Animation: Student thesis poor bogo

[Stimpy]

seens this one sometime somewhere and i love it love it love it.

awesome style in lighting and rendering and cute story as well.

[stephen2002]

That is a really nice story, having everything in the imagination being portrayed and then changed by the voice of reason of the father.

The technical execution is good as well. Great job!

[lildragon]

Good to see it back on the web Thelvin :)

salud

[SheepFactory]

:buttrock: hands down the best student animation i have ever seen

[biffen]

That was AMAZING. The thing I liked best, was the black bars on top and bottom of the screen. They actually reacted to the environment. That was very creative. The scene transitions were great too.

This also had one of the best uses of lighting I've ever seen. Great job, man. wow.

[keithlango]

Congrats on a wonderful short, Thelvin. You did a magnificent job of capturing that little spark of joyous imagination that is so ellusive. I loved this thing when I saw it during thesis reviews last December and I love it now.

Fine work. This is one of the best student works ever.

-k

[cbutlerc]

That was Fantastic :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Everything was done very,very, well.
Great animation,great lighting,and great story.

Awesome Job!!!!!!!!

[baby]

but I think U know already

:bounce: :bounce:

[b.Schulz]

Originally posted by keithlango


Fine work. This is one of the best student works ever.

-k

Agree'd. Very inspirational. Can't wait until you get "the making" of section up on your website. I saw this a while ago too...only thing was that although I loved it...it' was kinda depressing the way the father was so mean all the time. But at the same time you can argue that he was just trying to get the kid to bed. In general, it doens't hinder my opinion that it's one of the best completed student films I've seen. Great work. The transitions and bars that change shape are incredible. :thumbsup: :D

:buttrock:

[Leo73]

I get a video compressor error from quicktime when I try to view it. Any suggestions???

[Morten_Jensen]

WAAUOW..

One of the coolest animations I have seen in a long time:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Tellerve]

Absolutely stunning! Amazing piece of work...sorry art. I am thoroughly impressed and agree it is one of the best pieces of cg I've seen in quite some time.

Really inspirational!

thanks,

Tellerve

[FatherGlory]

Very nice work and a great idea for a short !

:applause:

[imashination]

I seem to remember this being pulled so it could be entered for a video festival of some sort. what happened with this?

[E.Z. Schwartz]

Pretty awsome. I thought the little girls voice was way better acted than the father's, which I thought was the only week point of the film. Was that really the voice of a kid or was it someone older who can make a kiddy voice?

[psumo]

great lighting and superb animation
I love the colors
also cool use of shake (I know you used it a lot :))

[CgFX]

Awesome. Don't worry about finding a job. Just make sure you go straight to Pixar, PDI, DD, Sony, ILM, Weta, etc. Especially if you wrote your own shaders.

BTW, you forgot to thank Tim Burton. :-)

[kr3ml]

What can I say(?)... FANTASTIC! :thumbsup:

But that they talked in the backround disturbed me a litle... :shrug:

[manutara]

I also got the QTime Error...What QTime Codec are you using?

[glorydays]

very nicely done!!!:scream:

[Martypt]

Tim Burton influenced,am I right? Very nice artwork.Animation is really well done,nice story too.Great shaders.:thumbsup:

[dominicqwek]

This is so beautiful. Very nice colours. :)

[Incitatus]

Pretty amazing, that's all I can say. :love:

[shaangfx]

goood creativity...creative and inovative use of software...
solid artistic skills......nice wrk..keep it up! i dont think u will drive a fedex truck...!

[Kuba1]

The story is amazing good job. I also Love your overall design.

[Gregwid]

Nice animation,really nice.Cute story too.Models are funny and appealing as well.Nice job.:applause: :beer:

[cwang]

Working beside Thelvin as a classmate and friend, I must say he is one of the most talented and smartest guys I know. His work ethic and devotion can really be seen through this piece of amazing work.

