Short Film of the Week!

hey!  just wanted to let everyone know Alpha-9 was put up on bestforfilm.com as the short film of the week.  There's a short interview on it and some pics.  check it out!

also, here's a screenprint plan i was working on tonight.  this only shows a close-up of three layers to get colors.  this print may be a little weird when you see the full thing and all 5 colors.  then again, it could not turn out at all!  screenprinting is awesome.

kids are the best audience ever

My Film was recently screened in A small Festival in La Roche Sur Yon, France, and apparently the Children's Jury there decided to write me a letter telling me how much they liked my film. This is so cool dude, adults would never do this!

Dear Mister Amstrong,

we really loved your movie. When we were told that it was your first movie, we were really impressed : it looked really good! The movie is really funny, we all loved the idea of saying that the monster could be really nice! We were really moved when it was alone with all the bodies of the space invadors he would have loved to play longer with!

We really hope that you will make another movie because this one was great, and we are already looking forward to watch it!

Sincerely,

La Roche Sur Yon's Child Jury

Original Message:

Cher Monsieur Amstrong,

nous vous écrivons pour vous dire que nous avons adoré votre film. Lorsqu'on nous a dit que c'était votre premier film, nous avons vraiment été très impressionné : il était vraiment très bien réussi! Ce film est extrêmement drôle, nous avons tous aimé cette idée d'un monstre qui serait en réalité très gentil! Nous avons été très émus lorsqu'il était seul sur la montagne des cadavres des spationautes avec qui il aurait tant voulu pouvoir jouer!

Nous espérons que vous aller faire d'autres films parce que celui-là était génial et nous sommes

pressés de le regarder!

Cordialement,

Le Jury Adolescent du Festival International du Film de La Roche Sur Yon

my thesis is finally online!

Sorry it's been a month since my last post. It's been pretty crazy what with graduating, family visiting, and moving that I haven't had any time to do any actual drawing. I need to get back in the swing of things now.

But until then, my thesis film, The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! is now on Cartoon Brew for hopefully everyone to see! Hope you enjoy.

In the spirit of the thesis that's totally over, here are the beginning designs and super rough ideas of backgrounds before I started laying out and animating. They don't even look like the same characters to me now after they've changed through animating. Thanks to everyone who's seen it so far!

SVA DUSTY film festival

just to let anyone know that may be in new york this week, the SVA animation thesis screenings are this thursday the 7th, with my thesis playing roughly nine-ish. it's at the sva theatre, playing from 7pm-11pm. that's 4 hours of cartoons for free. pretty amazing if you ask me. hope to see you there.

the sva theatre
333 w 23rd st,
ny ny 10011

The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!

almost done! it's weird when 8 months of straight work and worry all slowly wind to a stop. it's kind of a pre-post-partum thing, where you stop thinking "all i need is rest" and start thinking, "okay, what next?"

until i can figure that out, i made some postcards for my thesis (of which the screening is may 7th i think). i'm really a child when things come in the mail for me, especially something printed. i'm so eagerly waiting that i just keep hitting refresh on the ups page, even though i know when it'll arrive.

if you want one, find me in the Digi lab, comment, or email, and i'll be sure to get one to you, no matter how far. i got 500 so i want to get them out, i can't stand to see unused printed things!

Thesizing the demons

this is right before the monster gets hit in the face with a laser. kind of like a dog chasing an oncoming car.

screenshot

Here's what I'm choosing as the screen shot for the Dusty's book, thought this might be a good time to finally start putting some thesis stuff up. I think this is final color, but I'll probably use some textures. This still feels too bare for me.

I've done about 6 months on my thesis so far, and have a frightening two months left. It's time for some prayers...

Hope you like!

some downtime at the Land of Letters. Here's a spaceman wearing goggles.

thesis pt 1

some concept playing around waiting to animate on this piece.

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