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Countin' on Sheep
Students
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Countin' on Sheep
Countin’ on Sheep: Case Study
The film included here augments the written case study in Chapter 10 of our text. This is an in-progress reel (or Leica Reel) of Aubry Mintz’s film Countin’ On Sheep. This reel will show you all of the steps of animation production, including storyboards, rough animation, clean animation and final color. The reel is continuously updated and scenes are replaced as they progress down the production line. As you will see, the characters and backgrounds evolve at each step. For example, in some of the earlier storyboards, the main character, “Zee,” is wearing pajamas, while in the final versions he is in a nightshirt and has different hair. Scenes are animated out of order so the reel will be a mixed bag of black and white drawings and colored scenes. If you are working on a short animated film, hopefully this can help you understand how your Leica reel will develop. Enjoy!
Credits:
Writer/Director/Producer
Aubry Mintz
Co-Producer/Production Manager
Dori Littell-Herrick
Art Director
Doug Post
Story
Aubry Mintz, Lennie Graves
Score
Charley Sandage (songwriter)
and Harmony: Dave Smith, Mary Gillihan, Robert Gillihan
Joe Jewell (sound engineer/producer)
Editor
Aubry Mintz
Production Design
Visual Development Artists
Robin Richesson, Jarvis Taylor, Kristen Houser, Melissa Devine ,Ryan Richards, Jennie Cotterill, Erik Caines, Cuyler Smith, Doug Post, Alina Chau, Cassandra Siemon , Ivaylo Anguelov
Layout
Lennie Graves, George Fleming, Alex Rico, Steve Eat, Chris Wagner, Kevin White
Background Painting
Jarvis Taylor, Kristen Houser
Character Design
Lennie Graves, Aubry Mintz, Dori Littell-Herrick, George Fleming, Doug Post
Prop Design
Lennie Graves, Erik Caines, Cuyler Smith, Kevin White
Animation
Aubry Mintz, George Fleming
Supervising Key Assistant Animator
Dori Littell-Herrick
Key Assistant Animation
George Fleming
Assistant Animation
Jesse McClurg, Mona Kozlowski, Sarah Keokanac, Dave Coyne, Karen Amit, Alicia Young, Aaron Rademaker, Whitney Brown, Ilene Kim, Kristen Allen, Vincent Lee, Rachel Greenberg, Mike Morris, Aileen Ung and Angela Walker
Titles
Lennie Graves, Dallas Worthy , Paul Yula
Effects
Paul Yula, Frank Lima
Ink and Paint
Dallas Worthy, Jacob Hanover, Cindy Cheng, George Fleming, Karen Aquino, Jamie Ludovise, Jennifer But, Jesse McClurg, Ben Lin, Robbie Eich, Stephanie Tsui, Antonio Bozanic, Preston Do, Chelsea Bryan, Lynsay White, Preston Do, Monica Hernandez, Ana Hernandez, Aubry Mintz, Lynn Barzola, Raul Oregel, Aaron Rademaker, Karen Amit, Kathleen Derby, Alicia Young
CG Development
Rigger
Eric Pierce
Environment
Asako Miyamori
Models
Joshua Mayle, Roja Huchez, Daniel Lindsay
Lawyer
Paul Husband
Stop Motion Maquettes
Dallas Worthy
Special Thanks
Chris Roman, Eric Goldberg, Susan Goldberg, Lennie Graves, Ric Heintzman, Sue Kroyer, Bruce Kuei, Sarah LaPenna, Arno Kroner, Karen Sullivan, Ellen Besen, Paul Husband, Dallas Mintz, Ron and Ricki Mintz, Tevye and Kohel Mintz