“Once upon a time, in a magical and far away land…” Sounds simple enough to read, right? Well, apparently, not so…
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We’ve stepped away from doing the Animation Diaries over the weekend because of filming. So to get caught up, we’ve uploaded two Diaries today (parts 4 & 5)! Part 5 here introduces you to our little friend we call, Twit’r! John explains how we make our feathered friend take flight.
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Music makes up half of any film. Sometimes, the right song can express the tone of a scene better than any words can. In researching music, we turn to our collection of Disney music – with a little bit of help from a techno version of Little Mermaid’s “Part Of Your World” found on YouTube. In part 4 of the Animation Diaries, Jevon shows us how the right (or wrong) song selection can really make or break a scene.
Animation Diary, Part 4 \\ Music from Starcross’d Creative on Vimeo.
Just as in any Disney princess movie, we had to have a musical number in our film. And rather than having Mae actually sing, we decided to make things simpler by using the actual song that was sung by Mary Costa in Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.” In this edition of our Animation Diaries, John describes the animating process necessary in giving our character’s a voice.
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A good screenwriter would do plenty of research when writing a script that has a specific genre. Proper research can lead to great inspiration. Someone writing a biopic on a person would probably talk to friends and family of that person to find out how others perceive him/her. Or someone writing a epic war film would probably listen to stories from war veterans.
In part 2 of the Animation Diaries, Jevon and John discuss the careful research process we take in thinking up a story that is comparable to an actual Disney fairy tale.
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During the production of our first ever animated concept film, we will show you the process we go through in producing this Disney-inspired short film. Our film is entitled “A True Love’s Story,” and it takes from the story structure of Disney’s “Enchanted.”
For the first part of our Animation Diaries, John gives us a quick tour of the first step in our animation – which is to draw concept character designs for our couple, Pat and Mae.
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Starcross’d is featured in the May issue of EventDV magazine!! And we were all so excited to discover that we were also featured on the cover (special thanks to Brian Abiva Photography for producing such cool photos)!
And a big thank you goes to Editor-in-Chief Stephen Nathans-Kelly for deciding to do this piece on our studio, and to Elizabeth Avery Merfeld for writing an awesome article. It’s a real honor!
Here’s a link to read the article:
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To complement the piece, we were asked to create a short “how to” video on the making of our concept film, Sin City Love Story. So in the spirit of Robert Rodriguez, I created a 5-Minute Film School and an All Green Screen Version! You can view these featurettes on the above link or on vimeo here:
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Sin City – All Green Screen Version from Starcross’d Creative on Vimeo.