MILESTONE EXAMPLES - FALL SEMESTER (pre-2023)

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Milestone 1 - Pitch Package & Reference Art

1. Ex.1 - "Nighttime is cold and lonely..."
2. Ex.2 - "Pit Stop"
3. Ex.3 - "Release" 

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Milestone 2 - Treatment & Rough Storyboards

1. 1. Ex.1 - "Nighttime is cold and lonely..."
   2. Ex.2 Treatment - "Release" 
   3. Ex.2 Rough Storyboard - "Release"

 

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Milestone 3 - Script & Finished Storyboards

1. 1. "The Casebook of Nips and Porkington"
      1. Script
      2. Storyboard
   2. "Nighttime is cold and lonely like a motel alongside a desolate road..."
      1. Script
   3. "Fugu Master"
      1. Script
      2. Storyboards

 

Milestone 4 - LEICA REEL

These examples have been chosen to illustrate various successful approaches to temp Sound Track design:

1. "Get Hot" - mostly music-driven
2. "The Ballad of Amelia von Earl" - Narration-driven 
3.  scene from "Toy Story" - dialogue driven
4. "One Way" - sound effects and music driven
5. "Nighttime is cold and lonely..." - blend of narration, dialogue, music and sound effects
6. "Say Cheese!"- music and slight dialogue
7.  "Mayham"- blend of music, dialogue and sound effects

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Milestone 5 -Critique Participation 

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Milestone 6 - Screening Participation

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Milestone 7a (2D Projects) - Performance Test & Action Analysis

1. Performance Test and Action Analysis in separate shots -  

- Performance Test  
        and 
Action Analysis

2. Performance Test and Action Analysis in separate shots -  

- Performance Test 
        and 
Action Analysis

2.  Performance Test & Action Analysis in a single shot

Milestone 7b (3D and StopMo Projects) - Design Package

1. Nighttime is Cold and Lonely - Design Package

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Milestone 8 - Production Plan (all)

1. Guard Duty, production plan (Excel worksheet)
2. Dirt - Shot List; Production Estimate; Production Schedule
3. Get Hot - Shot List with Priorities  

4. Butter Back Off - Shot List with Priorities

3D Projects must also submit rigged characters and modelled sets. 
Stop Motion projects must submit documentation showing construction of characters, props and sets. 

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Milestone 9  (2D Projects -  Animatic, aka " Pose Reel",   aka "Layout Reel" )

please  note that although backgrounds are coloured in some of these examples, it is not required for this milestone.

 

1. Guard Duty

2. Release 

3. Foxed

4. Blankie

5  Car Washed

6. Wash Day

7. Hairball

 

Milestone 9 for 3D Projects - (Animatic with Completed Models, aka "Pop-Though Reel")

note that  although models are rigged in some of these examples, it is not required for this  milestone. 

 

1. Nighttime is Cold and Lonely...

2. Say Cheese

3 Cursed 

4. Home

Milestone 9 for Stop Motion Projects - Puppets, Sets and Props (all at least 30% Completed)

An animatic reel is not required for this Milestone; the only requirement is that the modelling be 30% completed. However, some students photograph their models, props & sets and assemble the photos into a demonstration reel so that their work can be shown to their mentor and at the class screening.

 

example TBA