Congrats and good luck to him. :thumbsup:

[edwarder]

Awesome!!!!!

besides the great lightning, modeling and animation, the editing is exelent!



edward robbins

the monkey sings

[Thelvin]

Thank you all for the kind comments. Is comments like this that keeps you going.


Ohh sorry for the people that are having compression problems. I am using Mpeg 4 codec. I though this was a very wide used codec.
I also have a small divx version if you want.

www.rsad.edu/~tcabezas/movies/thesisFs.avi Hope that helps

Martypt

I really like and respect Tim Burton's style (don't we all), the darkness in his art appeals me but sometimes is just too dark. I like more "cute" stuff, but with a twist to it.
Bogo is a little monster, cute and ugly at the same time.

E.Z. Schwartz

I agree with you, but I didn't pay for a professional actor, maybe I should've.
The little girl's voice is actually from a little girl :) 12 years old I think (not sure maybe less). I recorded a hundred takes while she repeated sentence by sentence what I wanted.
I had to work hard to make it fit together using all those takes, a lot of work.

imashination
"I seem to remember this being pulled so it could be entered for a video festival of some sort. what happened with this?"

I took it down for two reasons. First cause it was spreading beyond my control over the net and at the time I didn't wanted to. I didn't wanted to caused at the time it wasn't finished.
And second caused I thought there was a problem regarding Festival submission rules. But just to make things clear, neither siggraph electronic theater nor Student academy awards have any rules against posting the film online. I think it is only for the oscars(best animated short category).

keith lango
Ahhh yes, the old critique days. Thanks you for coming to our school and giving us some good advices. Is this kind of feedback that matters.


cwang

Ahh alex my friend... :blush:


Thanks again to all !
And to cgtalk and lildragon of course

[foodi]

that is fantastic

seriously

as mentioned before.. inventive use of the letterbox borders is a superb idea

holy cow

[Jason S]

A truely amazing animation!!! :buttrock: cant wait to see more!

-Ja

[ninja noodle]

beautiful animation!!! i absoloutely love it! bogo has sooo much character! i love how everything on screen interacts with everything else! truely original! and it's sooooo cute!! :)

well done! :applause:

[KingMob]

Hey a ringling kid...still at sarasota? I live int his town to..not a student tho. checking out the anim now :beer:

[Steveyola]

Fine job.I want more now.Animation is smooth,voices are well done too.Cool style as well.:beer:

[nickz]

Don't think you are going to have trouble finding a job with this one!!! I love it all!!! I really like your usage of the aspect ratio of the screen and the way you use the water effect and the heat effect. The lighting is awesome and your character is cool as well!!! All around great job!!! Kinda reminded me of the Family dog where the little girl is rambling on during the home movie sequence!!

You rock!!!

[Solesurvivor]

OMG, that was simply stunning. If you have troubles finding a job, I quit my studies and learn something else, butcher or something like that... Really really nice atmosphere :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Brettzies]

beautiful execution in every aspect!!!:thumbsup: i have to agree with E.Z. Schwartz about the male voice though. the child voice is so wonderful, i think it causes a huge contrast. otherwise....ah luv et.

[asparapani]

It's nice to see great stuff coming from students. I smell the perfect Pixar canidate....

Good luck to you...:bounce:

[Animator395]

As a fellow senior in school, all I have to say is:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

[psumo]

Originally posted by asparapani
I smell the perfect Pixar canidate....

I think so too.

[Grubwyrm]

:buttrock: :buttrock:

Wow..... I'm floored. Very nice short. The style is somewhat Burton-esque as somone mentioned... perhaps a little Oyster Boy.... but, not much. You character has tons of appeal, and, is animated almost perfectly. You did a very fine job!

:thumbsup:
-grub

[AJ]

Really really sweet... I second what others have said about the 'father's' voice acting - but it doesn't detract from such a lovely short.

I want to take this film, roll it into a tube and beat the creators of the 'Chubb Chubb's' around the head with it (in a nice way) :D

I also want Bogo on my desk... :sad: :D

[gary hsu]

I really like the whole piece, the lighting and the mood , and the animation, and the candy are sooooo goood..............mmmm......candy...............drooling...........candy
let's be friends:beer:
haha

[DZL]

freagin beautiful, man. i love it. so original it's sickening....

who did you get for the voices?? that little girl does a pretty good job!

