"Good Soup" Animation Film-Maker Q&A

In this short "making of" video,  Jessa Timog-Santiago, director of the multi-award-winning short film "Good Soup", explains how the film was created.  Good Soup was completed by our graduating class of animation students at Escape Studios.  Directed by Jessa Timog-Santiago and produced by Iulineia Filip,  Good Soup was made using Maya, Substance Painter, and Unreal Engine.  The editor was Rohnak Sharma.  Good Soup has won many festival awards. 

You can watch Good Soup at Vimeo below:

GoodSoup from Jessa Veronica on Vimeo.

Good Soup

Meet "Good Soup", the latest animated short created by our graduating class of animation students at Escape Studios. Directed by Jessa Timog-Santiago and produced by Iulineia Filip,  Good Soup was made using Maya, Substance Painter, and Unreal Engine.  Grumpy septuagenarian Mr Green tries unsuccessfully to open a stubborn can of soup; the hungrier he gets, the more desperate he becomes. 

Software

"Good Soup" was animated in Maya, edited in Adobe Premiere Pro, and rendered in Unreal Engine. Textures were created in Substance Painter. 

Credits

• Jessa Timog-Santiago - Director, Story/Concept, Animator, Production Design, Render Wrangler
• Iulineia Filip - Producer, Animator, Motion Graphics
• Alex Maynard - CG Supervisor, Animator, Layout Artist, Render Wrangler
• Juliana Aczel - Art Director, Storyboard Artist, Concept Artist, Animator
• Victoria Stoykova - Lead Animator, Storyboard Artist, Prop Rigging, Groom, Colour Scripts
• Rohnak Sharma - Assistant Director, Editor, Animator, Sound Design
• Meah Materego - Wardeck- Lighting Artist, Animator
• Anand Sembhi - Layout Artist, Animator
• Danish Adeem - Modelling Artist, Texture Artist, Animator
• Marc Stevenson - Voice of Mr. Green
• Ben Swallow - Additional Rigging
• Mantas Norkus - Modelling Artist, Texture Artist
  
• Music: "Bacchanale" from "Samson & Delilah" by Camille Saint-Saens

Tutors 

Good Soup was supervised was supervised by animation tutors Paul Harrison and Steven Lall.  

Jessa Timog-Santiago

Thanks to Our Industry Partners

Escape Studios would like to thank Blue Zoo lead animator Will Lloyd-Cook and Juani Guiraldes from ILM on their feedback and support throughout.

Escape Method

Industry feedback is at the heart of what we do at Escape Studios, part of the "Escape Method", a blend of classroom teaching, online tutorials, constructive feedback, industry engagement, and group project work, simulation as closely as possible the workings of a real animation studio.

Festival Success

Team "Good Soup"

Good Soup has won a number of festival awards:

• Best Animated Short at the Escape Studios Graduation Show (voted by industry)
• Best Editing at the London Film Awards
• Best Animated Short at the Makihzmithran International Film Festival
• Best Micro Short at the Vesuvius Film Festival

IMDB

You can find Good Soup at the IMDB here.

Rookies

You can find Good Soup at The Rookies here.

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