Colour Correction

Here it is our group film Colour Correction! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it! Lots of love and hard work was put into this project and I'm still proud that our team managed to accomplish this ambitious film. Go Kaleidoscope Studios! Woo!

I will make a post with my artwork on the film as well as some behind the scenes stuff sometime next week since I also finished my Tinternship today! It was a great experience working at Tinman and I learned a TON of stuff there and had the pleasure of working on so many cool projects! Now it's time for one week of vacation until....FOURTH YEAR. 

Colour Correction Teaser

Something awesome is coming very soon...keep your eyes peeled!

Colour Correction Teaser from Marco Rivera on Vimeo.

THAT'S A WRAP!

The premiere went really well! Watching all those films on the big screen was exhilarating. Our film showed first since we usually were the last ones to screen throughout the year as we were the last group. 

The moment I saw our logo my heart sank and freaked out expecting the worse: sound not working, a scene was coloured wrong, we forgot and didn't animate a scene, ANYTHING. Considering my group always got the short end of the stick throughout the year and we had a huge technical error the day of handing in the film so were the last ones to submit, it wasn't so bizarre of me to be extremely worried. But just a couple of scenes later that feeling went away and I was completely engrossed in our own film and the crowd watching it. 

Hearing their reactions with "ooh"s and "aaah"s, laughs and "WHOA!"s felt so great to hear. The response and feedback afterwards were even better which have been very positive so far! They were also usually accompanied by "that was really ambitious...". We were crazy enough to do what we did and we managed to deliver. 

During our screening we also voted on best film and MVPs from each group and I was voted the MVP for our group! After the screening I felt such a rush of emotions and relief as the year was done. The past 8 months culminated into that one moment and it was grand. After navigating past the large crowd outside the screening room for the public showing afterwards, we all went into the studio and took photos with our mentors and groups. It was great, everyone was excited, pumped, and overall happy. The gloom that set in the studio the past week or two was gone and everyone was just happy everything turned out fine. All the films in my year turned out amazing and I'm proud of what everyone managed to create! Congrats to everyone, it's been such a great year!

To my Kaleidoscope Studios team, I couldn't have asked for a better ragtag group of awesome people to work with. Even though I didn't know most of them at the beginning of the year, it was a pleasure to work with them, learn from them, and get to know them. They were like my second family this year and I'm glad we accomplished something great.

Here's some photos from that day!

Kaleidoscope Studios team with mentor Tony Tarantini! Missing: Alyssa Bucholtz.

From the screening:

Me in the top right descending the stairs to join the other MVPs!

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As for the film, it won't be posted online in a while! When? Not sure. Submitting in festival perhaps?? Got to get that composer thing worked out though in the meantime. Look forward to seeing it when it does go online! One more showing at Sheridan is this tuesday April 26 at 10am in S235 if you have the chance!

I will also make a post about my experience during the third year film production sometime soon as well as post the art that I've done for the film! Stay tuned!

3rd Year Sheridan Animation Premiere is TODAY!

I'm super excited and nervous at the same time! After 8 months on the project the film is finally done! I will write about the experience after all of this cools down. But get hyped for those that can watch it today at 5:45 in J102!

Here are two screenshots from the film to whet your appetite!

The bottom one is a scene I animated! Get excited!

Also here's a bonus! Dom Corbett made an awesome drawing of the cast of the film at the premiere!

Not Dead But Hanging In There

Haven't posted in a while. Don't worry I'm not dead...sort of. Just extremely overwhelmed at the moment with the group film production and having to stay late or overnight at the studio this past week. It's going to be handed in this tuesday and screened on April the 21! So get excited for those that can make it to the screening at school.

Here's a little poster made by my story teacher with a fun Taylor Swift quote with the schedule:

Also check out our blog again at http://kaleidoscopestudios.tumblr.com/ for some neat behind the scenes stuff going on during crunch week!

Get hyped! Now back to work I gooooooo!

Colour Correction Poster and Kaleidoscope Studios Logo

Here it is! The kick-ass poster for our group film! Wonderfully illustrated by Jade Poon and text and design done by me!