[toma]

that's SWEEEEETT :love:
Congratulations !

[Aaron]

I have to concur with everyone else -- this really is a good piece of work. Great subtle qualities in the character acting -- wonderful holds. Bravo =)

-Aaron.

[PolyMangler]

well damn that raises the bar a bit on student reels...awesome everything, i especially like the work with the black bars, that was a very nice touch, transitions were wildly creative...

i give it :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[seantree]

maybe i'm a little too sentimental but i almost teared up watchin that. Something about the little girls imagination, I almost teared up! great stuff. k, now you may all commence laughing. hehe

[squeezestudio]

great job! i like the animation , the story, the environnement ...really original!!!

[FusionDG]

very touching

the little girls voice won me over

quite imaginative; thanks for sharing your work with us!

[Magnusv]

Very sweet,Nice Burton style,animation is clean and smooth,fun too.:thumbsup:

[gaggle]

Good lord.

That's amazing. That's.. amazingly cool. I love it! Everything else has been said already, so I'm going to leave it at the ego-stroking positive remarks .)

From what I've seen of The Cathedral and Chubb Chubbs (and, yes, Mike's Car, but let's not go into that) I'm wondering why on earth this wasn't nominated........

[b.Schulz]

LOL @ seantree. Sissy! hahah..just kidding. I think it's crazy that as soon as someone distorts an object it's becomes burton'esk. Dam that guy, quite an impression he's made!!! :D

[lildragon]

Originally posted by gaggle
From what I've seen of The Cathedral and Chubb Chubbs (and, yes, Mike's Car, but let's not go into that) I'm wondering why on earth this wasn't nominated........

Because it wasn't ready at the time. And I'm proud to say that he's entered it to the 3Dawards. Again well done Thelvin

salud

[Redf]

Very well done.Really great pleasure to see.:thumbsup:

[baby]

I don't see any cgtalk award here ?!? how can it be ?!? ;)

[shrimp_chip]

You're movie's delightful, and I hope to see more of your work in the future! :thumbsup:

However, if I may be just a tiny bit critical, the movie appears too dark and low contrast when viewed on a PC in a normal lighted room. This seems to be true of both the QuickTime and the DivX videos. Did you perhaps optimize the gamma range for a Macintosh (or SGI) rather than a PC? Or perhaps for viewing in a completely dark room?

The result is that it's quite hard to "read" the character's expressions in the dark scenes.

You might want to consider adjusting the brightness and contrast the next time you encode this movie.

[GavinG]

Very Good stuff there,

As a fellow 3D student i give you these three funky rock salutes


:xtreme: :xtreme: :xtreme:


Gav

[leigh]

Beautiful work, absolutely incredible stuff :thumbsup:

[raden]

This is such an excellent work Thelvin. You're succesfully displaying your best:thumbsup:

Fine character design & art direction. The shading/ texturing/lighting bring up the moods. I really like the rather 'clayinstopmotion' feel to it.

Animation, cuts & direction :buttrock:
I's a little nice touch when the candy pops up after the ice melted.

But what I like most is the story and the way you brought this to life. Emphaty is what I have missed in shorts lately. You got it! And it moves me. This quality that I wish I could bring to live in my future short that I'm about to work on (it also got to do with a child as the main char in the dream vs reality theme, but diff. kind of story & style). Wish me luck man :)

You rock on Thelvin :beer:

Oh yeah where the hell did you find the talent for the child?
Sweet as sweet as the candy:thumbsup:

[Kirt]

:eek: Best damn student film I've ever seen! Creative, inspirational, dramatic and cute to the 10th degree! Good Job! :thumbsup:

Wonderful use of the aspect ratio bars to show conformity in the voice of the father and freedom to be imaginative with the child's voice. Brilliance!

