Short Film - "Saloon"

[neo4trinity303]

Great Short! I love it! The story is classic, the cartooning modeling and coloring is awesome! Great characters.... and most importantly great animation. You gave the male character great shy yet trying to be bold characteristics!! Two Thumbs way up, this will land you a job, good luck!!

Darrell

[Remi]

Looks really nice, the walking part reminded me a bit of woody's walk in TS2. Great job, I really liked it!!!

[travishowe]

Hahaha! GREAT job! The story is very cute, and the animation is great as well. Do you have any planning sketches or animatics you can post?

[ivanisavich]

This was really impressive! Probably the best short I've seen come out of VFS...wonderful facial animation, cute story and great aesthetic. Great job!!

[Jeremydjutras]

a wonderful short, liked the style. I like the fun you put into the timing.

[smileyme]

hahaha! I really love this. Kept watching it over and over again. The overall feel is really nice. Love the modelling, color and lighting, and the animation is fantastic!! :thumbsup:

[veljko-lemonade]

Excellent animation-
the story was simple but effective and show cased your animation skills well-

nice:)!

[alaa-afifah]

wow good story telling and good animation simply its stunning work
keep...up

[thiagolima]

Hey!

Thanks for all the words, it is very inspiring and really good to know that all of you like it. It was a long journey for me to complete this film, many changes, and a reeally tight schedule to do everything, Good time :) The first idea was to have it all very simple about the colour and render, probably some simple shaders with just an occlusion on it, but I put more time on making it colourful :)

Remi: Yeah, I knew that I wanted a cowboy walk by that moment, so basically as reference I had this part of Woody walking on TS2 as well as myself recorded and a few thumbnails, I kept it more on the way that I had in mind, but still got the mood and timing from that particular shot on Toy Story 2, was fun to make it.

travishowe: Yes! I have already done little video showing a few things, kinda a making of, but I also have other things that I didn't put there, such as the very first storyboards and the concept developing of the character.

Cheers!

[Michael5188]

Just wanna add I loved it as well! So entertaining, and brilliant animation!

[Piramide]

legal cara! parabéns
nice short !! :)

[h-axis]

Hey Thiago !! It's Hassan, DCA22, glad to bump into you on cgsociety !

Glad things are working out for you ! I'll add you to my list.

I just did an update to my VFX reel. You can check it out here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDyO6sgbEcU


Good luck,
Hassan

[Juleshortstuff]

You already know this, Thiago, but I absolutely love this short, so I'm going to gush about it some more. You did a great job with all aspects of it from the design to the color scheme to the blend shapes for the liquid on the milk. But the best part is the awesome acting and great sense of comic timing. You really brought the characters to life. Really well done, my friend. I applaud you.

[sundialsvc4]

Very nice... from the opening credits right through to the end.

The cartoon-style animation was well done, but what I think really works the best here is that there is a very strong sense of story. The shots are well laid out visually, with proper attention to "stage business" on the part of the bartender, who "never does anything but who never stops doing nothing."

The opening shots of "Woody" were particularly impressive to me because in just a very few flawlessly-executed shots you established who this guy is... he's savoring that glass of beer, and then ... :love:

[TDank]

Once again, great work Thiago, you truly set the bar at VFS for 3D animation with this piece.

[RobertoOrtiz]

Loved the animation...
Plugged.

[silentman]

That was great and its so funny :thumbsup:

[Bygzam]

Hay Thiago!
it's me Poping!
nice to see your work in the front page!
and i love the charater you add, works really well.
GL man!

[BigDaddy]

Awsome! I like it very much!

[Tasimasu]

Great effort. nice and clean animation. I love the part, after cowboy switching the bull full speed. brillant storytelling going on there.

[ooLupe]

Funny short. You did a great job on the cowboys facial animation when he didn't want to change the speed on the bull. That was fun to watch.

[blueworks]

Thiago!! excellent job... I was glad to meet you at VFS. Keep up the good work and I hope you get a job in Pixar, you have a lot of potential.



