The Line Productions

iLaugh

2007-07-13T07:12:00.000-05:00

So we've got another festival result in. Babushki has won 4th in March Enteratinment's. iLaugh contest.

www.ilaugh.com

-James

2007-06-25T18:47:00.001-05:00

So I've got some great news. Babushki has been chosen to be screened during the aniMOTION festival in Sigiu, Romania.

www.animotionfest.ro

-James

Maquette

2007-01-24T16:46:00.000-05:00

A maquette I made of Luba from Ian's turnaround. As for where the Line is now, we're working away at a final design for the film. Stay tuned :)

-bryden

Model Sheet

2006-12-19T16:22:00.000-05:00

Hey guys,

Sorry about the delay of the model sheets, hope they help. I will
continue to do more for the design stuff right now I'm doing the building to
complete that first picture I did with the texture in the bg.

-Ian

Keep working on drawing the characters during the break guys. Lets not waste this winterbreak.

-Dan

3rd Year Studio Floor Plan

2006-12-19T08:46:00.000-05:00

I took this from the construction worker while they were on breakfast break. It was scanned and returned within 5 min, Cachow!

Personally I think the layout is terrible for group meetings. Imagine having your meeting only to be interrupted by people walking in and out the aisle to get to their desks. not to mention the lack of personal space in comparison to the other studio we had where we could box our tables together. Oh yeah btw, they chained the desks so you can't move them, not even a centimeter.

Oh and tell me if this isn't a electricity hazard: 12 tables connected to each other, and the only supply for power is the outlet at the end of each row. How is one outlet going to have enough power for 12 tables?

-Dan

Luba Expressions

2006-12-19T08:34:00.000-05:00

Luba expressions that I did today.
The character design was done by Ian. I have 9 expressions for Galina too, it is being coloured right now.

-Dan

The expressions were based off this concept done by Ian

Final Leica Reel

2006-12-17T14:01:00.000-05:00

We did it guys, here is the Leica. We recieved a lot of comments and support, lets get this film done next semester! Many students from 2nd year and 4th year animation course wants to see this film DONE! Lets not disappoint them.

Special thanks to everyone in the group for pulling all nighters to board and tone the shots. Without your supports, we wouldn't have this awesome Leica.

2006-12-08T20:26:00.000-05:00

It's obviously been a while since we've updated. This last month and a bit has been fraught with story complications, and loads of work both film related and school related. But our lieca is done! HURAH! The screening is next week sometime... I think it's thursday. So for those of you from Sheridan I invite you to come and check it out. Those that aren't will have to wait till we post it... which should be next week sometime. :P

That's all for now.
-James

The Ladies

2006-11-09T00:47:00.000-05:00

This past week we assigned ourselves some character design homework. I thought I'd ditch the pencil and paper and do some rough character design concepts in some fabulous gray modeling clay! Everyone's designs looked awesome and while we don't have anything concrete yet we are well on our way!

-Bryden

Live Action Shooting

2006-11-07T22:54:00.000-05:00

The Line Productions shot our animation references today.

Thanks everyone for attending the live action shooting of our film. Ian and James, you two look halarious on tape. I will provide the video for everyone tomorrow. Bring your Hardrive/USB key!

-Dan

Just some funny scenes

New building idea

2006-11-04T19:50:00.000-05:00

The stuff me and james come up with on Sat. The layout floorplans are done too. Just need you all to contribute items and props. I HATE WINDOWS! So I just slop them on to get the rough idea.

2006-11-03T00:04:00.001-05:00

How to cope with death

This is probably one of the most impressive pieces of animation I've seen lately

-James

Colour Concept

2006-10-29T15:52:00.000-05:00

Storyboards Pitch

2006-10-24T22:43:00.000-05:00

The Line pitched the story to...ourself.....we all did our assigned section of the film. Some individuals went on to board the whole story.

We had so much fun pitching this story because everyone came up with lots of good gags. Thanks to everyone's contribution!

This is gonna be an awesome film!

Us setting up the storyboards on the wall.

Marcy....who is too shy to stand infront of her boards.

The exhausted me

Bryden, Shera, and Vadim

The ladies of The Line (Bryden, Shera, Christina, Marcy)

Vadim and his boards.

Dan and Christina. Huzzah to the painters.

James lecturing Vadim.

Preperation

The sound supervisor, Jimmy.

Shera and Christina fooling around.

Vadim pitching his boards to us.

