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The recent winner of a Student Academy Award in the animation category, Nashville native Bevin Carnes' charming CG short "A Leg Up" combines the narrative poignancy of Pixar with the adorable qualities of an old Disney classic. The film follows a cute robot, whose leg takes on a mind of its own, but the movie takes on greater themes of conformity and individuality.
Recently graduated from the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, Carnes chose to make "A Leg Up" after her Ringling thesis project, because she felt she could tell a more compelling story.
Using such software as Maya, RenderMan, Photoshop, Shake and Premiere, Carnes has said that the biggest challenge of the film wasn't the top-notch-looking computer animation, but telling the story in two minutes. "It's hard to even get a story to make sense in a film that is two minutes or less, much less try to say something meaningful with that story," she told Animation Magazine. "Also having a lot of characters was a big challenge technically. To all you students out there, I'm sure you've heard it before, but don't have six characters in your thesis!"
Carnes is currently working as an apprentice at Rhythm and Hues Studios in Los Angeles (responsible for visual effects on The Chronicles of Narnia and The Golden Compass) and hopes to make her own feature films some day. She is also interested in gaming, and "how games might merge with film someday," she said. "I think there is tremendous potential in interactivity as far as conveying emotion, and I think that someday gaming could become a high art form that could explore a broad range of meaningful topics, just as film does today."
For more Carnes, check out her website: http://www.bevincarnes.com
Bevin Carnes
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