Hiccups the movie

Hiccups, the tale of an epic spasm of the diaphragm and those living under its tyrannical reign! This is an award winning short from KCC's New Media Arts program in which I was heavily involved. With festivals all wrapped, I can finally post it!

Hiccups was largely produced in 2007, with a bit of extra detail work put in by yours truly through early 2008. With a core of 4 lead students, and a few other helping hands this project was ours alone, start to finish.

The overall story is the one aspect I can't lay major claims to, that credit goes to Cameron Nitta and Jay Susuico. I took part in group discussions over the specific gags and story flow, rather than outright script and concept writing. Once I tackled the storyboards and concept art however, I began adding to the scenes in some significant fashion.

I thought the visual style ended up working out pretty well, an aspect in which I had much more involvement from the start. As noted in the credits, I was lead director, editor, DP, compositor, and personally handled the majority of the lighting setup. I also tackled the character UVs and textures, as well as a few key props (chicken, the paper bag, etc) and some animation work here and there.

Of course many props to everyone else on the crew chiefly:
Cameron, Jay, and

[link] for more info!
[link] for the Trailer!