Dec 15, 2009

Princess and the Frog

So Princess and the Frog had it's wide release this past Friday. Right now it sits at just over $27 million. Amanda and I had a really great experience working on the film. We were only working on it for about 3 months over the summer at Yowza Animation, wish it could have lasted longer but we came on really close to the end of the production.
We both learned a lot from doing clean-up. It was kind of a void that we never really went over at school but I'm a lot more comfortable with it now. Even when it comes to animation, I think we picked up a few things here and there that will help us down the road.


Left to Right: Pierre Chiasson, Boris Maras, Claude Chiasson, Amanda Zima, and Roger Chiasson

In total, we worked on about 7 scenes in the movie.Ranging from doing a lot of clean-up inbetweens and breakdowns to scenes that only needed a few clean-up inbetweens. It was fun when we split up scenes and got to collaborate with some Sheridan grads Matt Kalinauskas, Mario Richard and Nick Watson. When the DVD comes out I want to screencap the scenes we worked on and post those too.

Left to Right: Amanda Zima, John Musker, Boris Maras, and Ron Clements

Yeah, so hopefully we can do this again. It was a pleasure working with everyone and there's some extremely talented people working there. I think the movie looks gorgeous. Ron, John, everyone at Disney,and everyone from the partner studios did a marvelous job! Congrats everybody!

Now it's back to working on my graduate short film. It's coming along, I want to get stuff up on the blog soon but more importantly I have to finish some work before the winter break.

6 comments:

  1. That's so awesome!! I'm glad you guys had such a good time, it looked like such a great studio to work at! The animation was all I could focus on when I saw it last weekend, must've been incredible to see it up close every day! I'll have to hound Mario about it when I get back to New Brunswick!

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  2. Just saw the film yesterday, it was awesome.. I totally loved it :) Jennifer and I saw your name in the credits and we fully geeked out X) Congratulations!!

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  3. congrats, you guys! we found your name in the credits too! but couldn't find matt or mario..

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  4. Thanks guys! :D

    Tapan, they've gotta be there, they did much more than us! :p Though I also didn't notice theirs, I was in a panic trying to find our names since the names were all bunched together and going so fast! I found mine and then one of our friends pointed out Boris' :D

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