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.

American Greetings Interactive

Here is a design sample I made for the American Greetings: I-pad App.

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

Father and Sister Won Another Award!

Father and Sister won another award: Golden Reel Award at the Nevada Film Festival!

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: list of screenings

Award
Best Animation: Jersey Shore Film Festival
Honorable mention: The 58th Columbus Int'l Film + Video Festival 
Golden Reel Award: Nevada Film Festival

2010

Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, MI, US) Feb. 19-28

Beverly Hills Short Film Festival (Beverly Hills, US) Mar. 18-21

Tiburon Int’l Film Festival (Tiburon, CA, US) Mar. 18-26

Edgemar Short Film Festival (Santa Monica, CA, US) Mar. 26-28

FirstGlance Film Fest Hollywood Online Contest (LA, CA, US) Apr. 7-May 19

Tallahassee Film Festival (Tallahassee, FL, US) Apr. 8-11

- Finalist in 'Best Animation' Award

Citrus Cel Animation Festival (Jacksonville, FL, US) Apr. 9-11

Humboldt Film Festival (Arcata, CA, US) Apr. 18-24

Memphis Int'l Film Fest (Memphis, TN, US) Apr. 22-25

Palm Beach Int'l Film Festival (Palm Beach, FL, US) Apr. 22-26

East Carolina Film Festival (Greenville, NC, US) Apr. 24-30

LA Asian Pacific Film Festival (LA, CA, US) Apr. 29-May 8

South Bend Film Festival (South Bend, IN, US) Apr. 30-May 1

The Connecticut Film Festival (Danbury, CT, US) May 4-9

Talking Pictures Festival (Evanston, IL, US) May 7-9

Tupelo Film Festival (Tupelo, MS, US) May 13-15

Twin Rivers Media Festival (Asheville, NC, US) May 28-30

Artfest Film Festival (Harrisburg, PA, US) May 28-31

Ohio Independent Film Festival (Cleveland, OH, US) Jun. 1-4

New Hope Film Festival (New Hope, PA, US) Jun. 21-27

Nickel Independent Film Festival (St. John's, Canada) Jun. 22-26

Jersey Shore Film Festival (Deal, NJ, US) Jun. 27-Jul. 18

Long Island Int'l Film Expo (Long Island, NY, US) Jul. 9-18

Gallery of Animation (Long Beach, CA, US) Jul. 15

Asian American Int'l Film Festival (NY, NY, US) Jul 15-24

Okanagan Int'l Film Festival (Kelowna, BC, Canada) Jul. 21-25

Woods Hole Film Festival (Woods Hole, MA, US) Jul. 31-Aug 7

Sacramento Film and Music Festival (Sacramento, CA, US) Aug. 6-15

Washougal Int'l Film Festival (Washougal, WA, US) Aug. 11-15

Landlocked Film Festival (Iowa City, IA, US) Aug. 26-29

Central Florida Film Festival (Orlando, FL, US) Sep. 3-6 
The Rome Int'l Film Festival (Rome, GA, US) Sep. 10-11
Twini Mini Film Festival (Twinsburg, OH, US) Sep. 14
Maelstrom Int'l Fantastic Film Festival (Seattle, WA, US) Sep. 17-19
Commffest Community Film Festival (Toronto, Canada) Sep. 22-27
Great Lakes Int'l Film Festival (Erie, PA, US) Sep. 22-29
SoCal Independent Film Festival (Huntington Beach, CA, US) Sep. 26-Oct. 3
FirstGlance Film Fest Philadelphia Online Contest (Philadelphia, PA, US) Sep.-Oct.
San Diego Film Festival (San Diego, CA, US) Sep. 29- Oct. 3
Indie Ani-Fest (Seoul, Korea) Sep. 30-Oct. 5
GIAA Festival of Short Films & Videos (Manhattan, NY, US) Oct. 1-3
Kansas Int'l Film Festival (Overland Park, KS, US) Oct. 1-7
Eugene Int'l Film Festival (Eugene, OR, US) Oct. 7-10
Tacoma Film Festival (Tacoma, WA, US) Oct. 7-14
DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival (Washington D.C, US) Oct. 7-16
New Orleans Film Festival (New Orleans, LA, US) Oct. 14-21
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival (Santa Fe, NM, US) Oct. 19-24
Hollywood Film Festival (Beverly Hills, CA, US) Oct. 22-25
Tindirindis International Animation Festival (Vilnius, Lithuania) Oct. 25-31
Directors Circle Festival of Shorts (Erie, PA, US) Nov. 8-12
-Nominated for the 'Best Animation' Award
