Welcome to a special mid-week edition of Cartoon Brew’s Student Animation Festival. Today, we’re excited to present the online debut of Pest by Nooree Kim of Oakville, Canada’s Sheridan College. This is either genius—or the stuff of nightmares. Inspired and subversive, Pest is our kind of cartoon fun. Outrageous character, silly pranks, beautifully staged and fully realized. Oh yeah, and leaving you wanting more: the true mark of a successful project. Kim can draw, has a point of view and is funny.
Click HERE to read an interview with the filmmaker Nooree Kim.
The Cartoon Brew Student Animation Festival is made possible by the generosity of our presenting sponsor JibJab.
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Today, as part of Cartoon Brew’s Student Animation Festival, we’re delighted to present Pest by Nooree Kim of Toronto’s Sheridan College. This is either genius—or the stuff of nightmares. Inspired and subversive, Pest is our kind of cartoon fun. Outrageous character, silly pranks, beautifully staged and fully realized. Oh yeah, and leaving you wanting more: the true mark of a successful project. Kim can draw, has a point of view and is funny.
Continue reading for comments from the filmmaker Nooree Kim:
THE IDEA
My process for developing this film might be a bit backwards compared to other people. I consider myself more of a design person then an animator or story artist. I wanted to focus my attention on designing strong characters first and then developing a story around them. After I had more or less locked down my designs, I tried putting him in different situations and I imagined how he and the people around him would react to them. Eventually I realized that with such an impish character, it was only right that he should think that he is in charge of most of the situations that he gets into, up until the point where he gets what he deserves.
TOOLBOX
I used Photoshop to design all the backgrounds, Flash for animation, After Effects for EFX/compositing scenes and Premiere to composite everything.
LESSONS LEARNED
While working on my film, I realised that I had to reassess my time management skills. I kept lingering on particular scenes that were giving me trouble and completely lost track of time. After hitting a couple of these speed bumps, I realised that I couldn’t afford to dwell on these scenes so I decided to keep moving on unless I noticed any glaring problems. This decision allowed me to finish on schedule and also have time to go back and tweak scenes if needed.
INSPIRATIONS
Different art bloggers such as Anthony Holden, Julien Le Rolland, Vincent Giard and Willie Real have widened my perspective on the types of talent in the industry. Their work is really inspiring and is also a constant motivation for me to continue on in my path. My fellow animators/friends are also a big part of what inspires me. During the process of making this film, they were a constant positive presence and we kept each other motivated with 2am Mario Kart races and cookie baking.
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We’re delighted to announce the selections for Cartoon Brew’s third annual Student Animation Festival. This year we topped over 200 submissions, which made programming this year’s festival a challenging task. We chose filmmakers whose work displayed confidence and maturity while being unafraid to experiment with new ideas, techniques and styles.
(A brief note: for the first time, we have multiple selections from two schools: Rhode Island School of Design and Sheridan. In particular, there are three films from Sheridan. We received a record two-dozen entries from Sheridan this year, and we appreciated the diverse range of voices coming out of there, as well as the consistently high technical proficiency of the school’s students.)
Each of the ten filmmakers below will receive $300. Further, we’re introducing a new twist this year. After all the films have debuted, we will conduct a poll where viewers can vote for their favorite film. The winner of the audience choice award will receive an additional $500.
Cartoon Brew’s Student Animation Festival is made possible by JibJab, our major sponsor for this year’s festival. JibJab has consistently demonstrated generous support for young and emerging talent, and we are proud to recognize them as the sponsor of our festival.
Once again, a hearty congratulations to this year’s selections in our Student Animation Festival. Mark your calendars: the first film will debut on Cartoon Brew on Monday, July 2.
The Ballad of Poisonberry Pete
Directed by Uri Lotan, Adam Campbell, Elizabeth McMahill
School: Ringling College of Art and Design
Country: USA (Florida)
Ballpit
Directed by Kyle Mowat
School: Sheridan College
Country: Canada
Gum
Directed by Noam Sussman
School: Sheridan College
Country: Canada
Money Bunny Blues
Directed by Ellen Coons
School: College for Creative Studies
Country: USA (Michigan)
Otzi
Directed by Evan Red Borja
School: School of Visual Arts
Country: USA (New York)
Peace One Day
Directed by Angie Phillips and Phoebe Halstead
School: Kingston University
Country: UK
Pest
Directed by Nooree Kim
School: Sheridan College
Country: Canada
Troubleshooting
Directed by Eric Ko
School: Rhode Isla
