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This is the animated end title sequence and animated sequences that I created for the 2012 film, Sunset Stories directed by Silas Howard and Ernesto Foronda. ‘Sunset Stories’ premiered at the 2012 SXSW Festival and stars Monique Curnen and Sung Kang, along with ‘Lost’s’ Harold Perrineau.
Created with After Effects and Photoshop.
Monique Curnen as the character May
A short film that documents our time this summer with our awesome Japanese exchange student, Yuu Kakehata. Yuu is a dance student from Tamagawa University.
Combination of live action and pixilation, stopmotion and time-lapse. Filmed with a Nikon and Canon DSLR, edited in FCPX and AE. Music by Jamiroquai and John Lennon. Summer 2012.
Lucky: Animated History Sequence from Giles Timms on Vimeo.
Working on updating my reel. This is the history animated sequence I illustrated and animated for Jeffrey Blitz’s documentary, Lucky, from 2010.
‘Lucky,’ Dir. by Jeffrey Blitz, 2010
Illustration, 2D animation, compositing (in team)
www.gilestimms.com/lucky.html
‘Lucky’ premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, showcased on HBO’s summer of documentaries and is available on Netflix.
Collaborated with Walter Robot on designing, illustrating and animating sequences for the documentary, ‘Lucky,’ directed by Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning Jeffrey Blitz.
Credits:
Production Studio: Walter Robot Studios
Art Director: Bill Barminski
Music: The XX
http://www.gilestimms.com/blog/film/animator-on-jeffrey-blitzs-lucky.html
WIP color comp cut-out character for a freelance animation project. Hand-drawn and edited, textured and colored in Photoshop. The character will be assembled and rigged in After Effects for cut-out style animation.
WIP drawings for a freelance animation project. The drawings will be edited, textured and colored in Photoshop and then assembled and rigged in After Effects for cut-out style animation.
The above image is a still from an animated sequence I created for the film ‘Sunset Stories.’ This still image shows the two main stars of the film, Monique Curnen and Sung Kang.
For ‘Sunset Stories’ I created animated end titles and animated sequences. Not all of the animated sequences made it into the final cut of the film, however, and the kiss scene and fight scene shown in this post were sadly cut from the film.
The fight scene with Monique Curnen and Sung Kang showing the live action still on top
The Kiss scene with Monique Curnen and Sung Kang showing the live action still on top
Sunset Stories premiered at South-By-Southwest (SXSW) on March 10th and is also playing today, Tuesday March 13th and tomorrow, Wednesday March 14th.
‘Sunset Stories’ is directed by Silas Howard and Ernesto Foronda.
My animated end title sequence and animated sequences for the film Sunset Stories is screening today, Saturday March 10th, at South-By-Southwest (SXSW).
‘Sunset Stories’ is a film about an OCD nurse who runs into her past while on route to pick up an organ transplant and the 24-hour journey she goes on to find all that she lost.
The film is directed by Silas Howard and Ernesto Foronda. ‘Sunset Stories’ stars Monique Curnen and Sung Kang, along with ‘Lost’s’ Harold Perrineau.
Above is a cutout animation character called ‘Chaz’ for the opening tile sequence that I am animating for the independent film, ‘Cooler’. I am also animating several animated sequences within the film.
This model sheet shows my cutout character design process and includes my initial character design hand drawn on paper with pencil, pen and ink, the cutout body bits colored and textured in Photoshop and the final character rig assembled in After Effects. I’ve also included screen shots of the cutout character in Photoshop (with the live action character reference) and the rigged character in After Effects.
‘Cooler’ is directed by Silas Howard and Ernesto Foronda.
‘Cooler’ on IMDB
I created several of the animated sequences for ‘Lucky,’ a documentary that aired on HBO last month.
The documentary, by Jeffrey Blitz, aired on July 19th as part of HBO’s summer of documentaries. ‘Lucky’ focuses on “chronicling the many, and often sobering, effects winning a big jackpot can have on a person” (Television review: ‘Lucky’ on HBO by the Los Angeles Times).
The above character design is Miss Lotto. She was one of the characters that never made it into the final cut. Miss Lotto is a very simple cut-out character composited and animated in After Effects. Miss Lotto was drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom, lightly textured in Photoshop, cut out and then all her girly bits were imported into After Effects.
Lucky premiered at Sundance 2010.
The above is a still from one of the animated sequences I illustrated and animated for Jeffrey Blitz’s new documentary, Lucky. Lucky premiered at Sundance 2010. I was fortunate to work again as an animator and illustrator with Bill Barminski from Walter Robot on this production and it was also great working with Jeffrey Blitz. I found Jeffrey to be a very intelligent and challenging director. The sequences were animated in After Effects, with the illustrations drawn and colored/textured in photoshop.
The reviews of Lucky have been positive and it seems people also liked the animated sequences, as this review from Scott Weinberg testifies “with nifty animated interstitials full of interesting jackpot stats.” You can read Scott’s full review here:
http://www.cinematical.com/2010/01/27/sundance-review-lucky/
I’m excited to see the full film. Please leave a comment if you’ve seen the film and let me know what you thought, thanks.