Poppy Jasper Film Festival (Morgan Hill, CA, US) Nov. 12-14
Columbus Int'l Film + Video Festival (Columbus, OH, US) Nov. 16-21
Istanbul Animation Festival (Istanbul, Turkey) Dec. 16-19
2011
Animacall (Thessaloniki, Greece) Mar. 30-May 1
Animabasauri 7 Animabasque (Bilbao, Spain) Apr. 1-7
San Francisco International Women's Film Festival Online (San Francisco, CA, US) Apr. 6-10
Herning Int'l Short Film Festival (Herning, Denmark) May 13
Seoul Int'l Cartoon and Animation Festival (Seoul, Korea) Jul. 20-24
Hyart Film Festival (Lovell, WY, US) Aug. 11-13
Mumia-Underground World Animation Festival (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) Sep. 7-30
2012
The Columbus International Film and Video Festival "Greatest Hits" (Columbus, Ohio, US) Feb. 1
Festival Cine B (Chile) Nov. 23 - 30

'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

'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'

'Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs: End Titles'

YELLOWSHED (Soyeon & Todd) co-directed the end titles for the Sony's animated feature film, 'Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.

Clients: Sony Pictures
Production Studio: DUCK Studios

Executive Producer: Mark Medernach              Producer: Daniel Ridgers
Directors: YELLOWSHED (Todd Hemker & Soyeon Kim)

Designers: Justin K.Thompson, Paul Rudish, Chris Mitchell, Soyeon Kim, Michael Kurinsky
Lead Animators: Morgan Williams, Soyeon Kim, Todd Hemker
Animators: Hsin-Ping Pan, Hsin-I Tseng
Effect Artist: Jesse Gregg                             Image Prep Artist: Jinna Kim
Compositors: Todd Hemker, Erik Tillmans, Richard Ramazinski, Jesse Gregg
Technical Directors: Blake Robertson, Erik Tillmans, Richard Ramazinski

More information can be found links below:

Art of the Titles

Animation Magazine Article

Yellowshed blog

'Cart Talkers' Won the American Graphic Design Award!

'Cart Talkers' illustrations that I worked on for the Frito Lays (Agency: The Marketing Arm) won the 2009 American Graphic Design Award sponsored by Graphic Design USA magazine.

The 2009 award results are featured in December 2009 issue of GD USA magazine. My name is listed on the page... 220!

Here is the screen capture of Amercia Graphic Design Award website!

i sent you love....

 

Illustrations by Soyeon

story about a woman, sending her love to her husband...

Goldfish crackers: spec design for the commercial pitch

Animated commercial 'Planetarium'

Here are storyboard panels that I made for the 'Planetarium'

Screening:
Anim'est (Bucharest, Romania)
Anirmau (Lalin, Spain)
Cartoons on the Bay (Roma, Italy)

You can view the clip under YELLOWSHED website under Animation

Opening Title Sequence Animation for 'Sloppy Joe'

I designed, animated and directed the opening titles of the PSA campaign for California State University Long Beach. 

Images were created in Illustrator & Photoshop, with mixture of hand-painted textures, then motions were created in After Effects.

For more information, please visit its official website.

'Sloppy Joe' production notes

Here is the pitch material: rough thumbnail sketches and 2 style frames.

Process: Character was re-designed to match the graphic style of title sequence based on Aubry's original character design. Textures were hand-painted using acrylic and watercolor, applied into photoshop file. Then, all elements were imported in Adobe After Effects in 3D space. Joe character was animated in After Effects as well as jointed puppet.

Last shot of 2d hand drawn animation was done by Aubry: re-use of Sloppy Joe's drinking shot from the main sequence.

Here is an image I made for the Sloppy Joe website: link to the crew image (of myself)