Agent Leon in Colour Correction will be coming soon to a theatre near you!

Remember to check us out over at http://kaleidoscopestudios.tumblr.com/

Our group decided to go for a horizontal approach to the poster instead of the conventional vertical one as an homage to old James Bond posters from the 60's. Apparently we're the first ones to ever do it! Woo!

Everyone was doing small sketches of poster ideas and then about an hour before the meeting to vote on a poster design I asked Jade to check out the horizontal posters from James Bond and she quickly sketched an awesome composition that the whole group unanimously agreed on. We all liked how the James Bond posters was a beautiful collage of the best parts of the film and we wanted to incorporate something like that. A poster extremely similar to From Russia With Love was one of our first ideas since first semester that had that collage look with floating elements in white space. Overall Jade knocked it out of the park and we've received such a great reception to it so far!

Our group is called Kaleidoscope Studios in reference to Cinemascope and the colour theme we have in our film. For the Kaleidoscope Studios logo I heavily referenced this version of the Cinemascope logo. There are many variations of it depending on the credit design, but they all shared the same bend in the type and sometimes that 3D type look. Rather than achieve the 3D look through simpler means I did it all on photoshop by hand in order to achieve that airbrush-y feel to the three dimensionality of it. I really like how it turned out!

Agent Leon In...Colour Correction - Pitch Package

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A permanent link to the group film blog will also be on the sidebar right under the "Cuphead" badge. 

Look forward to seeing more film related stuff here soon! All group film related stuff will now be posted under the tag "group film". Just click the label at the side in the future!

HERE IT IS! THE PITCH PACKAGE FOR OUR GROUP FILM!

Filled with amazing artwork by amazing people! Go Kaleidoscope Studios!

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I designed the entire layout of the pitch package from scratch. All the contents of the folder such as the paper, paper clips, polaroids, tape, rips, shadows, glare, texture blemishes, creases etc. were all done by me! It took A LOT of time to make. I spent a good 8am-10pm in the studio for an entire week just to compile and get it all together looking nice. It's a labour of love!

Since the beginning of coming up with the spy idea I had the idea of doing a dossier folder for the pitch package. I mainly looked at Creaturebox's books as a main influence since they format their pages in such creative ways that have story to them as well if you take the time to look. From logos to little written details behind the main drawings, there's a story on every page.

So for each page I decided it should be fitting for the content presented and informed the reader as though it was informing a spy on his next mission. The front page is the folder closed with a stamp of the title as though it were a "classified" or "top secret" stamp. I wanted a bit of each page to show behind the current page as though you're flipping through it. The caricatures were wonderfully done by Koko Chou after we all decided to make ourselves as super villains. Each of us drew an extremely quick sketch of how we wanted to be portrayed as and gave it to Koko to finalize. She knocked it out of the park and they all turned out amazing! Considering we have her really rough sketches of ourselves.

For the synopsis page, there was no other choice but to use continuous stationary for the text and the beat boards as though they were photographs of an event. For the character pages I wanted to keep it as simple as possible as though it were a bio page with a compilation of police sketches. Our first location takes place in a fictional Hong Kong-inspired city, then I remembered a postcard I found from my mom sometime in the early 90's with the stripes on the edges and used a similar look for the background for that page. For the secret base I decided on a blueprint background with ripped up sketches and secret photographs of the location as though they compiled the few bits of information they knew about the location. 

The props page I treated as though they were like stickers, for that I honestly didn't know what to present it as but I did my best. For the colours page I thought about how you would normally present photographs which is mounting it on a black board. It was also so that the colours would stand out much more, kind of like how I have a dark grey background on this blog so that my artwork is more noticeable.

And finally for the Chinese writings I had help from Jade Poon such as the stamps on the Hong Kong streets page and figuring out what text to put behind the main synopsis paper. We ended up just slapping on text from the Chinese wikipedia page for "chameleon". 

I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did making it!

Group Film - Agent Leon in...Colour Correction

That's right here's the title for my 3rd year group film! 

The long awaited website is coming very soon so stay tuned! And check back here as group film artwork I did will be posted here too when the site goes live!