Making of Sayonara

Making of Sayonara

An overview of some of the techniques I used to make the short film, Sayonara.

Check out the full version of Sayonara here,

http://vimeo.com/22589529

An experimental stereoscopic short based on Sayonara,

http://vimeo.com/22845717

**Credits**

Director - Eric Bates

http://www.eric-bates.com

Puppeteer - Rulo Lopez

http://rulo.cl/

Stereoscopic Consultant - Masayoshi Arimoto

Sky Paintings - Yuki Murabayashi

Overlay Textures - Judith Umaña

**Special Thanks**

Ayumi Bates

Yasu Suzuka

Hirokazu Sato

Kazuo Hirose

Masahiro Kashima

Kyoto University of Art and Design

**References**

facial rigging “pooby”-style

by Paul “pooby” Smith

http://www.si-community.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=159

Illustrative Rendering in Team Fortress 2

by Jason Mitchell, Moby Francke and Dhabih Eng

http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2007/NPAR07_IllustrativeRenderingInTeamFortress2.pdf

Awesome Spine Setup

by Mat Berglund

http://faithofthefallen.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/awesome-spine-setup/

Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right

by Jason Osipa

ISBN-10: 9780470609903

Ponyo

by Hayao Miyazaki

Studio Ghibli 2010

“Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.” - Miyazaki