This project is a 3D animated short film about trauma and conflict and how memories can stay with us throughout our lives. I made this film for my parents, who grew up in a conflict zone and experienced similar events. Following the main character's development from early childhood to adulthood, the film tackles how memories and past events inform our present lives.

Thesis

Significance

Advisor: Robert Laplante

Work:

-Blur Studios (CFX)

-DreamWorks Animation (Trolls)

-MPC (Dark Tower, The Mummy)

-Ingenuity Studios (Taylor Swift)

-CoSA (Swamp Thing, SHIELD)

-Brainstorm (Woman in the Window)

-Alkemy X (FOTWD)

-Framestore (Electric Hummer)

Animation Pipeline

• Interviews
• Analysis

• Scriptwriting
• Storyboarding

• Music
• Asset Development
• Visual Development

• Animation
• Compositing

Research

Story Development

Preperation

Creation

Methodology : Research

Interviews

Analysis

Categories

Methodology : Creation Stage 1

Story Development

Storyboarding

Storyboards

Methodology : Creation Stage 2

Music

Asset Development

Artistic Style

Methodology : Creation Stage 2

Animation

Editing

Loving Vincent

In a story depicted in oil-painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

Loving Vincent is the world's first fully painted film. They painted over 65,000 frames on over 1,000 canvases. 

• how to write a story based on real events
• respecting peoples experiences
• project management
• animation pipeline



What I learned

Challenges

• working with an untested blender add-on
• dramatizing people's real experiences
• timeline
• render times