Down On The Farm

[jammin]

this is really good: story, palette, models... and i love the animation; very nice. you guys should be proud of this -i bet the kids love it!

[Creature]

That is one hell of a great animation! Love it

[Mendes]

It was a pleasure working with such talented people. I'm really impressed with how it all turned out. Great work guys. It's been fun.

[richardoud]

Really great stuff... you guys should be proud of yourself! 5 stars from me..

[Akuma1x]

you guys have done a wonderful job! great to see the technical and artistic aspect come together in such a beutiful way...5 STARS

[mitchGLADNEY]

excellent work guys! it's nice to see it came together so well.

[PEN]

Congratulations guys you did some great work there.

[Mathieson]

Thanks a lot for all the kind words so far everybody! If anybody has any questions about anything, feel free to ask. We'd be happy to answer them.

[RobertoOrtiz]

Great work!

Plugged.

-R

[Paul McLaughlin]

Good film, I like the unique way that the mouths are animated/modeled.

What is it about though? (not what happens)

[Drakaran]

fun reel, and nice design. I love how the top part of the frog's head moves while he's hopping, adds to the humor of the piece.

only crit I really see is when the frog is on the pad, the feet anim doesn't match with the pad anim so it looks a bit odd. also I would have exaggerated the mouth movements a bit more as most of the time the characters look like they're mumbling, and they only roughly match the lipsync. the general gestures of the characters are quite good, they just appear to need some fine tuning.

good work!

[pearson]

Great job! That is a ton of work, and very hard to pull off all the different facets of such a project. There were a couple of things that bothered me, though.

For some reason, I found the disconnected jaws to be rather distracting. The transition from the story teller to flying into the book was a bit jarring. And I'm sure time constraints played a part, but I would have liked to see the narrator at the end, instead of just staring at "The End" during the final narration.

Those are just minor points, though, and shouldn't take away from the great accomplishment you've achieved. Congratulations!
:thumbsup:

[Kostadamus]

Impressive for a 4 men job and a deadline. Good to see you pull it off.

[Mathieson]

RobertoOrtiz: Thanks! Its a real honour to be on the front page!

Paul McLaughlin: Thanks!I'm not sure I understand your question, but the story is an aesop fable that has been slightly re-worked to accomodate our intended premise. The premise of our story was to "live and learn". I'm glad you liked it!

Drakaran: The head lagging behind in the jump is actually what sold us on the idea of the detached heads and jaws! We wanted something that would really set our designs apart, and that was something we had never seen before. Of course, this raised a challenge for doing the lip syncing because we needed to find. The animators all have worked very hard to get it to the point where it is currently at and might go back, when there is time, to push them even further. Glad you liked it, and appreciate your comment!

pearson: Thank you! It was quite an undertaking for all of us. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into, and still aren't too sure how we got it finished! It seemed like we were behind schedule until the day we finished. Which part of the transition into the book bothered you? Would you mind going into a bit more detail? It was a tricky little shot to do, so it would be great to get some feedback specific to it. And we would like to go back and animate the narrator for the "THE END" sequence when we have time. Right now everybody is busy preparing their demo reels and looking for jobs. Thanks again!

Kostadamus: Thanks Kosta, there were more than four of us working on the project though. The four listed at the bottom of the original post were just the only ones with websites. I will post the credits as seen at the end of the animation to make sure everybody gets their proper kudos. Hope everything is going well for you, and thanks again.



Written by
Terry Posthumus
Rick Bursey

Directed by
Mathieson Facer
Terry Posthumus

Production Manager
Mathieson Facer

Producer
Terry Posthumus

Production Designer
Stephan Perreault

Animation Direction
Terry Posthumus

Character Designs
Stephan Perreault
David Campbell

Set Designs
Tim Johnstone

Animators
Stephan Perreault
Jason Labbe
Mike Mendes
Chris Bloomer

Character Technical Director
Jason Labbe

Effects Technical Director
Mathieson Facer

Lighting / Rendering / Compositing
Mathieson Facer

Set Dressing
Mathieson Facer

Background Paintings
Deborah Colvin

Character Models
Stephan Perreault
David Campbell

Character Textures
Stephan Perreault

Set & Props Models / Textures
Tim Johnstone
Mathieson Facer

Sound Effects
Mathieson Facer
Jason Labbe

Theme Song Written & Performed by
Terry Posthumus

Background Music "Home, Sweet Home" by
Henry R. Bishop

Voiceovers Performed by
Terry Posthumus

Special Thanks
Paul Neale
Brian Lemay
Rob Clark
Cory Avery
Rob Thompson
William Hanna
Gary Lima

[pearson]

I think the problem I had with the transition to the book goes something like this.

