Spotting Session for 4th Year with U of T Film Composition Class , Sheridan MASSIVE, Humber College Music

Wednesday January 30,  2 pm to 4 pm

Tomorrow is the day for our one-on-one meetings (Spotting Sessions)  between 4th Year animators and the various young composers.

We will first meet as usual at 2 PM in J102 for brief introductions, then move to the 4th Year Studio (A361) for one-on-one meetings
 until 4 pm.

Have your film ready to show in an easily playable form such as a video file. It should have an up-to-date picture, including the workflow shot, and a scratch track. Bring headphones!

If you are not participating in the composer-animator partnerships, please allow others to use the workstations in A361 during this time tomorrow afternoon.

The "Spotting Session" is an important meeting between film-maker and composer where the music for the film is discussed in detail, on a shot-by-shot basis.  Here is a quick summary of the main procedures and purposes of a Spotting Session:

1. View the Film
- Leica-Reel, Pose-Reel, or Rough-cut.
- include your temp music, sound fx, scratch voices
- decide where music is needed, what style, mood, instruments, accents, etc.
- make a sequential list of music cues (M1, M2, M3, etc.) with starting times!

2. Try Out New Musical Ideas
- play recordings with the picture! It's extremely important to hear the music while looking at your pciture.

3. Wait for the new Score
 - discuss delivery dates, file formats & other tech

PARTNERSHIPS
This is also the last chance to sort out any partnership issues. To help with this, the current list of partnerships is as follows:

University of Toronto Film Class 2018-19
Proposed Sheridan College Animation Collaborators
(List ordered by order of response - top of the list = first response)

NAMES in BOLD are composers, followed by list of animation students they are planning to work with. 


Michael Nunes
(Adam Hyatt, Kenny Ko, and Joyce Liu)

Xuan He
(Ada Lu -
Hannah Chung -
Echo Quan -
Kaslin Li -
Wendi Ren -
Diane Song - Zheng -
Michelle Guan

Paul Kawabe
(Turcin Soylu and Esther Cheung)

Ben Yeo
TBA

Erez Sussman
Wenny Lin, Karen Lee, Jaida Salmon

Samantha Sek
Jill Gwan

Colin McMahon
Ron Osypiuk
Vanessa Fardoe
Laura Hall
Tara Bulizuik
Gunesh Brisebois
Madalen Tojicic
Andrew Komer

Kevin Gallagher
Renee Liang and Julia Taylor

Carter Brodkorb
TBA

Sami Anguaya
confirmed working with: Clara Cheung, and Zach Gray
Potentially working with:  Turcin Soylu, Rebecca Simpson, and or Andrew Komer

Sergei Kofman
Danielle Ferri
Esther Cheung

Benjamin Gabbay
Rebecca Simpson (rsimpson.school@gmail.com)
Elliot Maxted (maxted@sheridancollege.ca

Arthur Li
Esther Cheung
Karen Lee - already signed up with a different composer
Christina de Luc
Anna

Ben Zhang
Wendi
Kenny
YiWei Zhou

Aryo Nazaradeh
Gunesh Brisebois
Patrick Gall
Alexis Varvagiannis

Ricardo Ferro
Liam Mann
Tara Bulizuik
Jamie Tann
Laura Hall
Eudora Shum
Hojung An
Alex Varvagiannis

Max Filazek
Danielle (?)
Tara Bulizuik
Turcin:
Anna:
Julia:
Laura Hall

Tommy Lee
Anna Ryzhkova

Jahred Warkentin
Echo Quan
Kenny Ko and
Tara Bulizuik

Alex Fridman
Kenny Ko, Tara (i think), and Christina Natalie (not confirmed yet)

Keshav Sharma-Jaitly
Jaida Salmon
Zora Wang.


OTHERS (not U of T)
Madeline Currie (Humber College)
Aimee Ryckman
Mac Redden
Jincheng Liu
Esther Cheung

Andrew Menino ( sound effects.)
Esther Cheung
Yutong Zhang
Abroo Khan


SHERIDAN MASSIVE
Jason Stamatyades 
Danielle Bittner

Ravish Kamath
Olivia Amoah

THIS WEEK'S LECTURE & WORKSHOP - The Creative Development Process for Animated TV, and Advanced Toonboom Harmony

We have a couple of terrific events for you at this week's lecture and workshop. First is the next instalment in our lecture series on The Business of Animation with a visit from development executive Brandon Lane of Corus Kids Entertainment, explaining for us the  process of taking an idea from original concept to a weekly on-air animated TV series (a process that he's been through many times, as you can see from his bio, below.)  J102, 2-4 PM

