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CTN animation Expo

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If you happen to be at CTN next weekend, be sure to pay us a visit at table T-72.
I will be sharing a table with the uber talented Eunjung (June) Kim.
Here is a sneak preview of the flipbook I will be selling at the Expo:

Penguins - Music Video Sneak Preview!

Now that it's very very near completion, I thought I'd post some sketches and production stills from the music video I've been working on for the last couple months; shot and animated by yours truly, co-directed by Maia Ruth Lee.

Penguins

I'm working on a music video that mixes animation and live action...This is a test I did to learn how to use the motion tracking tool in After Effects. I'm pretty happy with the result :)

Claxon City: Title Animation

This is an unused title sequence that I animated for a documentary that my friend and I shot in Beirut last May. I might eventually mix some sound to it just for kicks.

Don't sit on exercise balls...

...You might get pregnant!

ON AIR

This is a really old project I worked on in my first year of animation. I went overboard with the coloring and clean up and everything, but as trivial as that stuff is, I learned a lot from doing it; like the fact that performance is key, and all the polish in the world can't save a bad performance! But anyways, this was my first real dialog piece and everyone I've shown it to seems to be amused by it. So here it is!

"Worst Looking Hat" Work-in-Progress

This is a dialog test that I'm currently working on for my reel. These are some of the ideas and designs that I went through before settling on the final characters. Some of these overlap with the Film Noir project (guess I was trying to hit 2 birds with one stone) but I realized that wasn't going to work because we've decided to take a much more graphic approach on the Noir project.

Anyways, the animation is at the bottom of this post...still needs a tone of work, but I would love to get some feedback at this point. That's the downside to working alone at home...you don't get constant feedback form your peers!













"Worst Looking Hat" (Work-in-Progress) from Hanna on Vimeo.

The nice thing about working from home is I have a nice little work station right in my bedroom, so I can literally role out of bed in the morning and get strait to work.



The desk was an old drafting table donated by my good friend Mark Chun (he was moving to Hawaii). I had a hole carved into it and built a light fixture in the back out of scrap pieces of wood. The only real investment was the disc which I ordered from Alan Gordon.

My Animation Demo Reel

Hanna Abi-Hanna's Animation Demo Reel (12/19/07) from Hanna on Vimeo.

"Awful Man" rough keys and breakdowns

Finally got some work done on the dialog. I haven't been able to work on it much lately, with my final review coming up next week and all. But it's getting there.

Feedback and critiques are most welcome!


Awful Man! from Hanna on Vimeo.

"You are an awful man!!..."

Here is some stuff that I'm working on for a dialog test. I've done a couple dialogs before, but non that I'm entirely happy with, so I figured I'd work on this to add to my demo reel.

The amazing Rosie Sullivan was nice enough to offer me the use of one of her awesome character designs, so I'm using him on the receiving end of the dialog.

Here are some of the early character designs that I went through before finding the sound clip that I wanted to use...














I finally settled on THIS piece of dialog from 'Anchorman' (which I haven't seen):
"Little Girl:"You are an awful man! You are truly a disappointment to us all Mr Burgundy!"









Some animation thumbnails...



I tried changing 'Mr. Burgundy's' proportions a little to make him taller than the little girl, but I ended up going back to Rosie's original design because it was way too appealing to change any part of it!





I'll post some pencil tests in the next few days...

'Beneath the Rubber Tree'

This is the latest cut of my short film, "Beneath the Rubber Tree"...


Beneath the Rubber Tree from Hanna on Vimeo.

...I already cut it with the sound and credits so it could be screened in the Fall Festival, but you'll notice that there's a lot more work to be done on it. I'm honestly a little burned out from working on it for so long so I'm taking a little break to work on a small dialog piece.