[alexgc]

Wow...What can I say...It is beautiful...so atmospheric and magical...You always know when u see something special because u get that tingling sensation all over...Its a pleasure to watch

U have a great talent and Im sure u will be going places with it. Good luck with the future! :thumbsup:

Im so in awe



:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[hypercube]

I know this is being said and said and said, but had to say it too, that is just unbelievably awesome in every way. GENIUS!!

:love: :bowdown:

I'd say more but I'm really at a loss. Pure magic. Look forward to seeing what you do out in the 'real world'.

[KINGOFPAIN]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Heber]

me gusta vastante tu video , veo que has puesto mucho tiempo y trabajo en tu
"short" quisiera ver mas de tu character "bogo" , bueno suerte en tus estudios :)

[Chaos Maximus]

insperation for a fellow studant, thanks

[cwispy]

That was awsome. Your timing is very organic and solid as a rock.

[cgjie]

I like it:>

[ceql]

Wow, that was awesome :D :applause:

[RockinAkin]

Yes, a million others have already said it, but here we go again...

Simply fantastic job.
Studios will be snatching you up.

-DivideByZero-

[Book]

Great great great work of ART. Wonderful.

You really might want to consider re-recording the voices. A piece this visually wonderful requires equally strong voice talent. Good work!

[the3DBEAST]

Awesome! one of the BEST thesises that came out of Ringling this year...hands down. Prob one of the best thesises i have ever seen from Ringling. AWESOME work.

There are some other GREAT ones to:
http://www.rsad.edu/academics/ca/seniors.shtml

Check out that link. It seems that not all of the thesises are up, but some of the one that really stood out to me are:

Benjamin Shore (really funny)

Christopher Cordingley (simply wonderful! up there with Thelvins)

Keith Osborn (very funny and cute)

Patrick Osborne (def one of the best i have seen)

Paul Hargrave (visually stunning)

Peter Paquette (WONDERFUL motion)

Now just b/c i didn't list them all, doesn't mean they are not as good...these are the ones, INCULDING THELVINS that just blew me away....enjoy!


-fellow RSAD CA

[Gremlin]

Holy crap...
Render Man 11 ? thats awesome...
anywho, your short is pretty cool... Nice smooth animation, and awesome character design.
Cheers,
:beer:

[Cikala]

:eek: :thumbsup: :beer: :drool:
GREAT JOB!
Being a newbie and all, that's a really good inspiration for me :)

[zentoy1980]

this is a incredibly Sweet Animation:beer:
I hope you to get good job, except FedEx :thumbsup:

[GrafOrlok]

Stunned!
:drool:

[KOKE]

As we say in Spain >>>>>>>>> ¡¡BRAVO!!

[ern]

I LOOOOOOVEEEEEEEEEEEEE ITTTT!!!!
NICE!!!!!WELL DONE!!!!!:bounce:

[kin]

All I can say is: WOW! Amazing short, great atmosphere. Perfect.

[Thelvin]

I am so glad so many of you like it. This is exactly what I wanted my thesis to be, something people could enjoy and get emotionally touched.
I can't thank you all enought...

Raden
Yes, empathy was something I wanted to capture. I have seen a lot of computer generated films that look beatiful but that as far as it goes.
Feeling sorry and been touched its the hardest emotion you would want the viewer to feel. shallow laughts seem to be the only thing important this days. I want to cry of happiness or sadness for a character, not laught that his head exploded or some other stupid gag.

the3DBEAST
I agree with you, this year was a good one for Ringling. There is lots of talent among all my friends. Next year is going to be better than this anyways.

shrimp_chip
I actually fix the contrast and brightness on a PC. I'll have to check back on this, you may be right. I hate how something looks good on one computer but it looks completely diferent in another one. :annoyed:

Book
I don't know about rerecording the voices. I like the girls a lot, I agree with the father not been up to the same level. But I also think the fact that people tend not to like the father(and his voice) is something which helps the story.

ok its late... I need some sleep :eek:

[Wiro]

I havent read all the other replies yet but I just wanted to say this is one of if not THE greatest animated short I've seen to date. It's so full of love and attention to detail it's jawdropping!! The color schemes, the animated frame, the character design, voiceover....it's all perfect. I showed it around work and everyone aggrees you shouldn't deserve to get a job after this...you should be handed craploads of money to make more shorts!!!! :D

Wiro

[christianJ]

Come on everyone, this is a 5 star thread if ever I saw one. Get that rating up.

