Hi everyone!
Just wanted to let you know I won't be updating this blog much anymore, as I mostly post on tumblr now. If you'd like to keep following me, please check out my tumblr at niralianimation.tumblr.com.
Thank you so much everyone for all your support - I truly appreciate it!! :D
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Sunday, September 14, 2014
DC Shorts
Hi all!
Little Big Hero will be screening at DC Shorts over the next week! If you're interested in checking it out and are in the area, the screening times are:
September 14th @ 3pm.
September 18th @ 9pm.
September 19th @ 9pm.
I'd love to hear what you think if you have a chance to go! Here's the website also:
http://festival.dcshorts.com/little-big-hero/
Also! I've been setting up a tumblr account recently. It still needs some updates but if you'd like to have a look, the link is below. I'll probably be focusing more on posting to the tumblr page, at least for the time being. So for more up-to-date posts, please visit:
niralianimation.tumblr.com
Thanks! :D
Little Big Hero will be screening at DC Shorts over the next week! If you're interested in checking it out and are in the area, the screening times are:
September 14th @ 3pm.
September 18th @ 9pm.
September 19th @ 9pm.
I'd love to hear what you think if you have a chance to go! Here's the website also:
http://festival.dcshorts.com/little-big-hero/
Also! I've been setting up a tumblr account recently. It still needs some updates but if you'd like to have a look, the link is below. I'll probably be focusing more on posting to the tumblr page, at least for the time being. So for more up-to-date posts, please visit:
niralianimation.tumblr.com
Thanks! :D
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Dreamworks Animation Designing Dreams Studio Internship
Wow, I haven't updated this in ages! So sorry for the long silence - I'll be sure to be more active from now on! Things have been really busy the last few months with some freelance projects I'm working on. And I found out some exciting news - I was accepted into DreamWorks Animation's Designing Dreams Studio internship program here in Australia! As part of the opening of the DreamWorks Animation Exhibition, Dreamworks and ACMI were holding a mentoring program with the Dreamworks studios in LA, called the 'Designing Dreams Studio'. They chose 5 applicants throughout Australia, and I was extremely happy to be one of them!
As part of the program, we were able to meet and learn from the Dreamworks artists while they were here in Melbourne for the opening of the exhibition - Kendal Cronkhite (Production Designer on the Madagascar films and many others), Jason Schleifer (Head of Animation on films such as Mr. Peabody and Sherman), Christophe Lautrette (Production Designer for The Croods and many more), and Doug Cooper (Visual Effects Supervisor on many films as well as being responsible for creating the Dragon Flight simulator at the exhibition). They were all so wonderful and friendly, and it was such a fantastic experience to meet them and learn from them! We were also fortunate enough to be able to meet Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dreamworks co-founder and CEO) and Bill Damaschke (Dreamworks Chief Creative Officer) briefly as well, which was also amazing! The whole week was wonderful. From here on, the program will continue via online video conferences with the LA studio, and runs until September. I'll be doing a piece of writing for ACMI soon, sharing my experiences with the program in more detail, so I'll post a more comprehensive account of my memories of the week here also once I have written it!
In the meantime, I remember I've meaning meaning to post this for a while but have never gotten around to it! This is a short film I created for the organisation Australia For Dolphins last year. They liked my student film "Whale Song", and asked me if I could create a similar film for them to help raise awareness of the dolphin hunts in Taiji. I was really happy to do something to help such a worthy cause. I also had some amazingly talented people working with me on this film - Jessica Harris, (who did some of the animation and the land backgrounds), Sonya Belousova (who composed the music), and Eric Schwartz (who created the sound design).
Anyway, here it is! Hope you enjoy!
As part of the program, we were able to meet and learn from the Dreamworks artists while they were here in Melbourne for the opening of the exhibition - Kendal Cronkhite (Production Designer on the Madagascar films and many others), Jason Schleifer (Head of Animation on films such as Mr. Peabody and Sherman), Christophe Lautrette (Production Designer for The Croods and many more), and Doug Cooper (Visual Effects Supervisor on many films as well as being responsible for creating the Dragon Flight simulator at the exhibition). They were all so wonderful and friendly, and it was such a fantastic experience to meet them and learn from them! We were also fortunate enough to be able to meet Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dreamworks co-founder and CEO) and Bill Damaschke (Dreamworks Chief Creative Officer) briefly as well, which was also amazing! The whole week was wonderful. From here on, the program will continue via online video conferences with the LA studio, and runs until September. I'll be doing a piece of writing for ACMI soon, sharing my experiences with the program in more detail, so I'll post a more comprehensive account of my memories of the week here also once I have written it!
In the meantime, I remember I've meaning meaning to post this for a while but have never gotten around to it! This is a short film I created for the organisation Australia For Dolphins last year. They liked my student film "Whale Song", and asked me if I could create a similar film for them to help raise awareness of the dolphin hunts in Taiji. I was really happy to do something to help such a worthy cause. I also had some amazingly talented people working with me on this film - Jessica Harris, (who did some of the animation and the land backgrounds), Sonya Belousova (who composed the music), and Eric Schwartz (who created the sound design).
Anyway, here it is! Hope you enjoy!
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Merry (very belated) Christmas!
