Visual Effect work for the short film “The Spirit Seam.” A combination of stop-motion, 2-D and 3-D, our task was to create the smoke and sparkles that connote either happiness or illness depending on the situation at hand.
written & DIRECTED BY Ashley Gerst / USA
CLIENT: Ashley Gerst
ROLE: Visual effects animator
Credits_
Cast //
Mia Kain as Pollywog
Color Development //
Laura Charles
Storyboard/Animatic //
Ashley Gerst, Benjamin Morse
Set Design and Construction //
Ashley Gerst
VFX //
Emily Suber
Digital Fabrication //
Jasper Lin
Construction Assistants //
Emily Suber, Mieka Lewis, Sonia Garbes-Putzel, Yutah S., Allan B., Jaime Ekkens, Benjamin Morse, Vicky Leta, Elisha Dora, Jane Gorton, Belle Pedid, Jackie Moss, Rose Pedid, Janet Simek, Polly Baker, Christine Glasby, Eloise Glasby, Austin Glasby, Adri Nerone, Megan Kern, Cassandra Lagunzad Brown, Tori Septien
Animators //
Ashley Gerst, Adam Momsen, Morgan Taylor
Illustration Artists //
Benjamin Morse, Annabelle Pedid, Vicky Leta
Children’s Drawings //
Olivia Tucker, Mia Kain
Interior Set & Character Modeling //
Ashley Gers, Michael Somoza
Vehicle Modeling and Rigging //
Chris Murphy
Graphics and Title Design //
Benjamin Morse
Sound Design //
Jake Mautner, Jasper Lin
Music //
Stanley Brothers, The. “Dream Of A Miner's Child.” Friends Of Old Time Music: The Folk Annual 1961-1965, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2006, track 6.
Jenks, Orville J. and Korson, George Gershon. “Sprinkle Coal Dust on My Grave.” Songs and Ballads of the Bituminous Miners. Library of Congress, 1965.
Pasquarosa, Anthony. “Run For Life, Death Is Near (Sequence 1).” Abbandonato da Dio Nazione. Vin Du Select Qualitite, 2017, track 2.