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“Roadkill Redemption” by Karl Hadrika

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A nighttime driver is haunted by the ghost of a raccoon she hits with her car. A bittersweet comedy poking fun at the fragility of life and the consequences of careless driving.

41st Annual Student Academy Award Finalist

© 2013 Karl Hadrika

Making of: karlhadrika.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-making-of-roadkill-redemption_14.html

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“Just Feel” performed by Carol Williams and owned by Verse Music Group

story, animation, modeling, rigging, comp, editing, lighting and sound design by Karl Hadrika

voice: Lidia Labuda

Hardware used: HP workstations; software used: Autodesk Maya, Pixar Renderman, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop, and TVPaint.

 

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“Haring” by Davor Bujakovic & Junaid Chundrigar

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Haring tells the tale of Diederik, a guy who makes the mistake of eating a herring right before a date. When he finds out his fishy breath destroys everything in its path, he does his best to get rid of the smell, while also trying to reach his date in time.

Haring was made with the collaboration from the Netherlands Film Fund, SNS Reaal and Pathé and was made for the 2014 UltraKort program. The film screened in front of Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” in all Dutch Pathé cinemas. It was made using TVPaint.

HARING

WRITTEN, DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY
Davor Bujakovic & Junaid Chundrigar

ANIMATED AND COLORED BY
Davor Bujakovic
Tom Mourik
Erwin Langstraat

BACKGROUNDS BY
Anna Engels

MUSIC BY
Jochem Weierink

SOUND DESIGN AND MIX BY
Erik Griekspoor

VOICES BY
Erik Griekspoor
Lana Topalovic
Junaid Chundrigar

SPECIAL THANKS TO
Lana Topalovic
Egbert de Ruiter
Roloff de Jeu

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F. David Meyers

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What is your name and your current occupation?
F. David Meyers, 3D story artist on the Clone Wars animated series at Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation? 
I was a Ink Retoucher for a photo lab (covered up spots on developed photos by hand), Checkout Supervisor at Kmart, trust me it was crazy.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of? 
I love working on the Clone Wars a lot!! It’s a dream of mine to work on Star Wars.
I also really enjoyed working on Team Smithereen with the Dan Clark company.  That was one of the funnest jobs I ever had.

How did you become interested in animation? 
As a kid, films like Mary Poppins and Sleeping Beauty were magic to me.  I wanted to be a part of that.
I think it was a culmination of the love of drawing and the idea that animation is a legitimate form of storytelling and fine art together.

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business? 
I am from Orange County in Southern California.  I got into the industry by Continue reading

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Olu Alemoru

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What is your name and your current occupation? 
Olu Alemoru — Snr Staff Writer Wave Publications and Director of Nutmeg Animations Ltd.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Well, I’m not working in animation per se, but I do have a couple of animation projects that I am developing.  One is called “Nutmeg,” an adventure story with contemporary and imaginary elements that follows the life and times of gender-breaking Afro-Latina soccer star Louise Sage.  The other is entitled “The Adventures of Ant Dog,”  a satirical concept about a lovable loser (a black Homer Simpson, if you will) who wins a million dollar ride on the first commercial space flight and gets zapped into another world where he will battle a great evil.  In terms of crazy jobs, the Ant Dog character is based on a crazy cat I met while working as a roller skating stock clerk in a warehouse.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of? 
The above two.

How did you become interested in animation? 
I’ve been a long-time fan of cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny and the wonderful fourth-wall imagery of Tex Avery. Back in the day my favorite cartoons were Continue reading

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Cheyenne Curtis

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Cheyenne Curtis and im currently working for Disney Television Animation

 

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
In Montreal i once worked at this really shady linen store that had no bathrooms. Since i worked alone all day,  i used to have to call friends to come over and watch the store for me while i ran to the bathroom! The good part of that story is working alone all day meant some nice sketching time when the store was empty.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I’ve had so much fun doing character designs and layouts for the Disney TV pilot i’m working on, Daron Nefcy and Dave Wasson are so amazing to work with!

How did you become interested in animation?
Originally i had no idea that animation could be a career! I was in Studio Arts at Concordia University in Montreal and i remember feeling like i didn’t quite belong, even though everyone was interested in art.  Luckily one of my friends suggested Sheridan Institute in Oakville, and i applied and got in! I had never done Continue reading

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Dave Redl

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Dave Redl.  Gun for hire cartoonist/animator/animation director and for corporate America, “New Media Director” (which means I make stuff move on computers.)

 


What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I worked in construction building low income housing in Newark NJ where I saw a 10 year old strip an abandoned car under a minute while nailing up roofing shingles.  I worked in a garden center that was struck by lightning and crashed a golf cart used to transport flats of geraniums because I was listening to Led Zeppelin on my Walkman.  I worked a night shift at a factory loading clothes onto trucks with a dude named Steve, also a Zeppelin fan, who proudly showed me a corner in the rafters that was hidden from security cameras, perfect for naps and complete with a potato sac bed.  Unfortunately, I split before solving the mystery of which restroom was used by fellow co-worker, “Roberto” who had ridiculously enormous and feminine breasts.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
All of them.  If they put food on the table and made my boss happy… I was proud of them.  Not every gig you get looks good, possibly due to “tweaking” or “corporate politics” so you must find pride in doing what you can with what you got.  For example, I was Layout Animation Supervisor, where I drew nothing for a TV show canceled during production!  But the people I worked with had kind things to say.  That left me proud of being a good boss even though I have nothing on my reel to show for it.

 

How did you become interested in animation?
For as long as I can remember.  But growing up on The Smurfs, I preferred