A Wondering Minstrel

IT FINALLY PREMIERED

Ever since starting production on it during winter break 2013 last year, this film went through a bit of a hiatus with work being done on and off. This summer we put our all into finishing it, we even submitted to some festivals because why not? The film was pretty much complete after the summer except for one scene needing clean up and a few mistakes that needed to be fixed. Then the premiere for the summer 24 Hour Films was delayed and then it was finally shown! HURRAH!

What a long strange trip it's been.

It's weird thinking that it's almost a year since this was created, and the small animation I did at the beginning with the first musician makes me wish I could redo it since I have become way better since then.

SO HERE IT IS STUDIO MONGOOSE'S THIRD FILM:

Credits:

Studio Mongoose Tumblr

Studio Mongoose Team:

Matthew Ramirez: http://ramirezart.tumblr.com/

Melissa Cho: http://cheeeesu.tumblr.com/

Marc Lefevre: http://maclefame.tumblr.com/

Raymond Dunster: http://raymonddunster.tumblr.com/

Kennith Concelos: http://kennith-concelos.tumblr.com/

Kathleen Martin: http://martinartin.tumblr.com/

Concept Art

Title Design:

I decided to go overboard with this title design. I wanted it to look like those old fairy tale Disney logos with the occasional metallic-gold look, so I looked at the recent version of the Sleeping Beauty logo as my main source of inspiration.

Disney's Sleeping Beauty logo

I looked for a font that looked like it came out of old medieval pages. Unfortunately the letter "A" didn't look nice, so I cheated and it is a combination of the letter "O" and "N". And here's the process of designing the logo.

Original black and white logo.

Digital painting process.

Final title design.

Final title card.

The House Boyd Flag design by me.

Character designs by Kathleen Martin:

Galaxy Gal - A 24 Hour Film by Studio Mongoose

I present to you Studio Mongoose's second 24 Hour Film!

I extremely enjoyed working on this one with the team. It another exhausting event and the premier for it at the 24 Film Festival went spectacular.

I will try and post some behind the scenes stuff sometime at the end of this week but work is piling up in these last 2 weeks. So I can't make any promises for this week, but I will post some of the process work and talk about what I worked on sometime soon.

Stay tuned!

And don't forget to check out our tumblr:

http://studiomongoose.tumblr.com/

And our podcast tumblr where you can find the rest of the films that were submitted for the 24 Hour Film Festival with a whopping 14 films this semester!

http://the-keyframes.tumblr.com/

Murder at Mongoose Manor - A 24 Hour Short Film by Studio Mongoose

I created a short film with a group of people! 
And what an experience!



Done in 24 hours straight! It was such an interesting 24 hours and a wonderful experience to create something from scratch with a bunch of awesome people. Even after a month from creating it, I couldn't help but smile during the premier of it on the big screen this past friday.

In the end, with our little group of friends, we called ourselves Studio Mongoose. So here's a tumblr page with some behind the scenes pictures during the production of this short film!

Studio Mongoose Tumblr

Studio Mongoose Team:
Matthew Ramirez: http://ramirezart.tumblr.com/
Melissa Cho: http://cheeeesu.tumblr.com/
Marc Lefevre: http://maclefame.tumblr.com/
Raymond Dunster: http://raymonddunster.tumblr.com/
Kennith Concelos: http://kennith-concelos.tumblr.com/
Kathleen Martin: Blog coming soon!

OH AND WHAT'S THIS?! STUDIO MONGOOSE HAS A PODCAST TOO?!

I present to you the first episode of The Keyframes! In this episode we talk about the whole 24Hour Film making experience.

The Keyframes Youtube Page
The Keyframes Podcast Tumblr

Subscribe, follow, and enjoy the work! Studio Mongoose will continue making some new stuff!
Updated my page with these links on the sidebar for you readers to return to.

Also, have some concept work of the short too!

Here's some early rough work on the character I designed.

Redesign by Kennith

Marc's character. Original in the centre, a refined on the right, and the final design on the top left.

Raymond's character and final by Kennith on the right.

Matt's character and Kennith's redesign.

Melissa's character and Kennith's redesign, it went through another redesign while animating. As well as an early plan of the guest's shapes to find an interesting composition and placement at the table, taking gender also into consideration.

Main character design by Kennith and more explorations.

Colour test I did of Eloise.

Early layout design and final placement of guests at the table so that we were able to start animating.

Wonderful Mongoose Manor design by Matthew.