Encounters Short Film Festival: Bear at the Cliff

I am pleased to say that Bear at the Cliff will be screened in this year's Encounters Short Film Festival right where it is made, in Bristol!

For those who are interested, the film will be shown in Emerging Talent: 2 programme on Wed 18th Nov at 20:30 and Fri 20th Nov at 12:30.

I am really looking forward to the festival, between meeting my international friends again and seeing quite a few shorts I have been wanting to see on the big screen!

Animation: Bear at the Cliff

A playful boy and his protective dog, along with a bucket full of fresh fish meeting a hungry polar bear at a sea cliff is a recipe for disaster. What starts out as pure curiosity soon turns potentially lethal with a single misstep.

Film by Woon Bing Chang
Music by Tuned Up Productions
Date of Production: Oct 08 to May 09
Running Time: Approximately 2 Minutes (including credits)
Image Ratio: 16:9
Animation Techniques: CGI - Maya 2008 (with Pixar Renderman), Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Premier, Audition

Bear at the Cliff from WoonBing on Vimeo.

Animation: Bear at the Cliff 2: Paper Toys

Here are some Beat at the Cliff Paper Toys!
With some scissors and glue, you can have your very own Bear at the Cliff characters.
(These are just preview images, please click on the links to the print-quality pdfs below.)

The Links to the pdf files:

Dog and Props (1 page, 408kb)
Boy (1 page, 414kb )
Bear (3 pages, 1.95mb)
The zip file of the full package (2.05mb)

All the files are designed to be printed on A4 sheets.
For the best results, white printing paper of at least 160 g/m² recommended.

Have Fun!

Animation: Bear at the Cliff 1

I'm excited to say that Bear at the Cliff is completed. The film will be screening in the upcoming Degree Show in the new animation center at Bower Ashton, Bristol from 19th to 25th June.

Here are some stills from the film.

Looking forward to share the film with you in the future.

Animation: Bear at the Cliff [WIP] 3

The process of making Bear at the Cliff, a comparison from pre-production to post production.

Bear at the Cliff: Process 01 from WoonBing on Vimeo.

The storyboard was draw in Photoshop and composed in After Effects.
Animated in Maya 2008 and rendered with Pixar's Renderman.

Animation: Bear at the Cliff [WIP] 2

Here are some renders of the characters


and the turnarounds


Bear at the Cliff: rotating Boy from WoonBing on Vimeo.


Bear at the Cliff: rotating Dog from WoonBing on Vimeo.


Bear at the Cliff: rotating Bear from WoonBing on Vimeo.

I suppose polygonal modeling in Maya can be quite fun and Renderman is absolutely lovely, when it does work.

Animation: Bear at the Cliff [WIP]

A short 3D animation about the chance encounter between a boy, his dog and a hungry polar bear at a sea cliff.

The character designs

Preliminary inspirational sketches

Examples from my storyboard

Early render tests

Scheduled to be screened in June.
More updates coming soon.