The Wanna-Be Oddie Gallery Show

Thanks to God, The Wanna-Be Oddie has its own gallery show!!

The show featuring the original artworks of Oddie and my new show, Oddy's Oddsome Universe first 15 seconds teaser.

The show located at 117 Post St. San Francisco CA94108

From April 13 to May 13.

If you are in SF, feel free to visit!

For more information:  http://gofurthersf.com/

See you there =)

Chapter III: The Coincident

It was happened to be a little coincident on my 2nd idea, The Pianist who Failed to Play His Piano that back in 80 years ago, a similar idea had been created in black & white Mickey cartoons.

Here's my initial sketches/ thumbnails of my 2nd idea:

 

It's about a pianist who didn't know he's actually playing a piano monster.

However after my 2nd presentation which we've decided to pick the 1st idea, 

I found this cartoon during my research,

Mickey was playing a self-play piano! I have never seen this before I developed my 2nd idea but a similar idea was far well created in year 1929, it's 80 YEARS AGO.

I'm so glad I did not pick this as my thesis project idea.

Chapter II: The First Ideas

In preproduction class, we need to figure out what we want to do for our thesis project. We'll propose the ideas and class instructor will guide/ supervise us until we get a solid, complete idea or story.

Each of us was required to present 3 different ideas at the beginning of the class and we'll pick the most interesting/ potential idea among the 3.

So the very first 3 ideas of mine:

i. The PRE 'Wanna Be Oddie'

The main character was trying to buy a coke but his coin has rolled underneath the vending machine accidentally.
He thought the big guy was tried to help him but the big guy took the coin and bought himself a drink instead.
As the result, the main character was trying to get back his coin/ drink back. 


 ii. A Pianist who Failed to Play his Piano

 iii. A Mad Scientist and His Monkey Assistant

As you can see, this was the very first rough sketches that I did just to present my basic ideas.
I had more sketches and ideas before I have my PRE Wanna Be Oddie in the coke and vending machine story but I just couldn't find those sketches.

After the first presentation, I was required to continue in develop these 3 ideas but after the 2nd presentation in the following week, we decided to pick the 1st idea as my thesis project.

AND THIS WAS TOTALLY WHAT I WANT!
 

Midpoint Review

THANKS TO GOD

I PASSED MY MIDPOINT!!
which means, I got the approval from school that I can start working on this project now.

Thanks Tom, Derek, Robert as my panels of my Midpoint Review.
Suggestions & comments are truly appreciated & considered!

& guys, (whoever is reading this) Don't do double sided board presentation! They don't like it..

Thanks friends who have been helping me for prepare everything.

& SO SORRY that I haven't been really contact well enough with my family..!


Alright, more drawings, design & preproduction stuff that I've been working on are going to update here!

Prelude

A specifically blog for my thesis project, The Wanna Be Oddie.

I'm Ben, Academy of Art University MFA Animation student.
Thesis progress & dailies will constantly updates here.

Be Hold!

For those who don't know what thesis is, it's basically my final project for my MFA study in AAU. I've to finish it in order to graduate..

Thesis project, here I come~~!!!