My Animation "Blog"
Here are a bunch of drawings and posts about my senior-thesis film, "The Birthday of the Infanta" my adaptation of the Oscar Wilde short story. Summary: It's the 12th birthday of the Spanish Princess, the Infanta. Everyone has come to celebrate, and there is much entertainment. Suddenly, the king brings in a small dwarf that was found in the woods, and the dwarf dances for everyone. The Infanta thinks he is so funny that she playfully throws him her rose. The dwarf mistakes this for genuine affection and falls in love with the Infanta. He goes off to find her in the castle and instead finds himself in a huge mysterious hall. There is a shadowy figure at the end, and he rushes towards it. But it's not the Infanta, but some weird little dude. Eventually he figures out this ugly creature is himself, and he dies in shock. The Infanta finds him on the floor, and when her uncle explains that he can't dance anymore because of his broken heart, she says
"In the future, let those who play with me have no hearts."
Screening at Merging Arts Short Short Film Festival at Think Cafe!
11.09
Rejected from the Animazing Show but they wrote: "Worthy adaptation told through visual means, a persuasive mirror sequence."
9.21.09
TEASER TRAILER & SCREENSHOTS!
The Birthday of the Infanta - Teaser from Tristian Goik on Vimeo.
SCREENSHOTS!
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3.23.09
BACKGROUNDS
Hi ho the dairy O. I am writing my Protovin thank you letter (ridiculousness). In the mean time I spent my entire Spring Break in the animation lab painting backgrounds. Yay... Enjoy:
3.4.09
Heyo. I actually have been working on this film but I haven't had time to keep it updated here. I have now completed the animation and can start working on other things like BACKGROUNDS!!!!! but more importantly i got the
RICHARD PROTOVIN AWARD
YAAAY ME!!!!! And Andrew Jerez, and Harry Teitelman. We get to split the prize money 50%, 25% 25% (Andrew and Harry are working together on one film.)
12.22.08
FINAL ROUGH ANIMATION!
Now with some silly techno music! To set the mood...
11.05.08
ROUGH ANIMATION
Some Time Ago...
HOT INFANTA
What the infanta would look like at 18 yrs old.
10.2.08
ANIMATIC
This is my animatic, which is the intermediate stage between storyboards and animation. Enjoy!
9.18.08
STORYBOARDS.
I originally made 167 story boards and I had to cut it down to about 112. But I really liked my work and ideas, so this little fast movie is dedicated to archiving my storyboards. The music I threw in there as a general theme, and it doesn't really match well, but it will do till I post my animatic.
MAY 2008
Here is the final portfolio I made in Drawing & Design.
These are character rotations of my two main people, the dwarf and the Infanta:
Here is a character line up...sadly the Gypsy and the King were cut from the film...
Here are various comic situations, like drugs and pregnancy:
Some emotions and mouth-charts:
Early storyboards (of many cut scenes):
Set designs:
MARCH 2008
These are the initial rough sketches and ideas for the animation, from my Drawing & Design class. Click on it to see it bigger. That last sketch is a Punk version of my characters, haha
Tristian K. Goik
tkg211@nyu.edu
New York, NY