Best regards,

Gilberto Sánchez
3D Animation and Visual Effects
Bluework Studios

[MrPositive]

Nicely executed. I concur with everyone else, that the defining moment was him having to go full speed on the bull.

[VrodRick]

What a great short! Awesome work

[thiagolima]

Once again, great work Thiago, you truly set the bar at VFS for 3D animation with this piece.

Hey mister Terry! Thanks a lot buddy. It was very good to kinda be part of your class and spend the 2 extras months with you guys. Cheers!

[thiagolima]

Wow, thanks a lot RobertoOrtiz and CG Talk for the plug. Such good surprise and I am very pleased that you guys enjoyed it. As I said, I am gonna prepare some sort of making of video to show some of the steps that I went throughout the production.

And Thanks for all the kind comments too, it helps a lot encouraging to carry on. Cheers DCAmates! Glad see you guys arround!

[firstsingle]

Great short Thiago. I enjoyed. You should be fine getting a job.

[Ville]

Hey man, great work indeed!! Congratz on the very well deserved plug!

Go DCA!! indeed setting the bar higher! Greg must be proud :)

Abracao!
Daniel

[imageflood]

Thiago, congrats on such a great film! It was great to work with you, you were the most dedicated animator!! Keep in touch!

-Chris Beintema

[kiteman]

awesome work ! :)

thanks for sharing.

clement

[Johnseventine]

I'll never forget this! congrat!

[Cheynecg]

Favorite thing, the guys walk over to the Bull. Hilarious! :applause:

[AndHolzmeister]

Fantastic Thiago! really enjoyed it! :bounce:

[thiagolima]

Lorenzo, I hope so, hehe that's my next big plan, get a job :) fingers crossed!

Daniel: I saw your comment on youtube as well, cheers man! Yeah, Greg was a great teacher and mentor, great professional.

I could have a very nice mentors to help all along the production, and thanks Chris, glad you liked the time spent by, so did I, definitely keeping in touch buddy.

clement and john: Thanks alot, glad you like the film!

Cheyne: That's one of my favorites too, hehe cool you like it, thanks

Hey André: Thanks too mate! Nice you enjoyed! I appreciate.

[aku88]

Wow, absolutely wow. I really love the timing and the storytelling in this whole short... not to mention the adorable ending! Congratulations!!

[keenerbean]

Hahaha, cool, very cool. I love the super, goody goody look of the cowboy esp. when he's about to enjoy his tall, cold, pint of...milk. Lol. Nice work!

[ghe]

Very cool! I like the blocking also!

[LoVeMeR]

heh awesome animation. love the story. Nice style of the actors n environment ;-). 5*

[ofir_b]

Great short!

I would end it with a little twist:

The guy flew out of a machine outside rather than flying to the bar, Then comes another guy and the girl tries to get him to ride it aswell.

At the end we see the girl counting money and we understand that she owns the machine :)

[thiagolima]

Thanks for replying guys! Mentioning about the character and concept, just following I will post a few images with some of the character development and other things that I hope you like. Also the clip that I saied before.

ofir_b: Interesting you say that, hehe along the story development I had those two ideas but not together, one came after the other. The second idea for the ending of the film was to have him having such trouble riding that he would be thrown off the saloon and then coming back all embarrassed about the situation, the thumbnails that I gonna post later has some of the shots about it. And about the twist, some of the mentors suggested this, would be funny to, thanks!

[thiagolima]

So, here are some of the drawings and sketches that I did for the film, unfortunately I lost the pages that I made the sketches for the animations. Also I am putting a screenshot of the stevie rig and the textures that I made, which I didn't spend a lot of time on them, I just made something that I felt comfortable with to achieve the rendering look that I wanted :), really short time to make the things. Right next I will post the thumbnails and the link to the video that I made.

Cheers!

Character Concept Development:

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8356/stevieconceptdevelopmen.jpg


Few Sketches:

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/8895/steviesketches.jpg


Textures:

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/6466/stevietextures.jpg

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1283/bulltextures.jpg

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2774/settextures.jpg


Stevie Rig:

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/7285/stevierig.jpg

[thiagolima]

Yup, here more, story development thumbnails and the video for the making of. Those thumbnails are out of sequence, some of the boards was changed or just not used.

