Nobody said it’d be easy making a film during compounding global crises
Nobody said it’d be easy making a film during compounding global crises To say that this year has been difficult would be an...
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- Dec 20, 2020
The Present
This is another posts unrelated to the Monster Roommates short. Over the course of the fall semester I've been working with my...
- Nov 21, 2020
Plant Friend!
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...
- Nov 14, 2020
My first animation on Monster Roommates
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...
- Nov 10, 2020
Layout Animatic
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...
- Oct 24, 2020
Story Update: Aldo and Plant Friend
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...
- Oct 20, 2020
If the monsters are the roommates then what does that make the humans?
Since we decided on our cast last spring we’ve focused most of our character design efforts on our monster characters. They required the...
- Oct 3, 2020
It's a story about a dog.
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...
- Sep 30, 2020
Monster Roommates Story Update
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...
- Sep 19, 2020
Production!
Here’s a quick update for Howard and Brett on what I’ve been working on since last spring!
- May 10, 2020
On Creating
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...
- May 9, 2020
Monster Roommates Preproduction Summary
As our final deliverable for our preproduction class, we put together a 15 minute presentation that goes over everything we’ve done so...
- May 5, 2020
NOW That's What I Call Storyboards Vol. 3
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...
- May 3, 2020
So fresh and so clean, clean...
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...
- Apr 25, 2020
Story Update
Scribbling. Scribbling. Late into the night. Early in the morning. So much scribbling. The Covid-19 pandemic is making life pretty tough....
- Apr 12, 2020
"People are just people, who need animals, and a nice place to live"
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...
- Apr 8, 2020
"I'm Batman"
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...
- Apr 5, 2020
Aldo, The Abominable Shrub
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...
- Mar 29, 2020
Our first animatic! You can't say it's not a short film.
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...
- Feb 26, 2020
It's a monster thing... I think.
Greetings, dear reader! This is installment number two of my thesis short film production diary. I think the simple fact that this blog...
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