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3. Sweet Dreams
1 year ago
The 10-minute animated film "Sweet Dreams" by Kirsten Lepore
Written, Directed, and Animated by Kirsten Lepore
Music by Kirsten, Chelsea, and Megan Lepore
Written, Directed, and Animated by Kirsten Lepore
Music by Kirsten, Chelsea, and Megan Lepore
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Kirsten LeporeWriter, director, animator
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What school/degree was this thesis for?
:-)
There are a million incredible things about this....the sets and characters...but the sound design...wow.
I have my midpoint pretty soon where I have to present my thesis for my MFA and I don't even know what the hell I'm going to do, I'm really nervous...and I have a year and a half to do it.
Boo.
Great work congratulations :-) what did you end up shooting this with?
What's your MFA degree going to be in and from what school? Is it animation/film related? I totally feel ya...I had no idea what I was going to do for my thesis for a long time. It's so difficult to come up with an idea out of nowhere when you have no assignment/prompt. I'm sure it'd be great tho!
I shot this with a Nikon D80 and istopmotion
I'm currently at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco getting an MFA in Motion Pictures + Television with an emphasis in Cinematography...so ultimately I want to become a Director of Photography...however on the side I make a lot of construction paper animations for fun:
vimeo.com/886058
vimeo.com/836658
vimeo.com/869408
are a few but there are more floating around my vimeo.
I want to try to get into experimental animation more just for fun. I used to build lots of pretty intricate dioramas when I was younger. I think your thesis turned out amazingly and is such an amazing fruit of your labor.
I'm taking a production design course next semester to hopefully feed my desire to create, I'll probably take a couple fine arts classes too we'll see.
I shoot with a Nikon D50 :-)
Keep up the great work, I love your portfolio site/other projects you do, you are so unbelievably talented.
Just watched the whole thing and it just got better! I love the lemon house and the dough nut covering the kids' eyes!
I see you have a very talented family:)
Thanks Kirsten
When and where we can see the whole movie?
1. How you do the water effect, I mean that once is blue and on te beash is once transparent white.
2. How you do moving curtains.
3. There is a moment when characters build a tower with carrots. Every worker is holding the element of the construction and give to the another worker, how you do it?
Is that was a shool project? or something bigger independent?
regards
1. I used blue and clear plastic bags that I cut up
2. In keeping with the "real food" motif, the curtains are fruit rollups
3. There are wires going through the arms/hands of the characters and into the carrots so they would stay.
Cupcake!... he has no eyes.
It's dark. It's morning time. A boat!
Uh oh its raining...
a apple we have one at our home!
uh oh he has no hair...
(when the go into their home) daddy what are they doing? (my response) Uh they love each other?
another boat.
(pulling out candy canes and planting seeds) HA HA!
uh oh big carrot!
yeah he saved them...
THE END
he left for the credits.
I'm curious on how did you do the water. It looked great
The water is just blue and clear plastic grocery bags.
I became a member of vimeo just to comment this video. Jaja. Love the sound of the bricks, makes me think about this other sound: blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm
Bye
Glad you liked the sound effects... it took a long time, but I made them all myself. And I loooove that "muto" video. I've watched it many times because it's sooo amazing (and the sound is fantastic!)
Did u take film and stop motion at your school? this and your 'Guess Who' video have some very good edits. I'm at art school for special effects and i've been thinking about taking a film class to improve my story telling abilities.
I was actually an experimental animation major. "Sweet Dreams" was my thesis and "Guess who" was a summer project. You should take any film/animation class you can! They're so fun! What art school do you go to?
I'm jealous of your creativity!!!
Very good sound design, though I wasn't a big fan of the music.
The drawing in the sand shot was definately needed.
Good job on bringing a faceless cupcake to life.
Congratulations !!
vegetables! brilliant!!
So true that vegetables are better friends than sweets haha. Really nice, I appreciate that and all the work it took and besides the cute look and scenery, it was also very enjoyable.
Yes, I looove vegetables :)
i was watching it by myself and laughing my ass off.
brilliant.
simple as that really:]
Very nice work!
Can't wait to see more -
I really admire people like you who take the time to do something like this. Must have been a fun school to go to :) very creative stuff...
I would like to know if i can put this on my website, with making a ling to your website. Would you be okay for that ?
i hear you made this using istopmotion and a nikon d80. im considering a nikon d80 and was wondering how it interfaces with istopmotion. can you manually control focus within istopmotion? and did you figure out how to get live preview to work in istop motion?
any feedback would be sooo appreciated!
you can email me if you like at linde.brewer@gmail.com
I think I did all the focusing on the actual camera manually...I'm not sure if you can control focus in istopmotion. Also, the d80 unfortunately doesn't have live view (i soo wish it did!) And as far as I know, istopmotion doesn't support live view yet for digital SLR cameras. I actually had to return my copy of the software because I found that out the hard way while trying to use live view with a canon 40D....didn't work at all :(
You can get a live preview with istopmotion if you use a videocamera though.
Email me if you have any more questions:
kirsten@kirstenlepore.com
Now you should be in every TV show: "The woman which ate her film studio!".... ;-))
Great work!
cakespy.com/2008/12/sweet-spot-dessert-links.html
The storyline, the animation, and the sound design are all very good. Not to mention the materials used ;)
I once thought of doing an animtion with veggies, but I didn't finish it.
Also I must add that for a 10 minute story it held my attention the whole time. Its hard after passing 3 minutes and even longer than 5 or 6.
Great work, and keep it up!
(you can use a double tripod mount and use a DV cam next to your DSLR for onion skinning. The D90 now changes that I guess.)
it's like reading a book but you provided the pictures exactly how i'd imagine it haha
it's amazing how you got the point across with no talking or text
i hope to see more
but it went by so quick. i want more!! se-quel! se-quel! se-quel!
The soundscore and the animation works perfect, i was captivated into your story, I Loved it, this will be another video I will send to my friends. Good Luck on all your future and present works.
I am a big fan of imagination and this video is just incredibly done to perfection.