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Ormie
Rob Silvestri
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Ormie is a pig with a problem. Ormie likes cookies . . . if only he could reach them! Can anything stand in the way between a pig and his sweet obsession? Find out in the latest short sensation from Starz Animation.
Early in the production of “Ormie”, clear aesthetic goals were established by spending time sketching and storyboarding the character’s subtle and extreme actions. This made for a smooth and appealing transition from the hand-drawn designs into 3D animation. Computer-generated characters and props are composed over abstract watercolor paintings used to frame the action and support the illusion of Ormie’s surreal world. Through his escalating emotional performance, Ormie demonstrates squash-and-stretch deformation, clean storytelling poses, comedic timing as well as the inventive imaginations of the team behind the character.
Early in the production of “Ormie”, clear aesthetic goals were established by spending time sketching and storyboarding the character’s subtle and extreme actions. This made for a smooth and appealing transition from the hand-drawn designs into 3D animation. Computer-generated characters and props are composed over abstract watercolor paintings used to frame the action and support the illusion of Ormie’s surreal world. Through his escalating emotional performance, Ormie demonstrates squash-and-stretch deformation, clean storytelling poses, comedic timing as well as the inventive imaginations of the team behind the character.
Created and directed by Rob Silvestri; Produced by Graham Moloy; CG supervisor: Ken Ouellette; Edited by Matt Ahrens; Production manager: Susan Sullivan; Executive producers: David Steinberg, Matthew Teevan; Visual development: Charlie
Bonifacio, Daryl Graham; Art: Kevin R. Adams, Andrew Hickson, Olga Stern, Andrew Woodhouse; Storyboards: John Flagg; Character rigging: Ray Faenza, Brad Pitre; Modeling and animation artists: Joel Beaudet, Renee Brunton, Shibabrata Chakraborty, Lawrence Choi, Luis de Campos, Graham Finley, Jesse Lickman, Christie Moore, Angad Singh, Ian Spriggs; Surfacing artists: Freddy Chaleur, Jeong-Won Cho, Natalya Kuzmina, Hong-Mao (Jeff) Lin; Effects artists: Alexander Feigin, Bahador Mehrpouya; Lighting & compositing: Jing Jing Liu, Anna Wagner-Lopez; Post-production: Alan Kennedy, Ryan Quaglia
Bonifacio, Daryl Graham; Art: Kevin R. Adams, Andrew Hickson, Olga Stern, Andrew Woodhouse; Storyboards: John Flagg; Character rigging: Ray Faenza, Brad Pitre; Modeling and animation artists: Joel Beaudet, Renee Brunton, Shibabrata Chakraborty, Lawrence Choi, Luis de Campos, Graham Finley, Jesse Lickman, Christie Moore, Angad Singh, Ian Spriggs; Surfacing artists: Freddy Chaleur, Jeong-Won Cho, Natalya Kuzmina, Hong-Mao (Jeff) Lin; Effects artists: Alexander Feigin, Bahador Mehrpouya; Lighting & compositing: Jing Jing Liu, Anna Wagner-Lopez; Post-production: Alan Kennedy, Ryan Quaglia
Rob Silvestri (CA), creator and director of “Ormie”, the new animated series from Starz Animation Toronto. He has been a senior character animator at Starz Animation Toronto since early 2006, working on such highprofile CG-animated features as the upcoming “Gnomeo & Juliet” (from Miramax Films and Elton John’s Rocket Pictures). Prior to joining Starz Animation Toronto, Silvestri worked on animation projects for Red Rover Animation, C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures and AAC Productions, and continues to teach animation at Seneca College’s Animation Arts Centre. Silvestri is a graduate of Seneca College, with a 3-D animation post-diploma in Maya.