My animated short Small Talk recently finished screening at the Multimatograf VI Festival in Vologda, Russia. Multimatograf VI sponsored by Kaspersky Antivirus and Studio ToonBox ran through the end of March and recently finished. Unfortunately I was not able to place in the Cartoon category as there were deserving winners for that. It was fun preparing my animation for the Festival, the translation process was an ordeal that worked out actually smoothly thanks to Anastasia Tokareva, who was one of the organizers of the festival. Much love Anastasia!
I will strengthen my animations in terms of scene design and more adherence to the 12 Principles of Animation (i’ll get in to that in a later post) as well as modeling my own characters as the characters in Small Talk were modeled and rigged by John Doublestein, The Animation Workshop, and Jason Baskin. I am including my short below as well as the first place short Shaman’s Mysteries by Arthur Merkulov.
Small Talk (with Russian subtitles)
http://vimeo.com/10947703
Shaman’s Mysteries by Arthur Merkulov