#student film
Hey all! Sorry I haven’t been posting much–this is my last semester at SJSU and I’ve been busy working on a short film with my friends! I’m super pumped to share this teaser trailer with you all! We’ve all poured our hearts into this project and we’re looking forward to sharing the full film with everyone! Thanks!
T’S HERE! Our crew is launching a kickstarter campaign through the next month to raise funds for a composer, software licenses, and more. Check the link below for more info and to check out the awesome rewards you can get with your support!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kaerushortfilm/kaeru?ref=creator_nav
Hey all! We just launched our Kickstarter for our animated short film! Follow the link to help support our project and get some super cool backer rewards! Reblogs and signal boosts are much appreciated! Thanks! :)
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The Kaeru Crew is excited to share our animated short film with you! Look forward to some big news coming soon on our social media accounts! Find us on Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook!
IG: @KaeruShortFilm
FB: @Kaeru
Twitter: @KaeruShortFilm
You can also contact us at [email protected]
Hey all! It’s been pretty quiet here on my tumblr, but that’s ‘cause my friends and I have been hard at work on an animated short film! We just launched all our social media accounts and have some big news coming soon, so give us a follow! We’ll be posting behind the scenes tidbits, art, and updates regarding our film! Thanks so much for your support!
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Life of a Storm is an animated short film created for my senior year project. Animation by Eric Bedwell.
Music “we’ve never met but, can we have a coffee or something”, by In Love with a Ghost. Song used with artist’s permission.
My finished senior animation project!
stills from my short documentary ‘rats on a coach’
watch here: https://youtu.be/xEwoS0hDPn8
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My first film project is out! I interview a Bristol musician, Matt. He talks about nerves, hypes up local venues and gives advice for new musicians.
Feel free to have a watch and sub to my channel for future short films!
Film oc stuff
Some screenshots from my first year film that is still in progress
Did a short film for school! @ is my instagram (no hs there tho sorry!)
Speak of the devil - we officially won the Student Film category in the New Media Film Festival.
We also got Semi-Finalist for the New York Animation Film Awards back in June (I got confused about the laurels and didn’t know what they meant at the time)
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Animated shots I did for my 2019 student film “Red Earth”. I’m more comfortable doing small movements and subtle expressions, as you can see from the numerous frames of not much going on.
Our lead animator Tonia did the heavy lifting with the more action-orientated shots as well as the fire (literal powerhouse animator, go follow her on Instagram @toniaciccone_art).
The film itself is about a Wallaby witnessing the birth of a bushfire while looking for water/food during a severe drought, or as the logline puts it:
“A monster born from the climate crisis rains down the fires of hell upon an innocent wallaby.”
Average fun stuff. I made it in response to Australia’s complete disregard to environmental policy and its climate-denying, coal-loving culture. Surprise surprise we had one of the worst bushfires in our country’s history soon afterwards due to longer dry seasons and government incompetence (I could rant all day about it but moving on).
Initial concepts for the projects. That last one was a Bob Ross painting exercise but I made it into concept art to get the point of dread across for the class. The idea for the art direction was to get the innocence of Winnie the Pooh’s plush-like animals and contrast it with the negative themes of the story blah blah blah.
I’d upload my initial storyboards for the film here as well but we (as in I) lost them after a file purge of the project’s g-drive to make more room for animation files. Thought we had all of our files backed up prior to mass deletion (we didn’t). We still have Tonia’s refined boards however which is nice.
Anyway below are the beat boards I did during development + bonus Hero Image.
Because of Covid-19 a lot of festivals that Red Earth was submitted to were either cancelled or postponed, and the relevance of the Australian Bushfires dwindling in the public consciousness made Red Earth sort of forgotten pretty quickly. Still, I’m happy we made it and it gives us all good portfolio material.
The dialogue is complete shit but it gets the point across and the animation/visuals are what really matters for us at the end of the day.
New Media Film Festival was one of the few festivals to pick it up and they currently have it on full display on their youtube channel. It’ll be a while before I can fully release it on my personal vimeo so if you got 3 minutes to spare have a watch below.
Trigger warning for dead animals and general environmental existentialism.
If you’ve just graduated as I have, let me give to you something that is guaranteed to hit you right in the feels… and if not, I hope to provide a few laughs to you anyway.
After many months of hard work, good times, and a screening at the Marist Silver Fox Awards, I am extremely excited to present my senior capping film to you, the internet! I hope you have as much fun watching “The 50 Yard Dash” as we did making it.
This quirky and silly mockumentary, starring two-time Silver Fox Award winner Kaitlyn Murphy, alongside Natalie Palter, follows a day in the lives of twenty-something undergraduates. With graduation quickly approaching, college roommates and best friends Lauren and Allie must come to terms with their post-grad lives going in opposite directions. Directed by Rachael Black and Devin Barbaro, this short film explores the pressure and emotions of four years of college coming to a close, reminding us that the most important thing we’ll take away from our higher education is the memories we’ve made.
Looking for a composer & sound designer for my graduation film! The story is set in a 3rd grade classroom in India (Indian designers will be given preference). If you’re interested, please email me at [email protected] with your rates and links to your work!
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CURSED! My 4th year film Design Pack for the Sheridan Animation Program. This is the reason I haven’t been posting as much during the first half of the school year, making a film is busy work! Here are some finished and rough models all made by me and currently in development!
A Greedy Treasure Hunter bursts into a treasure room deep within a jungle temple where numerous skeletons reside. Will he leave with the grand treasure or fall into its trap!?
Coming April 2018!
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the Scared is scared
I had great fun working with the student team (plus a few industry peeps) led by Apol Thomaier at the Academy of Art University on their short, Monsters In The Dark! As always, Apol is dedicated to telling stories with meaning - this time focused on the trauma and hope of the foster system. I was responsible for modeling and texturing Lucas, the central character. They’re off to the film festival circuits now!
Sweater base mesh in Marvelous Designer; main sculpt in zBrush; hair cards in Maya; textured in Substance Painter
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At long last, here’s Adija! It’s been well over a year since my senior team completed our short film and graduated from Digipen, and in that time we’ve made it into 30 festivals and won six awards (so far!)
See our facebook page here for news regarding the film, and poke around in those photo albums for behind the scenes artwork. And most of all, enjoy!
RAIN (Coming soon - May 2022!!)
Spent some time noodling away at some environment thumbnails for my third year film pitch. I really want to pay tribute to my Indian heritage and celebrate it because it’s such a huge part of my identity!
Indian architecture was hard to understand at first but slowly it got more fun! I’m excited to study it more over summer!!
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Character models and some backgrounds for “UNREALITY”, a short I made last trimester for one of my advanced animation classes.
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It’s been a year, I’m done with festivals, and I’m finally ready to release my thesis film publically. It was a lot of work for something so short, but nevertheless, I hope you like it! (,,˘ᴗ˘,,)
Link to YouTube also! https://youtu.be/vL07XoFy6H0
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Ello Ive been gone for a hot minute…. Hope y’all won’t mind me sharing some personal art!! Been busy working on grad film n portfolio stuff :)
