there is is! http://vimeo.com/11358941 !!!!

I finished my animation!!! It is uploading on Vimeo and I'll post it when it is done in a few hrs....

I'm pretty happy with it although I'm bummed because my friend wrote this beautiful score for it and I ended up not having the right equiptment to record the audio so I had to get instrumentals off line...which i'm actually pretty happy with. This film is actually redic and I'm not expecting other people to think its anything special as its kinda just a sentimental thing for my friends and I. Also, I had to submit it for student screening and my original credits were WAY to long...so thank you: Jordan M Monia M Dylan L for your attempted assistance and beautiful score. The feral cats of Malta And all of you that made my Malta experience what it was! xoxo

the start of my final project!

This is my friend Marbi. She is going to be speaking Finnish in my short and I animated part of what she says...it is in 1080x720 and this part is playing at 12 fps. (I don't know why it is squished here)

Storyboard.

POV shot of girl sitting at desk reading a book.

Close up of hands after girl picks up stack of postcards.

Girl flips over postcard and reads it, then flips to the next one and repeats.

storyboard.

Tilt up from hands to rest of desk.

Collage of pictures and Malta map on desk.

zoom in on Malta map in collage on desk.

Production Schedule

March 18 -put together audio track and finish drawing/rotoscoping one persons audio section.
March 25 -finish drawing/rotoscoping 2 more people's audio sections.
April 8 -finish drawing/rotoscoping last two people's audio sections.
April 15 -beginning and ending clips drawn/rotoscoped.
April 22 -final project exported and posted

Final Project Treatment

Last spring I studied abroad on a small island nation in the European Union called Malta. This experience had a profound impact on my life, and since I have been back, I have wanted to make a film about my experience. When I was looking through one of the many postcards my friends from abroad have sent me the other day, I came across one which my friend wrote to me before I left. At the end of the letter, she wrote, "P.S. Imagine writing down every funny incident or thing we've said....that would be the best book ever!"

In the spirit of that letter, and my experience, I am having five of my best friends from abroad send me audio of them reading what they would write on a postcard to me. I am going to use that audio to tell a story, animating by way of drawing/rotoscope with my new tablet. I think it will be something similar to Mark Craig's Talk to Me.

I want to start my film with me sitting at my desk by a window. It will be raining outside, and I will open a box off of my desk with pictures and postcards in it. Then you will see my hands flipping through the postcards and hear my friends reading parts of them. They will be read in English, Italian and Finnish. Some parts of the postcards will be animated like a really short movie clip, and some will be rotoscoped postcards. The end will finish by zooming in on a picture of some of us, or a map of Malta.

As I stated earlier, I plan to draw/rotoscope my project with my tablet, and I will use after effects for a looping background of the desk. I believe that my film will be over one minute, because I feel that I will be able to tell my story better with some more time, however if time does not allow for this, it will be easy for me stop at a minute and the story will still make sense.