When the dragonfly is introduced, he is large on the screen and grabs the viewer's attention. The camera completely ignores him and he becomes very small. Both of these are clues to the viewer that the dragonfly is not important, plus the flower starts talking, so the dragonfly is completely forgotten.

While watching the flower, all of a sudden the camera starts to move for no apparent reason. Then the camera is zooming into the book. It's not until after the white flash that I realized that the camera was following the dragonfly. And those few seconds of confusion completely pulled me out of the short.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but it seems to me that if the dragonfly were introduced later, and the camera followed it from the beginning, then the zoom into the book would be communicated better to the viewer.

Anyway, congrats for finishing it, and good luck with the job hunt!

[Breinmeester]

Excuse me, but I have to say this. It's an old joke and it's told pretty poorly. He's not supposed to introduce himself as a widemouth frog, that spoils the punchline. The design of the floating mouths not only establishs weird animation, but it doesn't work with the joke/story! Also the pace is too slow and the camerawork and editing are fairly unsolid.

That's a lot of work put in a weak story.

[mastone]

I like it alot, good job

[Wonderer]

Loved the animation and character design, it is very enterntaining.
keep up!

[milannnnnnnn]

nice animation
really nice

[Mathieson]

pearson: I know what you mean now. The dragonfly is not important through most of the dialogue and we did want the attention to be taken away from him and placed on the narrator, but we could have done a better job at re-introducing him before the camera movement. I can understand how that might get confusing for viewers, especially with all that is going on in that short bit of time. This is something else I'd like to revisit now when I have the time. Thanks for pointing that out!

Breinmeester: We are aware there is lots of room for improvement, there always is and always will be. We all learned a lot from working on this project and already feel we could achieve a much much better finished product had we started it today. Sorry you didn't like it, and thank you for your comment.

mastone: Thank you!

Wonderer: You should check out Stephan Perreault's demo reel. He designed and animated a lot of the characters. You can find the thread here http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=154&t=523337

milad-aghlmandi: Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[FRENZIEDmind]

Awesome! Love it! And thanks you for providing a low-res QT!

That's a lot of work put in a weak story.Hollywood, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc work their tail off on stories that are complete crap, day-in-day-out.

[PEN]

Whooo Hooo, Front page boys! Congrats on all the hard work, I knew you could pull it off.

[gurpreetsoni]

wow gr8 work 5 star

[kman108]

great work! i'm blown away, really. i can see you put a lot of sweat and tears into this. best of luck to you all!

[Kostadamus]

I stand corrected, 5 men job not 4, not counting directors and animators, designers/lay out artists and such, just from CG perspective . TD guy, Lighting/rendering/compositing guy, modelling 2 guys, and an environmental artist, and a buncha criss-crossing. Tons of work, glad you pulled it off and no one dropped off while working on it. Has a lot of nice subtle touches (well the flies not so subtle after the cut -- the cut seems a tad purposeless to me), and camera angles and lighting/comping could've been pushed a tad further but from a sheer amount of work and a set deadline, it turned out really pretty well. I'd try getting rid of the white frame on transition on the book though, it is a bit of a jarring transition that leaves an impression of a missing frame, but i'm nitpicking.

See ya guys around.

[DDragoon]

Awesome Job guys! i loved it !

[Namit]

Gr8 work guyz; good team co-ordination as well!!:)

You have created a new benchmark for Humber 3D!!

Congratzz again!!:thumbsup:

[SpaXe]

Loved the rhymes and the songs. More candy, kids! ;)

Good job.

[Breinmeester]

Hollywood, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc work their tail off on stories that are complete crap, day-in-day-out.
So? I'm glad I don't have to watch it.

Breinmeester: We are aware there is lots of room for improvement, there always is and always will be. We all learned a lot from working on this project and already feel we could achieve a much much better finished product had we started it today. Sorry you didn't like it, and thank you for your comment.
Good for you, man! Keep at it. I'm sure this caused a lot of progression.

[Blaschke]

Great!

5*

[bentllama]

Is Lemay teaching at Humber now?

Cute short by the way...

[Mathieson]

FRENZIEDmind: Thank you, and not a problem.

PEN: Thanks Paul! Couldn't have done it without your support and guidance through the past two years.

gurpreetsoni: Thank you very much!

kman108: Thanks Kyle! We really did work hard this past year, I'm glad that it shows. Hope everything is going great with you.

Kostadamus: Hey, nitpicking makes perfect, hahaha. Thanks again man, take it easy!

DDragoon: Thanks a lot!

Namit: Thanks! Your stuff is great too. Can't wait to see where you end up.

SpaXe: Thank you!

Breinmeester: Thanks man, it definitely did.

Blaschke: Thank you, appreciate it!

bentllama: Brian has been teaching at Humber the past two years and actually helped us out during pre-production by reviewing our work and guiding us in direction. I'm glad you liked it, thank you!

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