Update Time

I don't want it to appear like I have abandoned my blog so I'm going to try and get back into updating it more frequently.

Honestly not much has happened after completing my grad film. I have submitted it to the Ottawa Animation Festival and I will be submitting it to one in Calgary soon. I don't expect it to get into either one but you never know. I would really like to just put it up online in a few different places because it may have a better chance of finding an audience. But I will hold back on that for now and wait about a year before I go do that. When my film is online I will post it here.

I have been trying to rid myself of the art block I've had since 2nd year university. It feels like it is slowly lifting, but as soon as I think that, its back and I'm sitting here doing nothing. I've been taking a bit of a break since finishing my film to see if that would help, and to a certain extent it has, but it is going to be a slow process. Hopefully I will snap out of it while I update my portfolio this summer.

Anyways on a high note I won an honourable mention and a cash prize for a contest I entered earlier this year. The "Historic Steveston Contest" was launched to find an artistic pattern to use in a new scramble crosswalk planned for an intersection in Steveston Village: http://www.richmond.ca/news/city/stevestonscrambleartwinners.htm

And now for something completely different... I'm going to be selling work at UBC at an anime convention. MiniComi: http://minicomi.orangesanctuary.com/MiniComiInfo.html I will post some of what I will be selling once I finish them.

Online Booklet: The Making of Disconnect

Please follow this link to view the booklet: The Making of Disconnect

The page flipping sounds can be muted by pressing the volume button at the top of the page. Pages may also take a bit of time to load depending on the speed of your internet connection.
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On a side note, if anyone wants me to answer any questions about my film just post a comment or send me an email: fisk [dot] carolyn [at] gmail [dot] com

Complete

I'm officially finished my graduation film. I just attended our schools opening night for the graduation exhibit and it was my first time to sit with a large audience and watch all the films on screen. That was an experience. I think I'm still too stunned with the fact that I've completed everything to really express how I feel about the whole film making process. I also feel like I should have more to say about my film at this stage but I think I still need more reflection time.

Anyways, I created a booklet to go a long with my poster display at school and I was planning to put it together somehow online... I just haven't figured out how to do that yet. So I will just post a few pages from it for now, and figure how to put up the rest later:

If you have yet to see the graduation show and the animations from this year, here is some more information on the event: Degree Exhibition 2011

There is also an external show where you can watch all the animations from this year. This is a link to the facebook page. You may need to log into facebook to see it, but I will also list some information for it here:

Odds & Ends: 2011 ECUAD Animation and Film External Grad Show

Saturday, May 21 · 11:00am - 4:30pm @ Van City Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver, BC

Come to Vancity Theater on May 21st for an afternoon of screenings from the 2011 Emily Carr University of Art and Design Animation and Film Graduates.

Event Schedule:
11:00 am - Doors Open
12:-00-12:30pm - Awards
12:30-2:00pm - Program A
2:00-2:30pm - Intermission
2:30-4:30pm - Program B

Tickets are $15 for both screenings or $10 for either Program A or Program B. They will be sold at the door.

Film Poster

Here is the poster for my film. I like how it turned out and it printed well:

Disconnect Trailer

Here is the trailer for my up coming film Disconnect:

Disconnect Trailer from Carolyn Fisk on Vimeo.

Sound By: Ozma Sound

edit:// I just checked my original file cause I noticed how dark this version was on Vimeo....Vimeo really bumps up the blacks. I may upload a different version later.

Sound Update

I forgot to mention here that I did find a sound designer to work on my film:

Ozma Sound

So now I can concentrate fully on colouring and compositing. I've also been having a hard time getting my rain particles to work the way I want them to in 3D Studio Max, but I hope I can solve this problem soon so I have enough time render and composite them.

The trailer for my film will be completed by Tuesday of next week so I will post it here as soon as I have time to do so.

Final Business Card Design?

Maybe my final business card design?

I censored my phone number and cropped out the bleed area so this is how it should look when it is printed. But it's not actual print size. The final size should be about 3.5 inches x 2 inches.

Any suggestions? I have very little time left to make edits.

EDIT//: Here is one without the stripe and the other image has a boarder:

EDIT2//: Boarder colour change and removed boards from other image again:

Doing My Own Sound

So I've decided that I will just have to do the sound for my film on my own. I have not been able to find another sound designer to work on my film "for free" and with little to no money left to spend on my grad film (let alone anything else), I'm just going to suck it up and do the sound on my own....with input and moderate help from sound technicians at the school. Later today I will pick up the recording equipment and start recording all the sounds I need for my film (sfx, foley, ambient, etc.). And then attempt sound design... Neat.

But the good thing is I've almost finished all my backgrounds. And though my character still needs to be coloured in for a more then a few scenes, I am hopeful I can find some more helpers to help me with that. So I should have enough time to fiddle around with the sound for my film....like 2 days maybe.....to which everyone will tell me isn't enough time. But at this point 2 days is pushing it for me. I'll be spending 2-3 days just recording all the sounds I need.

Most of the scenes that are still unfinished won't require too much composting because I have already done most of it while working on each background. Though I still have to create and render the rain to put into the city scenes :/ but I know how to integrate them when they are done. And I need to re-render a couple of scenes due to colour banding. And I really hope that our final films can be rendered with a codec other then H.264 because my blacks really die on that compression and everything begins colour banding....not a lot.....but enough to make things look like shit.