Cheers!

http://www.thiagolm.com/Saloon/makingof.html (FLV) (http://www.thiagolm.com/Saloon/makingof.html)

Youtube version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzAp7YQpq1w)

Thumbnails:

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/6329/thumbnails01.jpg

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7038/thumbnails02.jpg

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9156/thumbnails03.jpg

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/354/thumbnails04.jpg

[alexandre3d]

Your Short is amazing. I love your short poster too. All the aspects are great, but your modeling and animation style is outstanding. So keep up the good work specially been a brazilian guy!!! Parabens Thiago!!! Congratulations Thiago !!!

[chindian]

Parabens rapaz!!! Really great work here... it's great to see good animation coming out of VFS still! Best of luck to you in the job search!

[sdserbos]

That was so much fun. Great work.

[AlexandroCastro]

pretty good, excelent animation, congratulations brazuca.

[mozen]

Wow, what a great little piece!

The animation told the whole story, which isn't that easy to do. I'm surprised that this came from the VFS. Overall this film is fantastically done!

[thiagolima]

Hey guys! Thanks a lot for enjoying the film! It's really nice to know you like, and also to see the presence of brazilians :)

Cheers!

Wow, what a great little piece!

The animation told the whole story, which isn't that easy to do. I'm surprised that this came from the VFS. Overall this film is fantastically done!

Mozen, thanks a lot mate I really appreciate your words! At the VFS, it was a really great time. I saw many jobs that wasn't quite there yet, but we can always see the effort of the student on accomplishing it. But, what I always have in mind is that the most important piece for any course that we choose to attend is our self, the student is the one who make the course, for sure. So, it's all up to us. Of course that the school maters, but still. Thanks again!

[Nicholas-Silveira]

Hi Thiago,

I remember watching your reel at VFS. The Animation, Renders, and over all Concept is pretty AMAZING!!!

Great Job!
:thumbsup::thumbsup:


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Nicholas Silveira
Rigger / Modeler
nicholas.silveira.blogspot.com (http://www.nicholas-silveira.blogspot.com/)
www.linkedin.com/in/nicholassilveira (http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholassilveira)

[Nicholas-Silveira]

Wow, what a great little piece!

The animation told the whole story, which isn't that easy to do. I'm surprised that this came from the VFS. Overall this film is fantastically done!

Just wondering why are you surprised that this short came out of VFS?

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Nicholas Silveira
Rigger / Modeler
nicholas.silveira.blogspot.com (http://www.nicholas-silveira.blogspot.com/)
www.linkedin.com/in/nicholassilveira (http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholassilveira)

[Dc5RAGE]

Awesomeness.

[thiagolima]

Hey Nicholas! Thanks man! Your work was a such good one too, congrats again. Cheers!


Thanks Calvin! hehe

[SlowDaddie]

Awesome! Good luck man!

[Luca_CGTALK]

Muito bom Thiago, primeiríssima qualidade, parabéns!!

[TobyArt]

Excellent work!! Is Magic still teaching you guys over there?

[thiagolima]

Hey! I was away these day, thanks a lot for the words!

Excellent work!! Is Magic still teaching you guys over there?

Zyrinx, yes! Magic still teaching at VFS, he wasn't my teacher though, once I attended the Digital Character Animation program, however I met him and we had a few talks, great person he is. And thanks too!

[mosena]

Congratulations on the great job Thiago ! you deserve it. And i want to say that you are an amazing animator, really talented guy who works hard to achieve what you want.What you did here in VFS will be remembered forever because to do what you did in less than 6 months is remarkable.Again congrats on your work and thank you for all your help.

* * * * * Stars!!!

[Escopos]

Wow! Great Job! I loved the story and animation you did. That's a hell of a lot o work you got in there for the amount of time available at the school! Congrats, you have a bright future ahead of ya! :thumbsup:

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