Premiere Buttons

So today I put together the photos for the buttons that we will wear at the premiere.  They turned out pretty well and I'm excited to see them turned into actual buttons!

New Poster

Today our poster was put up on display in the main lobby of our building!  All the new posters look amazing and it will be nice seeing them every morning on the way to class!  

Soon to come

We now have our beautiful new credits thanks to our director, Trey Buongiorno, and they look amazing!  Also, me and the other assistant director, Kelsey Binninger, have started working on creating a website devoted to all things ember so stay tuned for exciting things!

Submitted!

We did it!  We met the SIGGRAPH deadline and submitted to the character animation festival at 5:55am this morning.  I am so proud of team Ember for sticking to our deadline, meeting it, and creating one amazing animated short!  The rest is smooth sailing until the premiere on April 22nd.  I'm so excited!

Ember's embers!

So since animation is currently done for SIGGRAPH, I have been helping out in the creation of the embers that will emit from Ember's body throughout the entire film, and they're looking pretty cool.  Turns out effects work is a whole lot of guessing, yet still enjoyable.  All things appear to be running smoothly as we approach our deadline, so fingers crossed!

Animation Deadline

Today's the day!  We finally finished all the animation for the film and I am beyond excited!  Everyone on the animation team really stepped it up these last few weeks and spent quite a few long nights pushing out some great animation.  I can't wait to see all of the shots rendered and looking beautiful!  March 5th is the SIGGRAPH deadline and I'm proud of our team for actually being able to reach that goal. :D  I can't wait until the premiere to show everyone our film, but for now, here's a screen shot of one of the shots I animated! 

...and some pictures of our impressive animation chart full of gold stars because we're awesome

End of the Semester

Well I haven't really kept up with this as I first intended to, I guess it comes with being so busy all the time I just don't get around to it.

First off, somewhere between the last post and now, I was given the title of lead animator on our film, along with one other person in our group, and I am just ecstatic!

Also, in the last post I mentioned that the Junior class had presented their stories that they would possibly be working on for the next year and a half.  They recently had their final presentation and the two stories were selected, they were all pretty good and I can't wait to see how they end up creating their amazing stories.

On the Ember front, things have been hectic as always.  We have come to the end of the fall semester but that definitely doesn't mean we get a break really for the winter holidays.  I mean, we technically do have a break, but we will be working like crazy on our animations for our film since we want to get it done by the first or second week of January.  Also, since I am one of the lead animators and I have a very short attention span when trying to work from home, I will be going into the studio for the majority of the "break".  I am looking forward to it though, seeing as I want to be an animator somewhere in the industry after I graduate, I do enjoy it quite a lot.

Also, we have a few test renders of our film and, if I do say so myself, they are looking quite gorgeous!  Our team is full of extremely talented people who know how to make our movie come alive.  I'll have to get a copy of some of the frames and post them up here for the world to see, even if the world doesn't look at this blog... :)