The Railway Steam Gallop just finished playing at the Hiroshima International Animation Film Festival in Japan this week. I had the absolute pleasure of working on this film with Kaj Pindal (Sheridan professor, NFB veteran, and a very funny man) as principle animator under his direction and tutelage, shortly after graduating. It was an incredible experience learning and working alongside him, and tremendously fun as well - Kaj always has a good story or pun hiding in that smile of his.
I don't think I ever properly promoted the work-in-progress or the final piece, so below are a few making-of pictures (courtesy of Owen Colborne, photography technologist who came in to snap a few shots):
Editing stages & director approval
A final shot
Kaj fiddling with an engine. On the back wall are the storyboards, highlighted shots having been completed.
Hard at work
Below is a little snippet of some of the folks behind-the-scenes in the early stages of prep work; painting bystanders, setting up shots, testing equipment (via Chris Walsh, producer).
KajPindalTrainFilm_Day1 from
Chris Walsh on
Vimeo.
And the final film:
The Railway Steam Gallop from
Carla Veldman on
Vimeo.
2 comments:
Great job, Carla! We showed this one at the Kaj Pindal retrospective at TAAFI too
Thanks, Amir! I remember you mentioning it played at TAAFI - couldn't make it to the screening, but I imagine it was a pretty good time as well. :)
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