This project was made as part of the Fall 2025 program at Gunner School.
Flip the Script
Work with a group to write a short - yet meaningful - voiceover script, then create an animation to reinforce your ideas.
Acknowledgements
Sarah Beth Morgan
— Brief Contributor
Amy Sundin Unger
— Program Coordinator
Doyoung Kwon
— Reassigned Team Member
Boxfort Detroit
— Gunner School host studio
- Tiffany Bazán (@3D.tiff)
- Matthew Sorgie (@matthewsorgie)
- Océane Fairbanks (@motionbyocean)
Writing Process
Our team had 24 hours to write 3 lines which would be the basis for the animation. Together, we selected an excerpt from a poem by Richard Siken.
Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that means we’re inconsolable.
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we’ll never get used to it.
-Excerpt from Scheherazade, by Richard Siken
lighting design
From an Art History perspective, the lighting borrows from Andy Warhol’s Blue Movie. The color scheme was acheived by setting the render engine’s whitepoint to 3200K. This modified white balance exaggerates the differnces in color temperature between the scene lights.
All the lights are different color temperatures of white. The blue fills are 6500K. The hard sun is 3200K, and the soft sun is 1200K.
The warm edge technique is something I learned about from Chris Brejon’s CG Cinemagraphy book. [Link]
To create the shadow on the wall, Matthew cel animated a BW texture of the figure for me to bring into 3D. I placed it on a card to use as a blocker, and plugged the texture into the material’s alpha channel. This allowed us to create the shadow in-engine and have the warm edge effect on the figure as well.