our graduation film, the coloring and the animation in the darker parts were made in tvpaint.
Natalie & Sharon
Howl
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Paul Fierlinger
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This is an exceptionally well designed and animated film, not only because it is a student film, but I believe it could belly up to any bar filled with more seasoned animators. Except for the weak ending; I didn't get it. Well, I did but it didn't satisfy me because it wasn't as well thought out, compared to the excellent editing tricks seen in the core of the film, so I didn't get why the director didn't spend more time agonizing over a way to come up with a surprise.
I particularly liked the way all 2D graphics were well carried out without ever stooping down to such stupidities as making the slow panorama across the cityscape a multicam job, so thank you for that. The graphic design was I thought splendid in its understanding of the powers of simple lines and neat camera views without becoming show-offy as is too common in student films. I didn't like the mother's dangerous titties however -- that got in the way and I found it an unnecessary embellishment -- but granted, an improvement from the horny cow udder bags ding-donging throughout most student films.
Could someone tell us some more about how Howl was made? I'm particularly interested in how much input or oversight or even direct hands on participation came from faculty members, and what was the major software used; how many students participated in drawing and how long did it take. There were some wonderful observations from real life -- the small, and to me very consequential details such as the way the bowl moved about when the child-dog licked it to the bottom and just the dog like animation of the baby in general.
I didn't care for the music much at all. It was melodramatic and pushy; it didn't match the culture of the drawings and film editing at all and that is a pity.
Sandra and I were in Israel in late Spring and were told about this school and now I regret not visiting it (instead of the 12 stations of the cross, for instance). We were invited by the DOCAVIV festival and I was a jurist on the student film competition and would like to make a note here that I've juried several student festivals before but have never seen anything that came close to the level of Israeli student films (BTW there were no animation films; it was a festival of documentary films and Sandra and I were invited there to give a couple of lectures and workshops on the making of animated documentaries because they are considering making animated documentaries a new category next year; someone here might be interested in that).
EDIT: I want to take back my critique of the ending. I completely missed that the mother crawled into the dog house. Either I glanced away or perhaps the film could have spent a couple more seconds on her crawling in. It's otherwise a very nice ending indeed.
I particularly liked the way all 2D graphics were well carried out without ever stooping down to such stupidities as making the slow panorama across the cityscape a multicam job, so thank you for that. The graphic design was I thought splendid in its understanding of the powers of simple lines and neat camera views without becoming show-offy as is too common in student films. I didn't like the mother's dangerous titties however -- that got in the way and I found it an unnecessary embellishment -- but granted, an improvement from the horny cow udder bags ding-donging throughout most student films.
Could someone tell us some more about how Howl was made? I'm particularly interested in how much input or oversight or even direct hands on participation came from faculty members, and what was the major software used; how many students participated in drawing and how long did it take. There were some wonderful observations from real life -- the small, and to me very consequential details such as the way the bowl moved about when the child-dog licked it to the bottom and just the dog like animation of the baby in general.
I didn't care for the music much at all. It was melodramatic and pushy; it didn't match the culture of the drawings and film editing at all and that is a pity.
Sandra and I were in Israel in late Spring and were told about this school and now I regret not visiting it (instead of the 12 stations of the cross, for instance). We were invited by the DOCAVIV festival and I was a jurist on the student film competition and would like to make a note here that I've juried several student festivals before but have never seen anything that came close to the level of Israeli student films (BTW there were no animation films; it was a festival of documentary films and Sandra and I were invited there to give a couple of lectures and workshops on the making of animated documentaries because they are considering making animated documentaries a new category next year; someone here might be interested in that).
EDIT: I want to take back my critique of the ending. I completely missed that the mother crawled into the dog house. Either I glanced away or perhaps the film could have spent a couple more seconds on her crawling in. It's otherwise a very nice ending indeed.
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Re: Howl
Dear Natalie,Nata wrote:our graduation film, the coloring and the animation in the darker parts were made in tvpaint.
Natalie & Sharon
nice work, welcome in the TVPaint forum !
I'm glad to see some TVPaint work from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
We hope to see some other in the future.
Fabrice Debarge
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peterbunzl
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Beautiful animation and design work, and a well made film. I really liked the pace and feel of it.