Common Ground: Online

I just found that Forester Films has put Common Ground online.
 Here is the line for that http://foresterfilms.com/common-ground/

Here it is on Vimeo!
 
Common Ground from Cara Bolley on Vimeo.


Also on IMDB http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi3145114137/

Common Ground: Showcase

So tuesday was our premiere at Huntington University. We had our showcase and awards. I'm proud to say that Common Ground got runner up Junior Projects. I'll be sending out Common Ground to fests soon so more updates when that happens.

Common Ground: Posters

Common Ground: Wrap Up

So we are on our final week of production. Friday at 10 is our deadline, so here is hoping. Right now the reel has been turned over to Matt Nelson for sound. I'm working on making smoke, which was the only thing I've animated this semester. We took our set down today also. This is such a sad, yet happy feeling. I'll see all my props and sets again in a year when i set them up for senior gallery.

Our wrap up todo list

Mike's poster pose

tear down, Nelson is actually helping not just photo bombing

Take 1 

Animating Smoke

No longer my home (Matt Nelson's set is in the front and the one in back is Johan Leev's)

My poor set in storage

Illustration Friday: Heights

Time for a Illustration Friday and Common Ground Mashup.
I'm working on the poster of my film and started splicing the pan up shot together to get one image. Ironically this tied into Common Ground so here it is the heights of the Common Ground city.

Behind the Scenes at Common Ground: Animation Complete!!!!!!

So we just wrapped on our final shot for Common Ground earlier today. Well I guess it's yesterday now since it is past midnight now. I've kinda fallen back on the blog post lately since I've been focusing on getting these last few shots done. So I'll be adding the photos from the past couple of shots.

Working on edging pieces

the building with the edging

The shape of the bus by Matthew Weener and I've started on carving out the windows

my graffiti and trash can

Awning (for some reason the whole time I worked on it I couldn't think of this word)

The bus all finished

ready to shoot shot 4

Diann Malcolm painting my firetruck

The finished firetruck

Shot 13 in progress

The beginnings of the fire scene

Darkening the thomas cole painting

the painting looks so interesting this way

Debris and ash on the steps

I think the firetruck is slacking off

The painting burned

Behind the Scenes at Common Ground : Shot 4 / Shot 10

This week I learned I'm not really a graffiti artist and finalized the wide shot sets.

edge pieces

edgers on the building

Bus base

graffiti and trash can

Awning 

Behind the Scenes at Common Ground : Shot 6

This shot is our longest one to do. Mike spent a couple days animating this one.

Butch in the dumpster

I made a bag of trash. Filled with real trash from building sets.

The trash pile

Animation station setup

baby chicks came to visit

Mike working on the shot

Common Ground : Butch Turnaround

Here's the turnaround of butch.
More turnarounds to come!

Behind the Scenes at Common Ground : Shot 3 / Shot 7 / Shot 11

We this week we had 3 shots to get through. These shots revolve around the bench and the bus stop part of our set. We thought we would try to do some time-lapses also using my computers webcam. They aren't the best quality but they do show how we work and how towards the end we get really excited about be animators.

Time-lapse for our scene 3

Waiting for bus

A dark alley?

Matt made me a sandwich how nice of him. 

Cinnamon toast crunch?

The big picture for scene 3

Bus stop sign

Setting up Scene 7

Butch napping under papers

Matt gave me a sandwich but I made it moldy

the beginnings of a firetruck

Matt with the firetruck (1st version)

The Animator for shot 11 Matthew Weener

We will be reshooting part of shot 11 with a better more updated firetruck. I just ran out of time to make things with my graphic novel, a film shoot a whole day, and closing the library 3 nights in a row.