This is a piece of art I made for a friend who I was studying with at Gobelins. We're doing an art swap at the moment. She sent me a lovely piece of art first, so then it was my turn. I sent it to her a while ago but am only just posting it up now, so it's a little late seeing as Christmas was three weeks ago! But anyway, hope everyone had a great holiday! :)
Thursday, December 5, 2013
CTNx 2013 and AFD
Hi all! Sorry again for the long silence. I recently got back from Los Angeles where I attended the CTN Animation Expo in Burbank. It's been my third year attending and once again it was an amazing experience. I met so many wonderful and inspiring industry professionals, who were so kind to give their time to review my portfolio and their feedback was also really helpful!
My favourite workshop was probably Claire Keane's. I am a huge fan of her work, and was also able to speak to her for a little while after the workshop, which was amazing. I also really enjoyed meeting Tom and Tony Bancroft again. My sister and I met them last year at CTN also. Tony Bancroft wasn't really looking at reels or portfolios, but he was kind enough to look at and give me feedback on mine. He gave me some really great advice so I am very appreciative of that! I also got a lot of great advice and reviews from animators from Blue Sky, Nickelodeon and Walt Disney, and Dan Hansen who is the Head of Character Animation at CalArts. I was also chosen for an animation portfolio review with Bobby Beck from Pixar! All in all it was a fantastic experience and if anyone is thinking about going in 2014, I would highly recommend it!
Anyway, now that I'm back in Melbourne, I'm going to be doing some more work for Australia for Dolphins. Australia For Dolphins (AFD) is an amazing non-profit organisation aiming to stop the slaughter of dolphins in Taiji. Earlier this year I designed their mascot character, Doolin, and created a short animated film promoting awareness for the cause. The website is almost up and running, so I'll be posting a link to the website and the short film soon! In the meantime, they're running a competition for their Facebook page. They're looking for ideas for a cover design, and I will be illustrating the winning idea. Here's a link if anyone is interested in entering! I'd love to hear all your ideas!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=550537195029524&set=a.546203665462877.1073741828.457989087617669&type=1
Anyway, I thought I'd post some of the illustrations I've already done for AFD. These will be used in the website as some small 'panels' for the links. The first will be for Doolin's Story (the animated short), and the second is for Doolin's Introduction (a small 15 second video I animated of Doolin introducing himself and AFD).
My favourite workshop was probably Claire Keane's. I am a huge fan of her work, and was also able to speak to her for a little while after the workshop, which was amazing. I also really enjoyed meeting Tom and Tony Bancroft again. My sister and I met them last year at CTN also. Tony Bancroft wasn't really looking at reels or portfolios, but he was kind enough to look at and give me feedback on mine. He gave me some really great advice so I am very appreciative of that! I also got a lot of great advice and reviews from animators from Blue Sky, Nickelodeon and Walt Disney, and Dan Hansen who is the Head of Character Animation at CalArts. I was also chosen for an animation portfolio review with Bobby Beck from Pixar! All in all it was a fantastic experience and if anyone is thinking about going in 2014, I would highly recommend it!
Anyway, now that I'm back in Melbourne, I'm going to be doing some more work for Australia for Dolphins. Australia For Dolphins (AFD) is an amazing non-profit organisation aiming to stop the slaughter of dolphins in Taiji. Earlier this year I designed their mascot character, Doolin, and created a short animated film promoting awareness for the cause. The website is almost up and running, so I'll be posting a link to the website and the short film soon! In the meantime, they're running a competition for their Facebook page. They're looking for ideas for a cover design, and I will be illustrating the winning idea. Here's a link if anyone is interested in entering! I'd love to hear all your ideas!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=550537195029524&set=a.546203665462877.1073741828.457989087617669&type=1
Anyway, I thought I'd post some of the illustrations I've already done for AFD. These will be used in the website as some small 'panels' for the links. The first will be for Doolin's Story (the animated short), and the second is for Doolin's Introduction (a small 15 second video I animated of Doolin introducing himself and AFD).
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Updates after a long absence!
Hey guys!
Wow, it's been a long time since my last post (almost 3 months)! So sorry it's been so long! Things have been reaallly busy with our second year films! But we just had our online edit last Friday, so now I'm more free. During production period though, I would basically just wake up, animate, eat lunch, animate, eat dinner, animate, sleep. And eat copious amounts of chocolate in between.
In other news... I just found out a couple of weeks ago that Whale Song won the award for 'Best Animation' at the AOF Festival! It was also named runner up for 'Best Children's Film', and I was runner up for 'Best Young Filmmaker'. So that was very exciting news! And I also recently found out that Whale Song was accepted into the Chicago International Children's Film Festival!
Anyway, seeing as all the animation is finally done for my film, Little Big Hero, I thought I'd post up some stills. The film isn't totally complete yet though - we're now in sound production. I'm working with an amazing composer and sound designer - Sonya Belousova and Eric Schwartz - so I can't wait to hear what they come up with for the music and sound design! But for now, here's some stills from the film:
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Little Big Hero Pencil Test
Today I thought I'd post one of my recent pencil tests from the current film I'm working on, Little Big Hero. I won't go into the details of the story right now (it's 2am and I really should sleep...), but basically in this shot Scout (the little girl) is forcing Fettuccini (the donkey) to wear a tutu. Hope you enjoy it! :) And I always love feedback so if you noticed anything in the animation that doesn't look right or needs improvement, please let me know!
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