How I made my 1st year Calarts film! 🎬

Cheers to finishing my film + first year at uni haha ,,, hope this was insightful in any way! 🥂😳 ✨
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⭐️ ABOUT THIS VIDEO
In this video I will be elaborating on my process behind my first year animated student film at Calarts, "RUSH HOUR"! I'll be talking about my own pipeline, from pre-production (idea, story, visdev), production (animation), to post production (compositing, vfx, sound and music)!!

0:00 Hello hello! ◡̈
1:00 The Animation Pipeline
1:22 Pre-production: Getting an Idea
2:03 Pre-production: Idea to Story
3:42 Pre-production: Visual Development
5:17 Production: Schedule + Planning
5:53 Production: Animation
8:09 Post-production: Compositing + VFX
9:12 Post-production: Sound + Music ♪
11:02 Putting it all together!!
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🔖 MY CARRD + SNS LINKS
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🎹 MUSIC
♪Sunshine - MONKEYBGM
♪ Morning Rain (Prod. by Lukrembo)
♪ Teatime - 음악팀 (TeamMusicCreative)
♪ A fine romance - MONKEYBGM
♪ Dream With Tea(Prod. by Lukrembo)
♪ 'a flower named you' (prod. saku)
♪foreverland - comfybeats (lilypichu)
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🌸 FAQS
Name? | Veda (pronounced vay-dah). My nickname is Saku!
Age + nationality? | Oct 04' liner (do the math!), born and raised in Hong Kong :)
Languages? | Mother tongue is cantonese, most comfortable in english, fluent in mandarin and intermediate in Japanese (N3 JLPT)!!
What app do you use? | Procreate for drawing and animating (Ipad pro 12.9 inch 3rd gen), final cut pro x for editing (macbook pro 13 inch)
What procreate brushes do you use? | I mostly use 6B pencil + narinder pencil for graphics and lineart, and I use flat brush and nikko rull for painting
What camera do you use? | A mix between my iphone 11 and the DJI pocket
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🏷 HASHTAGS + KEYWORDS
animation process / animation behind the scenes / calarts / drawing / animated film / calarts film / character animation / art student / animation student / vlog

[ZenitsuKunn]

Woah, she made it to Calarts?! I'm so proud of you Saku!! I remember watching you back then and being so inspired. And now, youre inspiring me to try my shot at Calarts! So proud of you 💓💓

[aizakitty]

I’ve always loved to see the behind the scenes of animations. Keep up the good work Saku 🥳

[hardcoremoominfan]

I love how you incorporated texture into the animation to make up for the lack of color, it reminds me a lot of a flip note which kinda plays into the film’s theme as well (i used to mess around on flip note so much as a little kid !! ahhh i miss the DS days)

[zuzu.soltys]

I'm soo proud of youuuu❤!!! I also tried doing a 90 second animation(it was supposed to be 60 seconds long, but I wanted to add some details and don't make it feel rushed) and I get to know the process of animation-the struggle of trying to have realistic movements, beleavable expressions, camera angles and so on. Even tho it was really challenging I really enjoyed the process and it gave me ideas for another animations. It's crazy how challenging yourself and creating something along the way can make you really happy.

[cookieee]

I love love love seeing the process behind your art! Makes me remember that inspiration can be in the most mundane things..
Once againnn ty for being an inspiration for so many people and I hope u can rest and take breaks during summer!

[springhana.]

i loved teh film so much!!im glad you uploaded the process i just love seeing the process behind animations!❤

[loanicastillo]

Your channel is like a safe place. You remember me of a college classmate in engineering school but I find you a lot more amicable and open.

[picat]

YAYY more saku videoss its so cool to see the whole process and you doing all of this ahh 😭✨ i remember watching your graduation video last year omg and probably alot of people say this lol but its really inspiring seeing you come this far :DDD

[lavioca]

as someone who has dreamed of going to calarts since i was very young (even though it may not be possible) these videos are so inspiring 🥲🥲

[kenziemck]

animation is so interesting but seems so hard!! your film was really cool and you are honestly such an inspiration to me

[sgrim_artz]

as someone who is graduating this year from animation, this is really wholesome

[vose_art]

i love seeing progress behind films in general but its crazy to have seen your journey to get to this film as well.

[masoodtahir]

This is super insping, thank you for sharing and putting together a making of the animation piece. Keep kickin ass out here! Easy sub!

[Moonleii]

thanks for the info, it was really fun to see you work on your calarts film in the blogs and i loved how it turned out! really inspires me to work on my animation projects too :D

[jonremimuziq]

This is such an insightful breakdown !! Wow. And I just watched your film Rush Hour, it is AMAZING!!! Love the story arch, the animation is fantastic. As a New Yorker (now living in LA) that gap abyss between the platform and the trains are actually scary lol! But I love how you made it all just a blissful dream. Really dope film altogether.

Are you still attending school at CalArts? What would you say your overall experience has been like there?

[ariadnaltos]

This was a really cool video! It was pretty interesting to see how you made your decisions for the film. I hope you have a great summer break :)

[laura]

Thanks for sharing your process! I had an idea what visual development was but I never incorporated it into any of my work. I usually just go straight into creating😂But seeing how you incorporated manga screentones and the final look which was soo nicee, I'm encouraged to find my own inspirations and incorporate them into my work!
And oh my goshhh Dittooo!!! I was dancing along with you!! I love that song and choreography too much🤣

[qianyue.c]

you are so inspiring! thank u for sharing your process and making this info accessible to others <3 it's genuinely so helpful and the film is beautiful

[zelda]

it’s been so long!! I’m glad you put out another video ❤️❤️❤️

[jiemin]

omg you uploaded!! watching your videos always makes my day :))