Pitch: Part 2: Formal Pitch Development

Due Class 3

Choose one of your ideas and create a formal pitch presentation, with visuals:

Concept Art:  At least one illustration (can be rough, but it should give us a good idea of what the theme and intent of the film is).  This will be used as visual aids in explaining your story premise. Examples: 

Pitch: Part 1: Loglines and General Concept

Come up with 1-3 ideas for an animated short film and post them on your blog.  Try to keep in mind your general skill sets and interests.  The recommended length is a Logline and a short synopsis (roughly a paragraph) describing your ideas.  You may include visuals but you don't have to.

What do you want from this project?  What do you want the project to say about you?  If there are skills you're more comfortable with and want to show off (backgrounds, character animation, colors, music, etc.) make a project that compliments your style.

Assignment I: Blog

Go to Blogger and create your own blog for this class. You will be using Blogger to walk us through your progress, as well as showing the final products - final style design, character design, animatic and final animation. Think of the blog as a studio production blog - a vessel used to reach out to your audience and keep them excited about your progress.

The blog will be graded at the end of the semester as your participation grade.  

Aaron Blaise's 7 Steps to a Great Character Design

Aaron Blaise's 7 Steps to a Great Character Design, using his Polar Bear character from his short film "Snow Bear."

UT Production Acting Cast

UT Film Casting group has access to student actors and local talent - great potential reference actors and voice actors!!