2002 Great Lakes Independent Film Festival

Something Fishy

Category: Animation  3min 18sec
Director: Ed Konyha

A computer-animated short about a shrimp discovering his place in the undersea food chain!

Director: Ed Konyha
Ed Konyha founded Brainchild Studios with his brother, Dan and Roy Trivett in 1998 with the commitment to building a computer animation studio that would produce high quality entertainment for all ages. After a couple of years producing animation for companies like Disney Interactive, Hasbro Interactive and Lego Media, the studio decided to produce it’s first original animated short as a way to bring attention to Brainchild’s creative team and promote the studio. The short that was produced was “Something Fishy”. “We made the film to promote Brainchild’s animation, and story-telling talents, and initially we thought we put it on the Festival circuit to get some exposure for the Studio. This film was based on an idea I had a few years back, and I thought it was the perfect subject, and length for what we were trying to do. In the end, it came together amazingly well from verbal description, to storyboard, design and completed animation, it took all of seven weeks to produce – which is a real testament to the talents of our animators, and the efficiency of our production process.  Doing cartoon shorts are great – we really get to push the envelope technologically and creatively, and the animators love it because it’s an exciting diversion from their long-term projects. Things have worked out so well with SF – that we’re planning another CG short as we speak - we’re planning some long-form feature projects as well.”