Here are the 10 films I produced over the two weeks:
My 1st day was a bit of a panic, I didn't really think through the time I had and made a traditionally animated film with partial oil pastel rendering. I didn't really know how this would end up looking but I thought that I should be experimenting with methods if I could over the two weeks I had. It's inspired by the beginning of the Emily Dickinson poem 'Started Early-Took My Dog'. The animation itself isn't too bad but I'm not happy with the final product as it looks messy and having the narration over by itself without music makes it feel a little empty.
My 2nd film is a clip of action for a fight between a knight and a dragon, I like the final look of this film but think that the movement isn't quite right and it lacks character.
Music by Julius Moerdijk:
Day 3 is where I really started enjoying what I was making. This film is about a mouse's journey and welcome home. I like my characters and backgrounds but think the animation upon her returning home to her wife is a little patchy. 3 composers added music to this video which was crazy, it was really cool to see their different interpretations.
Music by Natalie Roder:
Music by Leon Eisenbach:
Music by Matthew Harazim:
My day 4 was an atmosphere piece, I spent most of my time on the digital background after animating the blue fox with modelling clay on a flat surface. Although the animation isn't perfect I do like the style that this piece has. Danne Hathaway and Alessandra Krieg both made music for this one and both are beautiful!
Music by Danne Hathaway:
Music by Alessandra Krieg:
I spent the most time on my 5th film, working on roughs first then going over them to make the maid have clean lines, I used the same method for the ghost too but as she moved less and had a looser style she didn't take so long. I'm happy with the final product, showing a maid and a ghost in different parts of a grand Victorian house to go with the theme 'Apart'. Matthew Harazim and Enya Liao both made music for it which I was flattered by.
Music by Matthew Harazim:
Music by Enya Liao:
I had a good time animating this one, I was using red riding hood redesigns I had made a while ago and enjoyed working in this style. I think that the composition of the shots worked effectively throughout but the pacing seems a little off. Danne Hathaway made a soundtrack that sounded film noir to me which surprised me but works well.
Danne Hathaway's Music:
I'm not super happy with my 7th film, I had ended up restarting from another idea that didn't work out on this day so I rushed through this shark playing fetch a bit.
My day 8 film was inspired by The Fates/Moirai from Greek mythology, showing the ravelling, the measurement and the cutting of the thread of life. I made it pretty simple because this was another day I restarted halfway through, but had luckily sketched up some vague characters for a similar idea over the weekend so kept with the animalistic designs.
I only spent a couple hours on my 9th film as I had a migraine but I'm oddly happy with it considering it's so simple. It was fun to draw something that wasn't serious like a cat wearing shades driving a vintage Cadillac.
My final film of 10x10x21 was about someone making a star. I originally planned to do more shots and a different ending but I ended up being too tired to do them so I cut it down to the shots at the desk and the release of the star at the end. I had made a shot of a house floating in space above the earth for the maker to be living in but it didn't end up fitting with new ending. I'd like to explore this style more in the future as I think the combination of brushes to make shadow and light worked effectively to create an atmosphere. JunHee Kim made a soundtrack for this film which I thought had a really nice contemplative feeling to it.
Music by JunHee Kim:
My methods have definitely changed over the 10 days of work and it's cool to look back and see that I've made 10 films, even if I'm not happy with all of them. Here are my sketchbook pages from over the two weeks:
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