I love this short. I would hold out for the right opportunity as far as work is concerned. Something in which you have some sort of creative input.

cheers

Christian

[mage111]

why do good things always have to come to an end?

this is a great thesis man. all your (and others, voice, music, ectect) all payed off, definitely felt emotions watching it.

i hope theres more adventures ;-)
longer, (dont know about better cus the chase for candy is about the best adventure ever :D)

great work man

[pigbelly]

Loved it!!

It's beautifully animated and rendered.
The story is great, I also fell in love with the character. Hope to see more of him.....

Thanks for inspiring!

/Tommie
www.pigbelly.com

[lildragon]

You already know my thoughts ;) and I am wondering why there's a 4 star rating :curious: this it total brilliance.

You have received the CGtalk choice award .Please feel free to display this image anywhere you like! Inspiring work.

upon receiving this award, it guarantees you a spot in the cgtalk gallery hall of fame (http://gallery.cgtalk.com) - which you are now placed

http://www.cgtalk.com/plug_award/cgtalk_award_apr03_2.jpg

P.S. Please email me @ tito@cgnetworks.com for the award .psd file

salud

[baby]

finally


we almost wait :bounce:

[harmonic01]

I'm totally in love with this short. will definately show it everywhere at school today.

Agreed with Wiro. Somebody hand him lots of money to make more shorts. :bounce:

[ZVAN]

Very GoOD aNiMAtion!

[ZVAN]

VeRy NiCE efFEcTs aND traNsItioNS!:wavey:

[anieves]

I just wanted to tell you that besides the nice animation and compositing job you did here the little story is very diferent and refreshing. Nice job:thumbsup:

[kurt30]

I love the story and the stylized look. Awesome character! Great work!

[Prototype3X]

Very nice work :buttrock:

[Web Guy]

I like it allot.:beer:

It has that Tim Burton feel to it.

[tubby]

beautiful work! I love everything about it, especially the animation:thumbsup:

[artemesia66]

the story is delightful, and the animation quality matches. kudos.

[Seven]

Just stunning... that is the best animated short I have ever seen.

Amazing! :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:

[Newsquirt]

Amazing piece of work. Many have already said, but this is a brilliant piece, regardless of being a student. It should be placed among the greats...Nice story, wonderful lighting, nice acting. just a very nice piece. You should be very proud, I would be.

:eek:

[Miyazaki]

Awesome :bowdown:

[Seven]

How was the water effect achieved ?

[liQu1d]

rendering is great :thumbsup:

[Pttr]

Amazing. This is the kind of original shorts I want to see more of! You are great.

[Manta]

Great piece of animation! :thumbsup:

[grihan]

Cool! very beatiful! I love the animation, the story, the style...all!
show us more of your work!

[The Magic Pen]

brilliant and imaginative ...total pro work !!! :buttrock: :airguitar :applause:

[John Lee]

WOW WEE YEHA very good work!! very nice animation!!

John

[halo]

very nice work, a refreshing change in terms of standard

[malcolmvexxed]

That kicks so much ass. I"m amazed with all the talent on this site more people don't team up in the collaberative project forum to pool resources. I think the output would be pretty amazing

[Thelvin]

Again, thank to all!!

Man there are a lot of replies, I am amazed and honored.

So many people see such a resemblance with Tim burtons style. Honestly it is not that evident to me :o I wonder why...

Seven
The water effect was a combination of Realflow (fluid system by nextlimit) and Shake.
Maya was just used to render the mesh with a shader using a simple facing forward node.
This was latter used in post (shake) to create the final look.
I'll probably post the "how to" on my site soon!

malcolmvexxed
yes you are right, a collaborative project may proved very amazing. Not that I have the time lately, but it sounds like a good idea.

