{"id":36,"date":"2016-01-27T21:50:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fitymi\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2016-04-26T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T21:11:07","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fitymi\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fake it &#8216;Till You Make it Animation Studio<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1025\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sMEW9uwqEUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>FITYMI<\/strong> is a small animation studio in\u00a0the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center. Our goal is two-fold:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Create a short animated film based on pre-production materials and research passed down from the previous ETC animation studio, <a href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/para-productions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Para Productions.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Create new pre-production materials for a new concept which will then be passed to our successor production studio.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Our current production, titled &#8220;Lovers Meet,&#8221;\u00a0is a blended live-action\/animated short film about a young man, Isaac, who finds himself inside an impressionist painting (inspired by the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/afremov.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leonid Afremov<\/a>.) Stricken by the thought of losing his soon-to-be long distance girlfriend, Isaac learns from an unlikely friend that love is worth fighting for.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pre-production materials we are creating for the Fall 2016 production studio will be for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sea of Storie<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s, our concept for a short Virtual Reality Immersive Artistic Experience. This concept was inspired by an\u00a0except from a novel titled <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haroun_and_the_Sea_of_Stories\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Haroun and the Sea of Stories<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haroun_and_the_Sea_of_Stories\" target=\"_blank\">.<\/a> The experience will consist of the Guest flying on the back of a giant bird above and inside the sea which consists of rainbow currents that represent all stories that have ever been told and that will be told. Rather than a linear narrative animation, we are hoping this will function more as a tech and art showpiece; meaning, while it is a complete experience, we want the artists and programmers to be able to express themselves while building their skills to create a beautiful portfolio piece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake it &#8216;Till You Make it Animation Studio FITYMI is a small animation studio in\u00a0the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center. Our goal is two-fold: Create a short animated film <a href=\"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fitymi\/\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","author-bbeebe","post-36","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fitymi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fitymi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fitymi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fitymi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fitymi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fitymi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fitymi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/fitymi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}