Nobody said it’d be easy making a film during compounding global crises To say that this year has been difficult would be an...

This is another posts unrelated to the Monster Roommates short. Over the course of the fall semester I've been working with my...

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post talking about a new version of our third and fourth sequences That included a cute little houseplant...

Well, I've animated my first shot on the short film. This was a big first step in what will likely be the most difficult part of...

Over the course of the last month we split up the task of creating a 3D layout animatic for the short, based on our storyboard animatic...

As I thought more about the monster remains story, one scene that has always bothered me is the scene where Aldo is sitting on the couch...

Since we decided on our cast last spring we’ve focused most of our character design efforts on our monster characters. They required the...

This is a bit of a diversion from the normal programming that I have here on the blog, because this actually has nothing to do with the...

At the end of last semester we had our first cut of what will be the Monster Roommates story. In its current form we knew that this story...

Here’s a quick update for Howard and Brett on what I’ve been working on since last spring!

About a week ago I had a really special moment as an artist and storyteller. Jasmine presented to the group the work she had been doing...

As our final deliverable for our preproduction class, we put together a 15 minute presentation that goes over everything we’ve done so...

This is the third version of our storyboard animatic, and the final one we will do for this semester. We had lofty goals of re-doing much...

I jumped in to help on some visual development for our set. Something that really makes our film possible is the fact that we really only...

Scribbling. Scribbling. Late into the night. Early in the morning. So much scribbling. The Covid-19 pandemic is making life pretty tough....

WHAT IF “HE” WAS A “THEY”? Up until fairly recently, our human roommate character was decidedly a male in his late twenties. We’ve been...

Our third monster has been the most elusive to create. We want a monster that contrasts Aldo’s size and bulk. Maybe one that’s maybe the...

You can’t say I’m not a character designer I would be the first to admit that I’m not very good at character design. I don’t have much...

After talking about this thing for over a month, we’ve made a big step in creating our first beat board animatic for the full film. It’s...

Greetings, dear reader! This is installment number two of my thesis short film production diary. I think the simple fact that this blog...