active, glutenous, ginormous chimney stack.

Jack and the Mean Stack...

2006-09-26T14:29:00.000-07:00

This is our group synopsis each member will take and pitch the following Friday.....

The original synopsis for this was that there is a a town who has a ginormous smoke stack which clouds the town in a dark and unhealthy shroud, causing town's people to leave except for the ol inventor and his grandson. The ol' inventor creates a contraption for his grandson to go and regulate this smoke stack.....

This can be taken, changed, re-arranged in so many ways so Im lookin forward to seeing and hearing the different takes on it. The group effort and commitment to making this film worth while for everybody is intersting to see. Hopefully the momentum will keep steady pace or rise even higher.

FISH & CHOPSTICKS

2006-09-24T09:06:00.000-07:00

This year I am in my 3rd year of animation and I will be working with a very talented group of animators. Im very pleased to be in this group and the lack of egos is a surplus. I feel real confident that we will finish this year with a very funny, suspenseful, dramatic, cinematic film that'll have all the ingredrients of an enjoyable film...even if its about pencil pusher. Its a 1-2 minute film so every last scene has to be pushed further than the other until.....................................................................BOOM! CLIMAX!

This is going to be too much fun and thats what will keep this group together through all the long nights. As sappy as that may sound its creepy but true. So keep posted and Ill keep talking as if anyone is listening.I will be posting up their blog, deviantart, and other websites and community links.

P.S.

This is a blog that not only will be used by group members but will be a source that hopefully fellow bloggers can comment at. See anything worth commenting on? GO AHEAD! outside suggestions may not be a part of our final product but the critiques may always be a blessing in disguise as a motivator, or subtle push in the right direction. Our group consist of artists hungry for artistic knowledge and are open minded so C&C are always appreciated and talked over within our group.