Following Brandon's talk, Sheridan's own Sarah Wallace will give an interactive workshop on Advanced Techniques in Toonboom Harmony.  Bring your projects and questions about Harmony to Sarah for analysis and discussion.  A361, 4-6 PM

LECTURE: 2-4 PM J102

The Creative Development Process for Animated TV Series - Brandon Lane,  Corus Entertainment

3-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee Brandon Lane is an award-winning director, showrunner, screenwriter and currently Production Executive for Canadian Kids TV networks YTV, TELETOON and Treehouse. Over the past decade, Brandon has overseen the production of over 360 hours of content airing in Canada and over 190 countries worldwide, collaborating with partners like Disney, Netflix, HBO, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Sesame Workshop and Sony Pictures Animation. He currently showruns and directs the Youth Media Alliance Award of Excellence-nominated preschool series ‘Miss Persona’, airing on Treehouse. He is also showrunner, director and co-creator of Space Dragon & Kim, a web series for Shaftesbury’s Sorta TV YouTube channel and co-showrunner on ‘D.N. Ace’ for Nelvana.

Prior to working for Corus, he developed, creative produced and wrote for YTV’s ‘Numb Chucks’, as well as co-created and creative produced YTV’s ‘Cache Craze’. He has also written for Amazon & TVO’s Emmy-nominated ‘Dino Dana’ and CBC Kids’ ‘What’s Your News?’.  He currently oversees production for Corus Kids on 'Hotel Transylvania', ‘Esme & Roy’, ‘Cupcake & Dino: General Services’ (which New York Times named one of the best new shows of 2018) and many other kids’ series. Brandon recently wrote and directed an award-winning musical film called ‘Princess Sparkly Butt & The Hot Dog Kid’, adapted from an award-winning play he also wrote and directed. Brandon also teaches at Centennial College’s Children’s Media post-grad program (of which he is an alumni).

WORKSHOP: 4-6 PM A361

Toon Boom Advanced Techniques -  Sarah Wallace, Sheridan College

This Week's Lecture & Workshop

THE LECTURE - Wednesday 2 PM, J102 

The Lifestyle of the Freelance Animator 

and 

Distribution and Exhibition for Short Animated Films

Guest Speakers, James Caswell and Chris Walsh, Sheridan College

The Lecture is the first in our Business of Animation topic, with James Caswell and Chris Walsh offering complementary perspectives on life in animation.

Jim will present The Lifestyle of the Freelance Animator,  covering questions endemic to young people starting out in the animation business such as, "How much should I charge?" , "How do I manage my taxes?"  and also touching on issues of intellectual property.

Chris gives an alternative viewpoint, Get your films out into the world,  which opens up the discussion to issues of artistry vs. industry and ways to distribute your creative work.

THE WORKSHOP - Wednesday 4 PM, 4th Year Studio 

Workflow: Making Your Software Work Together

The workshop will be led by David Huyn,  Technical Director at Nelvana.

David brings a wealth of technical experience in Toonboom Harmony, Maya and other production software. If you're hitting a dead-end on a software problem, come to this workshop to pick David's brain for a possible solution. This workshop is especially valuable with the coming deadline for Milestone 2- Scene Workflow Test, and the requirement for Maya and Toonboom projects to be fully rigged and ready for animation.

David says:   "I've been in the industry for almost 9 years.  I started working for a small company working on a mobile app for about a year before starting at Nelvana as a general Technical Director (TD).  I've also taught at Max The Mutt for a few years as the final forth year instructor for 3D animation in Maya.  

My role at Nelvana was always changing because being a generalist meant I was flexible and I filled roles such as a modelling, rigging, minor animation, compositing, FX R&D and team lead, front end pipeline tool development.  These roles covered both 3D Maya productions as well as 2D Harmony productions where I've been the supervising TD.  

With the experiences I've come to have within the studio, I've also been requested to serve as a recruiter at school's industry nights. "

Wednesday Lecture & Workshop - January 9, 2018

YOUNG COMPOSERS FROM SHERIDAN AND HUMBER COLLEGE

We start off the new semester with a busy Lecture on Wednesday ( 2 PM, J102). It begins with a visit from the young composers of Sheridan's MASSIVE (Music Applied to Stage, Screen and Interactive Visual Environments) program, joining forces with the Humber College Jazz program.  They want to provide original music for you films, so they will spend a little time introducing themselves and their musical background.

ADVANCED COLOUR DESIGN FOR 4th YEAR FILMS - MIKE HITCHCOX 

This week's lecture and workshop also feature our own Michael Hitchcox on the topic of Advanced Colour Design. Mike's portion of the lecture begins at 2:45;  the workshop follows in A361 (the 4th Year Studio)  at 4 pm. Mike requests that you send him some background artwork for his lecture demonstration. You can reach him at michael.hitchcox@sheridancollege.ca