[dbach]

I love it (can't think of anyone that wouldn't). More specifically I love the animated frame, the part where the frame comes down to the father saying "stop" is amazing and highlights the moment perfectly! I am wondering if Bobo's eyes were designed to be swirly to match the candy swirls or if it was happy coincidence. At first I though that the voice acting needed some improvement but after watching it a couple of times it grew on me and I like it now.

again, awsome work!


Out,
Don

[Kieguy]

I just wanted to second everyone's positive comments on here and say this short is absolutely brilliant!!! So beautiful in color and design and story.

Really, CONGRATULATIONS!!!! :bowdown:

Like many have also said, I like the idea of using the black bars as a storytelling element. Would you accept a little idea (or two) for a tweak on the ending that came to me? (I feel funny even suggesting anything to such a wonderful animation!)

Perhaps one final touch that would also use the black bars could be, instead of a fade out to black at the end, the black bars could grow (top down & bottom up), slamming shut in the middle. Both symbolizing the father's final say in the matter, locking Bogo up in the black void of nothingness or reality crushing in. Also could symbolize the girl's eyelids closing shut!

Then...this would be totally depending on the end feeling you want to give the viewer...of course, it's now kind of a sad and depressing ending for Bogo. If you wanted to sneak in a glimmer of hope (awwww)...we could hear the Daddy click off the light and say "Sweet dreams" and shut the door. Then the black bars could open up a crack again with Bogo sticking his head out. The girl repeats, whispering, "Sweet dreams, Bogo!" and the bars gently close again as he waves goodbye, knowing that it won't be long and he'll be having more adventures in the little girl's dreams.

I know, again, that's changing the whole tone of the ending, so feel free to tell me where I can stick it :surprised :scream: or "How dare you even...!" :D Anyway, I guess my own imagination was inspired there. :lightbulb Sorry if I come off like the film is lacking or I know better your intentions...nuh uh!!! :love:

OK, enough smilies for now? OK. :shame:

;)

[rrobert]

Very nice animation, especially the transitions were made very good. I really felt sorry for this ... creature.. :p
Hope to see more in the future..

Could you do me a favor. Post a large image of your animation here. Would be nice, I guess. :applause:

Great work :thumbsup:

[khaleghi]

:bounce:
I love your sweety creatures.
It`s environmet needs more work.:thumbsup:

[Seven]

Thanks for the info Thelvin.

Again stunning :thumbsup:

[Thelvin]

Kieguy


"Perhaps one final touch that would also use the black bars could be, instead of a fade out to black at the end, the black bars could grow (top down & bottom up), slamming shut in the middle"

nice comment, it slipt my mind. Probably if i would've heard this before I would 've done it. The only problem i see is that it would resemble too much like "its no the end of the world" animation by Duran Duboi (awesome piece by the way)


Straightmark


here ya go
http://www.rsad.edu/~tcabezas/erase.jpg

Fredy
"envyroments need some work" :cry: heh just kiding. Your right, I intended to mmake them more detailed but ran out of time :o

seven
ya man no problem


lata all!
this thread is over! now lets get away from the computers :beer:

heh

[PT-Osborne]

haha!!! its not over thelvin :)

love to see all the great comments, its an amazing piece

-Patrick

[fuyu]

Thank you for making this film,Thelvin! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
It inspires me to no end:eek:

[umjetnik]

you have something thats is just as important as ability my friend, thats is a great imagination and storytelling ability. My hats off to you sir !

[GreenIce]

good style
impressive:thumbsup:

[khaleghi]

I think it`s better than your previous work.:thumbsup:

[Blud_Stane]

any links? i missed out on watching it and i love tim burton style things..

[duffe]

you can find it at:

http://www.thelvin.com/

[SkullboX]

Awesome stuff, probably the best short I've come across at CGtalk so far! :)

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