The Nightshift

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The Nightshift

• by
• David Kury
• Kevin Singleton
• 2004

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About the Work

• 2000 SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater
• Created for Animation Workshop class at UCLA
• Length about 435
• Genre Short Film comprised of film footage and
  3D digital animation
• Audience Professor, peers, SIGGRAPH, UCLA
  Festival 2000

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About the Artist

• David Kury
• Student UCLA School of Film and TV, Animation
  Workshop
• Animation Workshop
• Festival 2004

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Visual Aspects - Color

• Characters
• High Saturation
• Bright/Vibrant
• Contrast time of day and backgrounds
• Green dragon
• Yellow bug
• Red kid

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Visual Aspects Color

• Backgrounds
• Mute
• Dimly lit for nighttime scene
• One light source
• Changing tint of film

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Visual Aspects Composition

• Cameras
• Simple
• Mostly static (3 pans)
• Still Photos
• Depth of Field
• Only in bug closeups, not in dragon closeups

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Visual Aspects - Imagery

• Pictures figurines of ghosts, dragons, flies,
  etc.
• Used to fill in scene parody the characters
• Shell pattern on bug
• Eyes on the milk

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Technique

• 3D computer animated characters composited onto
  film
• Composite lines
• Mismatched lighting

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Shot Sequencing

• Simple
• Mostly cuts, but a few fades
• Action sequence (argument/fight) shortens the
  length of a shot
• Intro pan intro to characters conflict
  resolution exit pan

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Editing

• Film tint
• Warm and cool tints
• Dragon sometimes blends in with background
• Sound
• Voices, limited use of sound effects

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How does this apply to my work?

• Similarities
• Interaction between 2 characters (which happen to
  be a dragon and a bug)
• Focus on character
• Simple backgrounds
• Differences
• Simplistic rigs
• Simplistic motion

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Critique

• Strengths
• Simplicity
• Use of colors and images to signify and
  strengthen
• Story (before Monsters, Inc. somewhat)
• Weaknesses
• Disparities in film tint
• Blur switch
• Rendering/Compositing artifacts
• Lighting differences

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Summary

• Keep it Simple
• Colors
• Background
• Character Setup
• Animation
• Story