Animation Capstone Production Blog
Welcome to the flood of ideas.

Creating: An Adventure…We did it!
I have a completed capstone animated short film!! A year and a half later, I have conceptualized, brainstormed, storyboarded, collaborated on the script and voice

Final Week
As we enter the final week of this 1.5 year process, I finally have a full film. I am using the next 7 days to

Houston, we have an ocean.
After many issues, setbacks, and crashed renders, we have an ocean! I now can start on the background and character implementation over the weekend. I’ll

Milestone 12 Progress
I finished a lot of work over the past week! Stop motion animation is complete, I have half of the additional 2D character added, and

Stop Motion Take 3
Finished another pass on my stop motion section. After receiving feedback from one of my professors, I had more ideas on what to do in

Full Pass Update
I have moved my schedule around a bit, but I am still on schedule! Here are the updates: The first section is 99% complete! There

Houdini Ocean
The Houdini Ocean is underway! After playing around with the program, meeting with my professor, and a long render time, I have a new plan.

Houdini
Throughout winter break, my main goal has been to learn Houdini’s modeling software in order to best animate my final ocean scene. It has been

Pass 1 Complete!
It is finals week and I am finished with pass 1 of my capstone animation! Even though it is still rough and I have a

Stop Motion 1st Pass
Officially have the first pass complete for my stop motion section (scene 2)! This is probably at least the 5th pass since I did many

Full Scene 1 Pass 2
Worked a lot over Thanksgiving Break and now have the transitions in place for scene 1. The lines in the middle part of this scene

Ocean Style Test
I am currently deciding between animating the last part of my capstone in 3D, 2D, or a combination. Here is my test of a 2D

Ocean Testing
Time to move to C4D! I started running tests on how I want the final third of my animation to look. Currently I am testing

Full Scene 1
I am finished with the first pass of 1/3 of my whole animation! The first half of the 2D section has a second pass complete

Stop Motion Set
The stop motion set is 90% complete! Utilizing brown packing paper, cardboard, tape, assorted rocks, I have a set design that I think works really

Scene 1 Pass 1
Just finished the first pass on a quarter of my film! My animation has changed a lot in the past few weeks and I really

Production Schedule
Here is my official production schedule for Creating: An Adventure! I love planning and organizing data. This process has shown me that my passion leans

Videomatic
Finished up my videomatic – since there are no characters in my piece, I focused on trying to replicate the scenery. This was a little

Simplifying Styles
After going to an AJR concert, I decided to change the style of the first part of animation. I love what AJR does with their

Animatic…Part 2
Happy first week of Senior year! Hard to believe it is already here. I spent the summer working a lot….and by a lot I mean

Animatic
And like that, the semester is over. This semester has been a whirlwind and I am pleased to announce that I now have a first

Creating: An Adventure
Hello and welcome to my production blog: home of all of the highs, lows, and the entire process that comes with making an animated short