Ian and Shera, busy commenting on our boards.

Jimmy pitching his works.

After the story pitch we decided to go celebrate. At.....

Anyhow, we were suppose to go have dinner together at an Indian restaurant but it was closed.

Instead we went to Jack Asstors.

Ordering our food

James, Jimmy, and Ian busy thinking about how to improve our film.

-Dan

2006-10-24T22:01:00.001-05:00

Ok this has NOTHING to do with our film but I think you should all check out this 3D water effect. It's mind blowing.

Colours Test

2006-10-21T13:24:00.000-05:00

Some colour tests, last panel was based on Marci's storyboard.

More storyboard colour keys on the way.

-Dan

2006-10-19T19:12:00.000-05:00

We just pitched our rough story thumbs to... ourselves and it went really well. As usual Dan has copiously documented the event with his asian shutter bug ways. I'm sure he'll be posting them up shortly.

-James

Story Boards Duedate Shift

2006-10-17T00:10:00.000-05:00

Due to large amount of workload due Tuesday. I believe we scheduled the storyboards to be due on Thurs OCT 19. Please make the deadline this time!

-Dan

Pre-Pitch Title Page

2006-10-11T01:03:00.000-05:00

The working title atm is "The Babywki" which (I believe) means "Grandmothers" in Russian.

Vadim our russian translator never left us with a clear spelling so if I have made a mistake on the poster please tell me asap.

The line work is done by Ian Cherry, colours done by Daniel.

-Dan

Story Arc and Story Beats

2006-10-09T02:01:00.000-05:00

Thanks Ian for making this Story Arc Graph.

Daniel and James collaborated together to make the story beats.

-Dan

Ian's Concepts

2006-10-09T01:55:00.000-05:00

Here are samples of Ian's concepts

Ian's Ending Storyboards

-Dan

Jame's Concepts

2006-10-09T01:41:00.000-05:00

Still waiting on some of Jame's scans....so more updates to come

-Dan

Daniel's Concepts

2006-10-09T01:35:00.000-05:00

Here are some of Daniel's concepts

Marci's Concepts

2006-10-09T01:24:00.000-05:00

Here are some of Marci's designs and concepts.

-Dan

Sheera's Concepts

2006-10-09T01:12:00.000-05:00

Here are some of Sheera's Concepts

-Dan

Vadim's Concepts

2006-10-09T01:01:00.000-05:00

Here are some of Vadim's Concepts

-Dan

References Samples

2006-10-09T00:48:00.000-05:00

Here are some of our inspirations

-Dan

2006-10-09T00:45:00.000-05:00

Ok here is Sylvain Marc's blog. Lots of cool stuff to wet your appetite and spark your creativity.

I couldn't find a gallery or suitable site for Ronald Searle. So you're just going to have to google his stuff if you really want to see it.

Dan should be posting the colour story beats soons. Until next time...

-James

Group Meetings

2006-10-01T23:48:00.000-05:00

Group Meeting Tues Oct 3 and Thurs Oct 5th.

Be sure to bring your concept story keys on Thursday.

-Dan

2006-09-29T19:20:00.000-05:00

I found out today that Casper is also doing his film set in World War 2 Russia. I figure it would be a good idea to check out his blog, he's posted up some of his concepts.

-James

Story Brainstorming

2006-09-29T02:08:00.000-05:00

Special thanks to all members of The Line. The story has been solidified. Two thumbs up to Vadim who surprised us with his wonderful story idea.

The group is on its way to Conceptual Keys for the story!

Here are some photos of our little cozy corner and the brainstorming process.

Vadim posing infront of our reference wall

Vadim acting our a scene

Shira taking notes

James acting out his interpretation

-Dan

The Story!

2006-09-26T14:48:00.000-05:00

Out of the 20 premise we were given from the animation lecture. The Line picked "Clothline"...no pun intended.

Story development in progress. Concepts are underway, we will see what interesting settings and character designs we come up with soon!

-Dan

The Forming

2006-09-23T19:47:00.000-05:00

Welcome to The Line Production's blog!

We are a group of animators currently enrolled in Sheridan's 3rd year animation. The focus for this year is to produce a short animated film. Our group consist of 9 members: Marci, Daniel, James, Shiera, Vadim, Ian, Christina, Bryden, and Jimmy.

This Blog will be our production journal. Hope that we will produce some visual eye candies for you all to view. Stay tooned!~

(preview: Next week we are picking our story idea.)

-Daniel