Some follow up to the Rhapsody with James screenings after the Budapest premiere. The film will be shown in three more European places in the next two months. Be sure to check it out if you happen to be somewhere around:
Milano film festival: Milano, Italy (12.-21.September. The film will be screened as part of “Maratona Animazione”)
Fantastisk Filmfestival: Lund, Sweden (18.-27. September)
Animatu: Beja, Portugal (15.-19. October)
I was just notified that Rhapsody with James has been selected into Budapest short film festival! The festival will be held from 3.-7. September which also sets the premiere date. Yay!
You can find the complete ‘Budapest short film festival’ competition selection here:
http://www.busho.hu/?menuID=program&pageID=08program&lang=en
This is an extract from a commercial I worked on quite some time ago (end of last year) but just didn’t find the time to post it here since I was overwhelmed with Rhapsody with James. I created character setup for the moose and character animation in two shots (those with ‘CA’ in the right top corner).
I’ve created a small site for ‘Rhapsody with James’ with some images and full credits. Nothing biggie yet but I’ll update the site with more info in the future.
This is an image from the first shot of the movie. This is the only shot in the movie with quite a lot of overpainting done in Photoshop. Since only the first two buildings on the right are actually shown from different angle later in the movie I decided that only those two buildings will get full texture work done in 3d. For the most parts of other buildings I just did a light pass with simple shaders (no textures) and then painted those details in Photoshop.
Sometimes there are shots that require models not used in any other shot. And they just happen to be very short, sometimes less than 2 seconds. You have to do all the models, textures and lighting that are not reusable for any other part of the film. In the end the time you spend per frame on the shot is well…. quite high.
Below is one of those shots from ‘Rhapsody with James’, visible for 46 frames…







