This page I want to dedicate it to my first animated short, Fantasia Taurina. Looking at it know I realize I want to do it all over again, with better animation, color, shapes, composition, video quality etc...
This space is also to remember my teachers and friends at Vancouver, one of the most beautiful cities I have ever lived in.
Picture coming soon.
Traditional Animation is my life dream, drawings that move is the best idea ever. I think I love a rough sketch that shows movement and feeling more than a very well rendered realistic painting. Not that I don't love those as well, but the idea of instant motion in a sketch is forever wonderful to me.
Here at Vancouver Film School is where I had my first animation teachers : Dieter Muller, Moose Pagan, Marv Newland, Peter McAdams, Wayne Morris, Nuranee Shaw, Brigitta Pollanen and Trent Larson. And I got to meet him briefly but I know I owe him a lot as well, Joe Gilland.
In the one year Animation course at VFS I learned so much and it was the first time I took a real serious art classes. First time I took a figure class, I learned so much about perspective drawing thanks to Gideon Flitt a very cool and talented artist, which I feel bad I didn't thanked on my credits :(
And I want to mention some of my fellow classmates form VFS and put in some links that I can find from their work. Coming Soon.
But this little (not HD video quality short) was mentioned in the book Ideas for the Animated Short by Karen Sullivan (my Prepro Instructor at Ringling College), Gary Schumer (both my Concept and 2D Animation instructor at Ringling as well) and Kate Alexander (Florida Studio theater).
I didn't know but six years after leaving Vancouver and finally deciding to learn computer animation at Ringling College, I met all three of them. This was a big surprise for me, but it is a small industry after all. And I have learned tons from these 3 wonderful people as well.
Here is a link and some pictures for Ideas for the Animated Short
I have the older version, there is a new one that looks pretty amazing.
http://www.routledge.com/cw/sullivan-978024081872/s1/films/
And on this other link you can see a video where Kate talks about psychological gestures, featuring super talented and fellow Ringling College graduate Brooke Wagstaff. Watch also her thesis film Missing U, one the best animated short produced at Ringling.
http://www.routledge.com/cw/sullivan-978024081872/s1/acting/
And here is Fantasia Taurina
Mi corto animado producido en Vancouver Film School en el 2003
My 2D short produced at Vancouver Film School on 2003
Sketches done during it's production. I chose to use watercolor media in my background paintings and sketches because I love the feel of storybook and Disney movies like Pinoccio, Fantasia and a more current at the time was Lilo and Stitch. But off course the biggest inspiration was Ferdinand the Bull.
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