'Transparent Movement' screening in Chicago

My experimental film, 'Transparent Movement' will be screened at the Landmark's Century Centre Cinema, in Chicago (Chicago's first all stadium-seating cinema dedicated to independent and foreign language film), for the Indie Boots Film Festival.

It will be Chicago premiere.

Illustrations

Illustration

YELLOWSHED promo card

YELLOWSHED promo card

'Where There Here' screening in Toronto

Sand animation 'Where There Here' will be screened at Toronto Kids Film Festival in April.
It's a Canadian premiere. How exciting...

2012 update

It has been over an year, since I had my last posting.
Personally, I've been focusing on the film, 'Away', (which is only a few months away from completion), while teaching at both Calarts and Cal State Univ. Long Beach.
Once the film is complete, I plan on posting development art and behind-the-scene stories here.
So please stay tuned for the summer!

'Dexter' web episodes pitch spec work

Back in 2010, we were asked to pitch for the animated web series of a big hit Showtime drama 'Dexter'.
We didn't get the project, but it was a nice change to work on something more dark and serious, compare to our usual light-hearted designs.
I worked with two talented artists, Steve Eat & Alex Rico, who did such amazing jobs!
It was disappointing that we didn't get to showcase these wonderful artwork to the public...
So here they are!

Art director: Soyeon Kim
Designer/Layout Artist/Illustrator: Steve Eat & Alex Rico

Design/Layout/Illustration by Steve Eat

Design/Layout/Illustration by Alex Rico

'Away' is on the way

I have been busy working on my new film, 'Away'.
It's 9 minute animated short about a baby elephant.
Hopefully all the production goes as planned and I get to release this baby elephant into the wilderness soon. (Expected release in Summer 2012)

Soyeon's films at the Poppy Jasper Film Festival

'Father and Sister' and 'Transparent Movement' have been selected for the Poppy Jasper Film Festival (Nov. 12-14, Morgan Hill, California)

I am very honored to announce that 'Father and Sister' was chosen as the Top 10 films of the Festival, by Morgan Hill Times.  Here is the excerpt from the article:

"Father and Sister: Soyeon Kim's creative media film tells an O'Henry story using very basic but beautifully drawn animation. This 5-minute stained-glass window gem considers how a series of coincidences inside a church leads two religious people to find romance. "

To read the full article, click Morgan Hill Times.

Soyeon Kim interview with psd tuts+

Here is the part 2 of the Yellowshed interview with Michelle Krasniak for psd tuts+
with a title, 'Soyeon Kim: Organic Designs, Handcrafted Motion'
Part 1 is with 'Todd Hemker: Art in Motion'

It was such an honor to have this wonderful opportunity.

YELLOWSHED's commercials 'Noodle' & 'Family' selected for the Animation Festivals in Europe

Two commercials for MCL Restaurant & Bakery have been selected at the Animation Festivals in Europe.  More news to come!

Screenings:

Holland Animation Festival (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Bradford Animation Festival (Bradford, United Kingdom)

Cinanima (Esphino, Portugal)

AniFest (Teplice, Czech Republic)

Seoul Int’l Animation Festival (Seoul, Korea)

Citrus Cel Animation Festival (Jacksonville, FL, US)

Krok Animation Festival (Moscow, Russia / Kiev, Ukraine)

Anima Mundi (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Anim’est (Bucharest, Romania)

Cartoons on the Bay (Roma, Italy) -Nominated for the ‘Pulcinella Awards’

For more production information, visit YELLOWSHED blog

'Family'

'Noodle'

Additional spec design for the commercial pitch

Art Direction by Soyeon Kim

Illustration by Soyeon Kim & Steve Eat

Style frames for the commercial pitch (Spec Work)

Art Direction by Soyeon Kim

Illustration by Soyeon Kim & Steve Eat

Soyeon's films are available for sale at IndieFlix!

Soyeon's 4 independent films are available for sale at IndieFlix!

Here is the link: http://www.indieflix.com/search/?q=soyeon+kim

'Father and Sister' Won an Award!

Father and Sister won 'Best Animation Award' from Jersey Shore Film Festival that was held in New Jersey from July 8th to 18th

'Father and Sister' at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Programmers' picks:

This clever, funny, and endearing animated short is engaging from start to finish. It goes to show that the convent isn't entirely "dead."

'Where There Here' at Comic-Con 2010

A sand animation, 'Where There Here' at Comic-Con 2010!

'Transparent Movement' won the Best Experimental Film Award at the Connecticut Film Festival

'Father and Sister' at New Hope Film Festival

Here is the promo article about the 'Father and Sister'
from New Hope Film Festival.

'Father and Sister': Characters

Here are some sample design sketches & parts for the characters.

Nun character Turn-Around sheet

Nun puppet chart 1

 Nun puppet chart 2

  Nun clothes parts

Character parts & replacements

'Father and Sister': Background 2-Church Entry Door

Here are samples of the layout sketch, background artwork, and replacements for the door of the Church Entry Door shot along with the final composite still image from the movie.

Layout sketch

Background artwork

Door replacement parts

Final composite shot

'Father and Sister': Background 1-Inside the Church

  Layout sketch

Background design

 Final composite shot

a short animated film, 'Father and Sister'

Back in 1999, I started to work on a short film with cut-out animation technique using actual paper puppets and parts. I had done more experimental films before, so my idea for this film was... something that I hadn't tried before: a comic cartoon. It was a fun process, yet operating the 16mm Oxberry camera for the first time, while moving hundreds of little paper pieces under the camera... was not that easy. I made some 16mm raw footage, and called it 'good enough for the experience'. Then I packed all these paper parts inside of a shoe box.

Years later, I found a dusty old shoe box at the corner of the closet. Inside, there were abandoned old puppets and artwork that never got to be shown. So I decided to give them another chance to see the world. I tried to keep the original idea based on 10 year old storyboards and plans (which ended up making things more difficult..., because in most of cases... I would have done things differently now.) I did change the the film process to digital, though: I scanned all the original paper parts, cleaned them up in Photoshop, then re-composited them in After Effects.

It was my side project for the last several years, whenever I had spare time outside of studio projects and teaching : sometimes a few weeks a year, and if I got lucky...a few more weeks.

Since the fall of 1999... carrying 1999's idea, design, storyboards through... its 2010 completion date... many many many days have passed by.

And finally, the film starts to be screened to the public through the film festival circuit.

Thanks to my crew, Amanda Nelson & Aaron Dabelow, my former students, who assisted me with the animation, and Spencer Dorn, who made the wonderful music for the film. And special thanks to my partner Todd Hemker, who help me with animation, compositing and editing as well as the support throughout this long... process.

Link to imdb

Link to the List of screenings

Soyeon's design samples for the Plant sequence: 'Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs'-End Titles

Design samples for the Plant sequence

The full growing plants were divided into 9 segments: 

top, middle, bottom & left, center, right

Here are 3 segments

Here are the screen captures from the movie below

Soyeon's design sample for the Incidental characters for the 'Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs'-End Titles

Here are some character designs & color/texture treatments for the End Title sequence for the 'Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs'