A lil delayed but here we are :)

Took a while, but finally get a chance to do my update :) Made for Mother's Day, 8 months in the making, numerous sushi consumed to ease aching stress...

Music Performed by Ami Li

Made With Love from Stephanie Chan on Vimeo.

As Promised, the 3rd year film...

Oddysea from Stephanie Chan on Vimeo.

I am still very mixed emotions about this film, but for sure and super proud of everyone who helped put this together!

Sorry, I really haven't updated in a while. But soon! Here is the film from that year, that took hours to upload due to slow internet, heh.

Next post will hopefully be with the new leica for the 4th year film (so many new ones, with new boards!) and some development art. Oh how I wish I had a scanner at home!

Cleaning out the server...

Spent the day story boarding and finishing up my leika v.1 for this year's film. So far I'm not really pleased with the results. Will tweek it a bit more then post for help. Sheridan got so many cintiqs in this year, it's great! I'm ordering mine soon, but will try to make do a little while longer.

Also had some fun times going through the server, backing up and cleaning out the stuff from last year. Reminded me that I didn't post the link to our film. Here is some stuff I fished out of the server that hibernated over the summer months...




Responsible only for the water splash. Everything else (including compositing) was completed by Qian Wang.



Animated Traditional (flipping and rolling paper!)
Coloured in Flipbook
Composited in Adobe After Effects

Last few days...

I finish Coop on Wednesday, which is a sad thought. There is still so much I want to do here! Currently workingon developing the fourth year film which is a nice little bumpy ride. Okay maybe a big bump. Anyways, I'll post more of that later on. Here is some of the work I did at Big jump the last three months!

Design a girl, and rigged her in Flash. This is her rotation.



A Rough animation done in Flash on a Cintiq in the first week of Coop. Quite a scary moment, since it was hard to get used to the fact that I have put hesitation lines down like with a Col-erase!


The Clean up of the sneak. There are so many problems with this but I'll refrain from fixing them. Learnt a lot about how terrible my original rig was from this XD


And finally a walk cycle that can be reused. Some took a few days, some took a few weeks, some as many as 4 retries! But in the end, if its nailed, you only gotta animate it once :)

Survived the 3rd year film!

Still in recovery mode from the weird film hours during the last few months. It was quite strange as I needed to work at the studio for the light tables, but need super quietness, which means either getting up before the birds.

Working with everyone was amazing, really got to know a lot of people really well. From work ethics to interest... definetely interesting.

Sadly our film did not turn out as solid as we could've made it. I think a few hours more would've done the trick for uniting the scenes however the screening yesterday went pretty favourable... we hit many of the gags, and the projector helped desaturated the screen (yay! color unification...) I feel horrible for having not been more on top of things so that the last week could've been spent helping others, but overall pretty content. Ashlyn, we've seen your baby through! :D

Currently working on getting a copy online, but for now, I'll post some stills of a splash I made for Qian's scene.

Press play!

rough pass...gonna fix it up in the new years

SCHOOL IS OUT! whooo!!

Hello summer break! Today's the last day of school, and have handed my final piece of work a couple hours ago...whoo!


So I realised there's been nearly no school assignment updates this year, so this post consists of decent ish animations of Sheridan Year 2!

Semester 1:

Walk and Run Cycles


Expression Change


Semester 2:

Human Lip Sync


Muzzle Lip Sync


Beak Lip Sync

Final Anim: FLOUR SACK!!!!!

I honestly was stumped at what to do with a flour sack and dentures interaction. I cursed my misfortunes and said...damn...denture...what then hell do they do other than give you teeth?! and it didnt help to see that the only other 2 denture movies was a giant one falling on top of the flour sack and a flour sack grabbing them and putting them on.

Anyways, long story cut shot: i made a storyboard, and non of it made it to the final clip lol :D

i forgot about this head turnaround

thanks jen for reminding me XD...

Animation: Ball with tail

I should be sleeping....yes i should...only slept 6 hours this week, and i blame last night on this animation..:D I'm content...happier than the seaweed.....ugh...baaaaddd choices...

Animations: Waving Seaweed, Waving Paper

Second Animation assignment....

Waving Seaweed was supposed to be in an aquarium...that didnt turn out too well :(


Second part is the Waving paper:

And now for something more interesting..Animation Assignment 1!

Most Sheridan people saw this already, our first Animation Assignment: Bouncing Ball, Bowling Ball, Balloon and Pendulum :D

These assignments were darn headaches and were very much tree killers :( But they are done, and got a decent grade for em :D

Rubber Ball:

Bowling Ball: I'd like to say I did this at 8 AM in the morning the day it was due because the other one sucked. A LOT.

Balloon: It seems to cut out in the end...oh well :)

Pendulum: