Aki
A servant girl and a stray dog are fast friends in Edo-period Kyoto. A tense confrontation changes the course of their fate. A 3D-animated senior thesis film by Taylor Reynolds at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, in Japanese with English subtitles.
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“Aki” by Taylor Reynolds · Licensed under CC BY 3.0
How it was made
A senior thesis film from Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, animated, modeled, and edited by its director, Taylor Reynolds.
- 3D animation
Characters and worlds built and animated as computer models.
- Student film
Made by students in a film or animation program.
- Independent production
Made outside the major studio system.
Credits
- Writer and director
- Taylor Reynolds
- Producer
- Aidan Wood
- Voices
- Sascha Tominaga (Kiyo), Dee Bradley Baker (Aki), Soji Arai (the ronin), Kazumi Zatkin (Madame)
- Music
- Karin Okada
- Sound design
- Helena McGill
- Character design
- Taylor Reynolds, Elizabeth Walcher, Evan Barraza
- Character rigging
- Matthieu Laillier
- Animation, modeling, and editing
- Taylor Reynolds
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