SYNC

Three strangers share an unexpected moment in the sky (2021). Directed by Gunner.

Around 2015 I had this strange, beautiful experience with some strangers during a flight, and never forgot it. Rachel Reid gave me the courage to develop it into a fully-formed idea, and she lent her magic to it with her enchanting character design and animation. Then I had to pinch myself several times over the past few years, as Nick Forshee and Ian Sigmon supported and nurtured the film, and I got to collaborate with some of the most talented people I know to tell this (true) story!

 
Woman running with a bag down the center of an airplane
Image of a sky with a dark dramatic storm and a tiny plane flying right into it
 
image of 5 different views of a 3d modeled character
a gif showing visual dev. Two women sit on an airplane. There is a wipe transition between different treatments visually. The first is an untextured 3D model, then we see a swipe to show the texture, then the lighting, then the painterly texture.

Projection test by Handel Eugene

 

Check out the instagram of just close-up images from the film:
@paintings_of_sync

Credits

Directed by Gunner

Original Score & Sound Design

Ambrose Yu

Produced By

Brandon Delis, Katelyn Wheeler

Technical Direction

Nick Forshee

Art Direction

Collin Leix, Rachel Reid

Character Animation Supervisor

Rachel Reid

Illustration

Collin Leix, Rachel Reid, Jay Quercia, Daniel Chang

3D Character Animation

Rachel Reid, Kristen Rhee, Fraser Littlejohn

2D Animation & Compositing

Nick Forshee, Handel Eugene, Collin Leix, Ian Sigmon

Cel Animation

Rachel Reid, Jay Quercia, Sarah Abbott

3D Animation

Nick Forshee, Handel Eugene, Collin Leix

Texturing

Collin Leix, Nick Forshee, Handel Eugene

Rigging & Modeling

Chris Nelder, Maritza Louis

Song in Headphones

'Echo Chasers' by A Sense of Gravity