Countin’ on Sheep: Case Study

 

The film included here augments the written case study in Chapter 10 of our text. This is an in-progress reel (or Leica Reel) of Aubry Mintz’s film Countin’ On Sheep. This reel will show you all of the steps of animation production, including storyboards, rough animation, clean animation and final color. The reel is continuously updated and scenes are replaced as they progress down the production line. As you will see, the characters and backgrounds evolve at each step. For example, in some of the earlier storyboards, the main character, “Zee,” is wearing pajamas, while in the final versions he is in a nightshirt and has different hair.  Scenes are animated out of order so the reel will be a mixed bag of black and white drawings and colored scenes. If you are working on a short animated film, hopefully this can help you understand how your Leica reel will develop. Enjoy!

Credits:

Writer/Director/Producer

Aubry Mintz

Co-Producer/Production Manager

Dori Littell-Herrick

Art Director

Doug Post

Story

Aubry Mintz, Lennie Graves

Score

Charley Sandage (songwriter)

and Harmony: Dave Smith, Mary Gillihan, Robert Gillihan

Joe Jewell (sound engineer/producer)

Editor

Aubry Mintz

Production Design

Visual Development Artists

Robin Richesson, Jarvis Taylor, Kristen Houser, Melissa Devine ,Ryan Richards, Jennie Cotterill, Erik Caines, Cuyler Smith, Doug Post, Alina Chau, Cassandra Siemon , Ivaylo Anguelov

Layout

Lennie Graves, George Fleming, Alex Rico, Steve Eat, Chris Wagner, Kevin White

Background Painting

Jarvis Taylor, Kristen Houser

Character Design

Lennie Graves, Aubry Mintz, Dori Littell-Herrick, George Fleming, Doug Post

Prop Design

Lennie Graves, Erik Caines, Cuyler Smith, Kevin White

Animation

Aubry Mintz, George Fleming

Supervising Key Assistant Animator

Dori Littell-Herrick

Key Assistant Animation

George Fleming

Assistant Animation

Jesse McClurg, Mona Kozlowski, Sarah Keokanac, Dave Coyne, Karen Amit, Alicia Young, Aaron Rademaker, Whitney Brown, Ilene Kim, Kristen Allen, Vincent Lee, Rachel Greenberg, Mike Morris, Aileen Ung and Angela Walker

Titles

Lennie Graves, Dallas Worthy , Paul Yula

Effects

Paul Yula, Frank Lima

Ink and Paint

Dallas Worthy, Jacob Hanover, Cindy Cheng, George Fleming, Karen Aquino, Jamie Ludovise, Jennifer But, Jesse McClurg, Ben Lin, Robbie Eich, Stephanie Tsui, Antonio Bozanic, Preston Do, Chelsea Bryan, Lynsay White, Preston Do, Monica Hernandez, Ana Hernandez, Aubry Mintz, Lynn Barzola, Raul Oregel, Aaron Rademaker, Karen Amit, Kathleen Derby, Alicia Young

CG Development

Rigger

Eric Pierce

Environment

Asako Miyamori

Models

Joshua Mayle, Roja Huchez, Daniel Lindsay

Lawyer

Paul Husband

Stop Motion Maquettes

Dallas Worthy

Special Thanks

Chris Roman, Eric Goldberg, Susan Goldberg, Lennie Graves, Ric Heintzman, Sue Kroyer, Bruce Kuei, Sarah LaPenna, Arno Kroner, Karen Sullivan, Ellen Besen, Paul Husband, Dallas Mintz, Ron and Ricki Mintz, Tevye and Kohel Mintz