Midpoint Review: Animation and Visual Effects (2d) John Hill 143 Baggett Ln Dickson TN, 37055 03316691

July 19, 2013

Biography Highlights
BFA Media Arts and Animation, Art Institute of Atlanta. 9 years experience in art, animation and preproduction for television, online productions and games, various studios, while living in Atlanta, New York, L.A., and then Tennessee. Primary professional experience is in symbol-based flash animation and limited animation. Husband of 9 years, father of Jack, 3 yrs old. Currently working as Full Time Instructor and freelance animator.

Career Goals
Obtain MFA from AAU online in order to secure my full time teaching position and allow me the opportunity for alternative lines of employment. Gain additional control of my career growth by enhancing my current skills and portfolio. Gain skills to create additional opportunities to provide employment for students and other peers.

Resume
Animation Employment
Studio Credits (tv, video games, internet productions; incomplete) Magnetic Dreams:
Spongebob Moves In; led team of artists (4) producing 8 cut scenes; 20secs 2 mins in length for a currently unreleased tablet game Sesame Street season 42; two 45 sec short sequences: 5 Dogs, 5 Bones and 10 Doggy Kisses Elmo's Alphabet Adventure; 4 minutes of footage for straight-to-DVD title

Wildbrain:
Animated in-game loops for a majority of the villain characters, including multiple boss battles for PSN game Sideways: New York Animated entire closing cinematic for the game

Resume
Animation Employment
Studio Credits (cont.)
Animax Entertainment:
MTV Viacom: Popzilla, 22 min episodes; multiple sequences on multiple episodes ABC Family: Slacker Cats, 22 min episodes; about 6 minutes of footage for Episode 6 (Season 1 finale) and 16 minutes for Episode 7 (Season 2 premiere) Designed characters, libraries, storyboards, and animated on several productions for clients such as Disney / Pixar and Disney Consumer Products, Sesame Workshop, ESPN, and Ty

Notable freelance productions:

Chastine and Barbie Jean, short film productions with award-winning director Juliette Garrison El Doctor, clean up, traditional cel work for acclaimed independent director Suzan Pitt Trick My Truck, storyboard artist / shot layout for live action reality show on CMT / MTV 2

Resume
Teaching Employment
Accredited Institutions
Art Institute of Tennessee Nashville
3.5 years of employment, 2 years full time; Courses taught: Traditional Animation Principles, Storyboarding, Drawing for Animators, Portfolio I, II, and III, Team Production, Digital Ink and Paint, Background and Character Design; Received several awards and citations for quality

ITT Technical Institute

2 years as adjunct instructor; Taught courses from introductory draftsmanship and basic perspective to advanced Game and Graphic Design curriculum; Received several citations for quality

Art Institute of Atlanta

2 quarters as teaching assistant in Storyboarding and Drawing for Animators under Elio Guevara

Read full details:

http://www.awesometania.com/resume/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnthill

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Project Abstract
Hipposterous is about three characters: a tiny hippo with even tinier wings; Jack, a young Caucasian boy; and Lovey, a young African American girl. The hippo wants the girl's pacifier, and is taunted into inadvertently and hilariously escaping his zoo enclosure to obtain it. A fast-paced chase sequence ensues as the children seek to capture the hippo and reclaim the pacifier.

Project Proposal
PURPOSE
Demonstrate my character animation skills, to handle a variety of different actions, gestures, emotions, and mastery of timing and spacing. Provide myself with plenty of general audience appropriate demo reel material. Provide myself with plenty of full-frame animation (non-symbol based) material for my demo reel. Produce a film that I can truly promote as being mine, to garner festival, professional, and online recognition.

DELIVERABLES
Produce a short animation, fully inked and colored, and ready for submission to film festivals and any other opportunity for recognition, in DVD and digital format. Production would include all preproduction, pencil tests and other odds and ends documented on a website to garner attention before release. Additional items based on time; three main character sculptures which will serve as prototypes for vinyl toys. This is all set-up to garner interest for any potential crowd-sourced funding I may want to attempt in order to pay for festival submissions / mass producing the DVD.

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CONCERNS
I am trying to recreate the musical timing of classic cartoons, or at least a facsimile of it. This will probably require an original score, or at least some musical help. A lot of original Foley will probably be required. Completing tasks in a timely manner in order to make assisting me easy for my several busy volunteers. Getting the ink and paint of characters and backgrounds to an acceptable quality. I have no budget.

SOME SOLUTIONS
I teach at a school with an audio degree, so I expect to be able to take advantage of faculty, alumni, and students in order to overcome my sound concerns, I am also friends with two very talented musicians and I live and work in Nashville. I have reached out to artists who I am already comfortable with in terms of their inking and painting skills in order to augment my own skill set.

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SOFTWARE
Pencil tests and animation: TVPAINT, Toonboom Animate Pro2 and Harmony, Adobe Flash Backgrounds: Adobe Photoshop Compositing: Toonboom Animate Pro2 and Harmony, AfterEffects, Premiere

JUSTIFICATION
Although I know TVPAINT is a solid all-in-one animation suite, none of the people I have asked to assist me are going to own it, and I can't ask them to invest that much capital into it. Toonboom Animate Pro2 and Harmony are standard where I teach and is also owned by almost all of my current roster of assistants. They both have excellent color palette sharing abilities for quicker inking and paint and robust 3D cameras for quick multiplane effects and compositing. Photoshop and Flash are ubiquitous, although Flash will only be used as a last resort. I'll be doing final edits with Premiere.

