University Projects
Falmouth’s Animation course, being intensely practical and industry-focused, allows students to pitch their ideas and potentially produce a short film. In February 2021 I had previously pitched an idea, ’The House My Family Built’, but faced rejection due to a rushed and underdeveloped presentation. Determined to not make the same mistakes and knowing another pitching opportunity was upcoming in early October, I began prepping a new idea in June called ‘Silk and Venom’. Directly below you can find both pitches, though the audio for the second has been lost to time.
Out of 26 pitches given, my pitch was one of 10 to get greenlit for production. Unfortunately, our year group was small, with a far higher demand for film producers than supply, even with them often taking on two or more productions. I took on the dual role as both a director and producer (and animator, and character artist, and 3D artist…). Despite the stress and pressure of this, pre-production was a success.
A small team and I put together an animatic with sound and vertical slice, improved character, environment, and story beats as well as creating vital design sheets over a period of 12 weeks. I learned a lot and took great pride in presenting the team’s progress, however most of the 12 weeks I was on crunch mode, working almost all evenings and weekends to keep the production on track and meeting milestones. We stayed greenlit through to Christmas, and despite my efforts to increase the size and better the structure of the team through advertising drives to lower years and other courses nothing worked out. In the New Year I made the decision to postpone the film. Below you can see our progress:
Collaboration
In 2022, I also collaborated on a few other greenlit projects, which taught me a lot about other production pipelines and how to work efficiently within a creative team.
Below you can see a compilation of my work for other student films.