Chalk is a student animated short film created in Savannah College of Art and Design's 395 class: Collaborative Pipeline. The short was designed to call back to the city of Savannah, and was aired as a bumper for the 2020 Savannah Film Festival.
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A young girl is drawing with chalk on the sidewalk. Suddenly, her chalk drawings come to life! She follows them on a magical adventure through Savannah's Forsyth Park.
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Chalk was animated in Maya 2020 and Toon Boom Harmony 20.
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My main responsibility on Chalk was 3D animation and the 2D animated duck.
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Software: Autodesk Maya, Toon Boom Harmony
Year: 2020
I learned a lot working with the characters for this project! It was my first time having to animate a character responding to a character that wasn't already in the scene. I had to collaborate a lot with the 2D artists to make sure their interactions flowed smoothly!
Getting to animate the little 2D ducky was a blast. The character was small, and I had a fun time trying to get the movements to read well in such a small space. The jump was particularly fun, looking up reference videos of ducklings jumping is a nice perk to the job.
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Images and videos courtesy of and owned by Savannah College of Art and Design.