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ROSTER OF PROPOSED ASSISTANTS
Backgrounds: Mike Meredith (Illustrator) Adam Ford (Storyboard Artist at Floyd County Productions: Archer) Kim Cranfield (Magnetic Dreams in-house Animator) Animation: Kat Kosmala (Bento Box in-house Animation Director: Bob's Burgers) Russel Jamison (professional animator) Kim Cranfield Ink and Paint: Adam Ford Kim Cranfield

STORYBOARDS AND SHOTPLANNER

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STORYBOARDS AND SHOTPLANNER

STORYBOARDS AND SHOTPLANNER

STORYBOARDS AND SHOTPLANNER

STORYBOARDS AND SHOTPLANNER

STORYBOARDS AND SHOTPLANNER

STORYBOARDS AND SHOTPLANNER

STORYBOARDS AND SHOTPLANNER

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NOTES

82 Shots 40 BG's

13 of those are Color Cards; 2 of the remaining are Looped Color Smears (for speed).

25 Real BG's

2 of which are Multiplane Shots. 1 of which is already completed as a layout. My rough estimates have the production phase taking 204 days, not counting preproduction rough design phase or any last minute compositing issues. This does not take into account getting any help during the ink or paint, or bg painting, which is not the conditions I am proposing.

Assuming 8 hour days. 204 days best case scenario. 268.5 worst case scenario. My proposed schedule gives me 365+ days.

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PROJECT REFERENCE
Animation (Timing, Use of Music, General Inspiration)
The Barley Way, student film Yellow Cake, short film Tom and Jerry (mainly earlier shorts) Looney Tunes (Road Runner, Sylvester, etc) Northwest Hounded Police (and various Droopy cartoons)

Artists Referenced: Partial List

T.S. Sullivant Fred Moore Ken Anderson Milt Kahl Marc Davis Elena "ELI" and Olivia "OLI" Ceballos Cory Loftis Guillaume Poux Chris Sanders Tom Bancroft Genevieve Tsai Jin Kim Melissa Ballesteros JessiBeans Chaichan Artwichai

Animation Performance, Pose, Expression and Design

Wreck-It Ralph, Cory Loftis designs particularly Pug Davis, Rebecca Sugar in general Ren and Stimpy An American Tail Ponyo

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Artists Referenced: Partial List cont.
Meg Park Natalie Hall Tealin

Design: Inking Quality

Kickball!, student film Crayon Dragon, student film

Backgrounds / Color UsageDocumentation

Vegeterrible, student film Lilo and Stitch

Documentation: Website
The Barley Way Black Sunrise Production blog (password required) The Goon Production blog (password required)

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TASK LIST
Primary Tasks
Midpoint Review Revisions Documentation Website (on going) Background Design Layouts Paint

Primary Tasks cont.

Foley Score Fx Animation R&D Pencil Test Ink and Paint

Layout Poses 1 Half

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2nd Half

Secondary Tasks
DVD Packaging DVD Production Sculpt Maquettes CGI versions Prep for 3D Printer 3D Printer Prototype

Pencil Test 1st Half 2nd Half

Ink and Paint 1st Half 2nd Half

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PRODUCTION SCHEDULE
Summer 2013 (June September) Hours a week: 25 minimum, 48 maximum AAU (June 17th Aug. 7th) ANM628 Fundamentals of Digital Animation (Last req. Studio) GLA611 Cultural Narratives (Last GLA) AITN (June 15th July 8th) Summer break. No other obligations outside family and AAU 40 hr week minimums during this time period. AITN (July 8th - Sept. 14th) Teaching four courses Mon Wed. Available to do some work during class times, but not guaranteed for time budgeting. Guaranteed Available hours: Thurs Saturday 8 hours a day minimum

Fall 2013 (September December) Hours a week: 25 minimum AAU (September 5th December 21st) ANM 634 Trad Animation 3 (Required ANM 800 Directed Study) Elective by Advisement AITN (September 30th December 14th) Teaching three courses. Daily schedule undetermined. NOT WORKING December 22nd January 8th Holidays plus 10th Wedding Anniversary

PRODUCTION SCHEDULE
Spring 2014 (January May) Hours a week: 25 minimum AAU (Feb. 3rd May 17th) ANM 802 Directed Study ANM 261 Effects Animation AITN (Jan. 13th March 29th) Teaching three courses. Daily schedule undetermined. AITN (April 7th June 21st) Teaching three courses. Daily schedule undetermined.

Summer 2014 (June September) Hours a week: 25hrs minimum AAU (June. 16th Aug. 6th) ANM 801-13 Group Directed Study: Traditional Animation ANM 802-1 Thesis Forum AITN (July 14th Sept. 27th) Teaching three courses. Daily schedule undetermined.

Fall 2014 (September December) Hours a week: 25 minimum AAU (Sept. 4th Dec. 20th) GLA 670 Professional Practices for ANM/VFX/GAM ANM 801-13 Group Directed Study: Traditional Animation AITN (Oct. 6th Dec. 20th) Teaching three courses. Daily schedule undetermined.

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