B.Ki! Animation

Photographs on vimeo

2011-06-30T16:11:00.000-07:00

Here is a link for our thesis! Enjoy!

http://vimeo.com/19606832

Festival Update!

2011-02-10T10:05:00.000-08:00

Hi friends!

Here is an update on our festival screenings so far:

In March, I will be going to Marrakech, Morocco for "Photographs"'s first film festival, "Rencontre Sous la Tente 2011". I am really excited!

We have also been accepted to NFFTY 2011 (National Film Festival for Talented Youth), in Oregon.

We are still in the middle of submitting and hearing back, so (hopefully) there will be more updates to come!

"Photographs" screens, and new project!!

2010-12-17T20:04:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone!

"Photographs" is OFFICIALLY DONE!! We screened for the first time on Wednesday, and we were really happy with the feedback we received. Thanks to everyone who came out to see it, you guys rock. Next up, we're planning to hit the festival circuit, so the film will not be online for a while. However, if you are interested in receiving a copy, just let us know!

We apologize for the lack of updates, but now that the film is finally finished, we really wanted to post some tutorials on how Brendan did the BGs, and some of our preliminary pencil tests. Keep checking back to see them!

Well that was pretty wordy, to make up for it here are some images for B.Ki! Animation's new project, already in the works!

Blast off!

2010-10-30T21:48:00.000-07:00

An animation drawing we thought was funny. Brendan added the blast off powers to her boots. More actual update stuff to follow soon.

Oh yeah, this scene is the LAST CHARACTER SCENE from our film, and the second to last scene we have left to do clean-up animation on. We are right on schedule to finish production this weekend! Needless to say, we are both really happy to finally move on to post and compositing.

Boot Pan

2010-09-12T00:31:00.001-07:00

New pan BG, the interior of our lady's house.

Almost done with all the BGs!

natural habitat

2010-08-21T20:41:00.000-07:00

Brendan and my home away from home, the animation lab. Brendan and I made those heads sitting my desk, and Zack is responsible for all the post its. One of these days I will have to post close ups of all the post it drawings, they are all really good and often involve violence and/or vomiting. :)

BG for pan

2010-08-21T20:34:00.001-07:00

crumbly building pan.

finished shot on vimeo

2010-08-20T23:42:00.000-07:00

finished shot from B.Ki.Animation on Vimeo.

It's finished!! Except for maybe some minor tweaking this shot is just about done. It is nice to finally see shots from the movie finally coming together, even if they are super short like this one. Hope you like it!

MORE BGS!!!

2010-07-07T08:59:00.000-07:00

2010-06-24T00:12:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of BGs in progress for our film!

TRAILER! :)

2010-06-02T14:00:00.000-07:00

Hello to everyone who still checks this (very poorly maintained) blog!

Here is an update on what is happening with our film and the B.Ki! Animation team:

We weren't able to finish our film this past semester due to some really exciting opportunities that we decided were too good to pass up. In March-April, we got the chance to work on the pilot episode of Young Justice as storyboard revisionists at WB (Thanks to our storyboarding professor Jay Oliva)! Brendan graduated in May and moved to Burbank to continue working at WB full time. I will be at Sony Pictures Imageworks starting this month as part of their IPAX program, training to be a 3d animator. And, both of us will continue to work on the film until it is done! We are anticipating finishing by August, and screening in December. Since this is our first film together, it means a lot to both of us to see it through! For now, we posted our trailer online and you can see it here:

http://vimeo.com/11568702

(The music is "We have a map of the piano" by Mum)

The animation was done by me, and the backgrounds were drawn and painted digitally by Brendan.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for reading :)

Kiki

Another screen shot!

2010-02-22T18:10:00.000-08:00

Screen_shot

2010-02-05T16:10:00.000-08:00

This is a sample of what the final look of our film may be like. *Image has been updated*

2010-01-06T00:04:00.000-08:00

Still a work in progress, but its kinda more complete than before.

2009-12-20T10:48:00.000-08:00

more! (some layouts)

2009-12-07T23:56:00.001-08:00

layout from sc 1

layout of amusment park.

camera gets even.

layout/storyboard

2009-12-07T23:49:00.000-08:00

storyboard, panning shot

keyframe!

We had some trouble trying to post our final version of the animatic, but here are some layouts/storyboards and keyframes from it. Hope you like them!

A couple of shots cut from the animatic.

2009-12-03T12:22:00.000-08:00

We cut these but Kiki really liked them... so they are on the blog now

Turn_around

2009-11-18T22:52:00.000-08:00

It has some color too!

Age

2009-11-12T17:18:00.001-08:00

Our main chacter through the ages!

Below the margins

2009-11-12T17:14:00.000-08:00

Sometimes Brendan likes to do little margin drawings on the bottom of the layouts...when I get them to animate, it is like finding surprises!!

The middle one (the punching guys) is of our friend Ryan's thesis characters.

Thanks Aron!

2009-10-31T16:59:00.000-07:00

our good friend Aron made us this awesome drawing!! He is so cool!!

This is a work in progress of our animatic...

2009-10-31T15:09:00.000-07:00

The animatic_ has been updated and can be viewed in a more recent post.

...with temp audio from both M83, and Mum.

Hi Everyone!

2009-10-29T20:58:00.000-07:00

Welcome and thanks for checking out our blog! We wanted a place to post our stuff so people can see what we spend all our time slaving over! (like our parents!!) Hopefully our rough animatic will be up soon, and maybe also some concept art, pencil tests, and of course sleep deprived musings!! Check back soon!

-Brendan and Kiki