REBECCA LUOMORNINGMorning is a scene that focuses on two people in bed together, in an embrace of the tender and gentle moments of the morning with a loved one. But where is this morning headed? This short is about context and expectations and how that can make people extremely weirded out.

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EARLY DEVELOPMENT

ANIMATION & COMPOSITING METHODS

the characters and backgrounds. It was animated with TVPaint. Backgrounds were drawn directly in TVPaint. Lines were drawn directly on top of the animatic with color and no clean up. With the help of Trevor Lynas, color and shadow were then added. Some backgrounds were shrunken and resized to decrease quality and create a blurry camera-like effect.

for the zoom and pan to work without compromising image quality. TVPaint had trouble exporting the larger shots in video form (as it kept skipping frames) so it had to be put into a PNG sequence and then made into an MP4 through Adobe After Effects. The shots were all compiled and edited in Adobe Premiere.

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EARLY DEVELOPMENT

ANIMATION & COMPOSITING METHODS

the characters and backgrounds. It was animated with TVPaint. Backgrounds were drawn directly in TVPaint. Lines were drawn directly on top of the animatic with color and no clean up. With the help of Trevor Lynas, color and shadow were then added. Some backgrounds were shrunken and resized to decrease quality and create a blurry camera-like effect.

for the zoom and pan to work without compromising image quality. TVPaint had trouble exporting the larger shots in video form (as it kept skipping frames) so it had to be put into a PNG sequence and then made into an MP4 through Adobe After Effects. The shots were all compiled and edited in Adobe Premiere.

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SOUND & VOICE

Sound was added and edited after the shots were composited (both done in Adobe Premiere.) The birds sounds were

various options. When it came down to about 3 tracks, each was tested with the animation until it felt right, and there were also tests between music and with no music, just birds tweeting. Elevator Ride by David Renda turned out to be a

The green character was voiced by Rebecca Luo herself and due to the COVID Quarantine, the red one was voiced

REBECCA LUOBIOGRAPHYRebecca Luo creates 2D animation, concept art, character design,storyboards, and paintings.

She has led and supported various 2D projects while at MICA. Rebecca’s creative passion centers around fun, expressive, and featuring cutesy characters in dark comedy. She likes to exaggerate a character’s frustrations,anxieties, insecurities, or truths about themselves they don’t like to admit,encapsulated in a quirky style.

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