Welcome to Week 8 | Full storyreel due Sunday Dec 5th

Your job for this week is to
finalize your storyreel for the exhibition!

Make sure you've looked at your feedback from last week.

This is the last week to revise your storyreel.

Focus on making changes that you think will improve your story

Exercise 1: Editing (1-2 hours)

What can you do to CLARIFY & improve the PACING of your story?

can you cut story beats that aren't important?
can you add story beats anywhere to avoid confusion?
are there moments in your storyreel which play too fast or too slow?

Update your storyreel accordingly.

Exercise 2: Color (optional)

Think of any moments in your story which would benefit from some color (to amplify emotions or draw the viewers eye to something important in the frame).

(Adding color is not required)

Exercise 3: Motion (optional)

Think of any moments in your story which would benefit from motion lines & lines of action. Update those frames accordingly.

If you finished editing your storyreel you can polish it further using

these two (optional) exercises.

Ready to submit to the final exhibition?

There are two final steps:

1) Every member of your team must complete the questionnaire below.

2) Every member of your team must judge 4 entries in the Week 8 gallery.

What's next?

After you have completed the questionnaire, submit your work and judge 4 entries in Week 8 gallery, you are done with your Week 8 assignments.

Stay tuned!

We will prepare the final exhibition website, including celebration videos and awards for public viewing, going live on Friday, Dec 10th.

We have a special treat this week.

Pixar gave us permission to show you these two new short films. If you watch them before Monday's livestream you can ask the Directors questions about their films directly!

Ciao Alberto (Director: McKenna Harris)

password: C1aoC1ao

Nona (Director: Louis Gonzales)

password: PixarSp@rkSh0rts

LOUIS GONZALES started in animation in 1996 at Warner Brothers Feature Animation in their Training program where he studied both Layout and Animation. After graduating from the WBFA internship program he worked on Quest for Camelot, Iron Giant, and Osmosis Jones.
In 2000 Louis moved to Pixar to work starting as a CG Layout artist on Monsters inc. & quickly made his way to the Story department on the Incredibles. His credits at Pixar include Monsters University, Finding Nemo, Finding Dory, Ratatouille, Cars, Cars 3, Brave, The Incredibles 1 & 2 and other shorts & films.
He currently works as a Director at Pixar Animation Studios where he has directed 2 short films. “Nona” (2020) & “Know Your Rights.” (2021)

Our Next Livestream Guests!

5pm PST/8pm EST Nov 29th on Week 8 page

McKenna Harris is currently a story supervisor on an upcoming film at Pixar Animation Studios. Previously, she was a story lead on Pixar's Luca, and directed its spin-off short Ciao Alberto. Her animation career began in character design on Cartoon Network's We Bare Bears; after Bears, she focused on pursuing storyboarding, which lead to interning in the story department at Sony Pictures Animation, and later joining Walt Disney Feature Animation as a story apprentice. Her feature credits include Wreck-It-Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks the Internet, Frozen 2, and Raya and The Last Dragon. In her spare time she loves dreaming up ideas for personal projects, drinking coffee, and binging on Netflix.