Spring 2024
The Flock
Head of Story,Background Artist, Visual Development, Compositing, Storyboarding, Character Design
Hometown: Minnetonka, Minnesota
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About: Ellie is a concept artist that also specialized in visual effects and adores illustration. Her passion for environmental design was one of the main factors in the creation of “The Shepherd’s Flock”. Her role as director was to lead the team to completion while maintaining the standards set for the artistic quality she envisioned for the film.
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Apart from working, Ellie enjoys playing volleyball and taking time to relax with a cup of tea and a cat on her lap.
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John
Background Artist
Hometown: Ada, Oklahoma
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About: During production, Lauren focused on organization, scheduling, and tracking the film’s progress. She was drawn to this film pitch because of the heartfelt story and the wonderful conceptual work inspired by Cartoon Saloon. Over the course of the film’s progress, Lauren discovered a newfound appreciation for background art that she did not have beforehand. She wishes to continue developing this interest!
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O'Toole
Story, Background Artist, Visual Development
Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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About: Caitlin saw Ellie’s vision early on during the ideation phase, and she resonated with the ambitious, stylized, art direction that aligned with her own artistic interests. As Art Lead, she focused on challenging herself with background development and visual development all throughout production, trying her best to support Ellie’s stylized vision.One day she hopes to be an Art Director on feature films.
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Flock Fact: Outside of school, Caitlin enjoys watercolor painting, photography, soccer, and traveling (favorite was Ireland).
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Animator, Story, Storyboarding
Hometown: New York City Metropolitan Area, NY
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About: Jessica is concentrating in 2D Animation with a minor in storyboarding. She chose to work on "The Shepherd's Flock" to work on something that had the opportunity for subtle character acting moments. This film provided her an opportunity to challenge her animation skills, doing things she's never attempted before. Figuring out how to animate the flashback sequence was a great challenge for her on the film. The scene was extremely stylized and needed to flow seamlessly, but it was something she enjoyed the most on the film. This gave her insight into her own artistic process when animating.
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Flock Fact: In her free time she loves to read books and attend concerts.
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See
Hometown: Fort Myers, Florida
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About: Hailey is a 2D Animation major. She chose this film for her senior project for the particular painterly style of the environments and appealing character designs (reminiscent if Cartoon Saloon). During her time on the film she contributed her skills through traditional character animation and developing ways to procedurally animated both grass and water in Adobe After Effects.
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Flock Fact: In her free time, Hailey enjoys painting, sipping espresso, lifting weights at the gym, and spending time with friends and family.
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Hometown: Lincolnshire, Illinois
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About: Isabella is a 2D animation major. She chose this film because she loved the environment concepts and story. On the film, she partook in visual development, exploring layout concepts and effect stylization. She also created rough animations for the film's shots and worked on compositing some of those shots to enhance them further.
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Flock Fact: In her free time, besides drawing for fun, Isabella loves watching horror movies and playing video games.
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Visual Development,Background Artist
Hometown: Jonestown, New York
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About: Ippy worked on backgrounds and prop design for the film. They were drawn to the film for its art direction and for the opportunity to draw more scenic imagery.
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Flock Fact: Aside from work and school, Ippy enjoys horror films and drawing with their trusty ballpoint pen.
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Anderson
Animator, Storyboarding, Character Design,
Visual Development,
Hometown:Greenbay, Wisconsin
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About: Anderson focused on animating and designing the characters for the film. He was drawn to the Film due to the beautiful and interesting art style along with the bittersweet story it came with. Throughout the film's progress, Anderson discovered a newfound appreciation for teamwork and pride in his work that he did not have beforehand.
Flock Fact:When he isn’t drawing for work, Anderson likes to draw for fun, play Stardew, and have a cup of something warm (coffee, tea, etc).
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Phillips
Background Artist, Character Designer,
Visual Development
Hometown: Junction City, Arkansas
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About: She was drawn to work on this film because of her personal stylistic compatibility with our director’s vision. She helped create concept art for the film, one of her biggest contributions being the creature design for the dragon. After graduation, she plans to move back home to south Arkansas to pursue work as a freelance artist.
Flock Fact: In her free time, she likes to sew, watch TV, create linocut art, and play the banjo!
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Lwin
Compositing, Animator
Hometown: Steamboat, Colorado
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About: Theda is a 2D animation major, who's primart role was compositing. As a lover of dragons and fantasy, this film was an obvious choice for her to work on. She was drawn to the beautiful wide world of Aymer and the Lamb. She was excited to animate characters and composite it's environments.There has been no other project that has pushed her skills so far, or that has challenged her in such exciting ways. She feels appreciative to have learned so much on this film's journey.
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Flock Fact: Theda looks forward to having more free time to do things like playing Zelda games and Minecraft, and watching animated TV shows!
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Professor Jonathan Standing
Adriana Garcia
"Firewatchers" Crew
Savannah College of Art & Design
Extra Help
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Backgrounds
Jillian Avery
Danny Conejo
Evelyn Dale
Dayna Dyar
Martina Tasende
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Animation
Miranda Bristow
Ashley Hayden
Molly “Snail” Howard
Madhava Kinnicutt
Tess McConville
Quinn Tisdale
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Voice Actors
Aymer | Zachary DeSanders
Lamb | Ashley Goldberg
Mother | Olivia Hardman
Son | Sidney Patterson
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Sound
Music Composer | Zachary Garcia
Sound Designers | Joshua Lee & Chris Lamas