Thesis Film Sneak Peek!

Here's another small slice of work from my thesis film. This was made sometime early September, lots of progress since then! Work on the film is going along extremely well! I'm about 2 weeks ahead of the school's deadlines and I'm trying really hard to keep it that way. I will reveal more about it really soon and I'll be posting some more artwork on it this week! Look forward to it!

Spooky Doodles

Just kidding, only one spooky doodle. Sorry to have scared you at first thinking there were more. The rest are just some silly doodles I did after getting tired of storyboarding for my film. Which is going pretty good so far! I'm on track and way ahead of schedule! Hopefully things remain this way for the rest of the year haha.

Busy, busy, busy! ALREADY!

End of week 2 and even though we have such few classes this year, I've been super busy on my thesis film! Constantly working on it since the first day and I already have a ton of pre-production work. I'll be posting those very soon. In the meantime enjoy a story sketch and a pose I really dig. Character designs aren't final of course! I'll divulge more info about my film the more concrete it is.

I have also added the tag "thesis" for anything pertaining to my fourth year film for quick searching. Look forward to my film! Fourth year is already one hell of a ride and I'm both excited and nervous. 

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3rd year film post-mortem will be delayed until I have time to do it. Compiling all those images and info is one hell of task. There's just so much to talk/post about. I WILL do one, it's just a matter of when I have time to do it.

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. 

Tinmanijam '016!

The artists at Tinman each got 4 hours to come up with an animation based on the previous person's sequence (an anijam) and this is what they came up with. Enjoy!

This was a super cool thing to participate in and I had a lot of fun rushing to get it done! My bit starts at 1:10! Everyone did a super awesome job!

Colour Correction Teaser

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

Colour Correction Teaser from Marco Rivera on Vimeo.

Rotoscoping!

I got to contribute to this cute series of videos (1 of  6)! I did some rotoscoping to get rid of the puppeteers, heads popping up, and hands that would occasionally appear in frame. This is probably my first project that I contributed to that was fully completed and released! Everything else is still in production (Cuphead, Super Science Friends episode 2, etc.) Funny too since this was my most recent project to work on haha. Somehow word got around that I'm After Effects savvy at work and how I composited the majority of my group film. How it happened I don't even know since I asked the other Tinterns if they said anything and no one did. Regardless, it was a job I wasn't expecting to do during the internship but did so and enjoyed it anyway because I got to use the beautiful program that is After Effects!

 Anyway enjoy! And remember to check out the 5 other videos on the Super Simple Songs channel.

Some recent Tindraws:

"Superheroes"

We did superheroes to send to Ben Austin, a child who was recently diagnosed with a form of pediatric kidney cancer. Read more of the story here.

I did Mr. Incredible with the message "You're Incredible!".

"Stranger Things"

Woo! So happy that was the theme. I'm so glad so many people are watching it now. I had no one to talk about it to and speculate with when it first released. But after the surge in popularity and pushing people to watch it (muahahaha) I can practically freely talk and theorize with people now it's so much fun. If you haven't checked out the new Netflix series GO WATCH IT NOW!