This is a fake trailer I put together of an actual short film that Max Silver made during this last term at Carleton. Why make a fake trailer? Well, you might notice that every shot in the video is an effects shot. Basically, I just picked out all of the effects and animations that I had made for Max's film, slapped them together and turned it in as my final project for Advanced Editing Techniques. Since the requirement was that it be in the form of a movie trailer, I added a few basic titles and a ridiculous voice over.
Don't worry, it's not supposed to make any sense at all (although that doesn't mean that those of you are theoretically inclined can't analyze it and reach unintentional conclusions).
Animated crows and Suns from Alexander Cooney on Vimeo.
The big personal achievement here is the scene with the talking crows. It's the first bit of extended character animation that I've ever done in either medium, and it's certainly the first in which I've had to lip synch the characters to pre-recorded dialogue. Lots of time went into that shot. It took about a solid day's work to model each crow, another to rig it, and yet another animate it. With two crows, that came to a total of six days in the ole' Scoville media lab for forty seconds worth of footage (I will add, however, that were I to have done this with traditional cel animation, it would have easily taken double that time).
Needless to say, it proved to be a tremendous learning experience, and I'm now confident that I can produce effects and animations that contain articulated, sympathetic characters who can talk and interact with each other in a meaningful way. Monsters, aliens, animated short films-- they're all possible now.
Don't worry, it's not supposed to make any sense at all (although that doesn't mean that those of you are theoretically inclined can't analyze it and reach unintentional conclusions).
Animated crows and Suns from Alexander Cooney on Vimeo.
The big personal achievement here is the scene with the talking crows. It's the first bit of extended character animation that I've ever done in either medium, and it's certainly the first in which I've had to lip synch the characters to pre-recorded dialogue. Lots of time went into that shot. It took about a solid day's work to model each crow, another to rig it, and yet another animate it. With two crows, that came to a total of six days in the ole' Scoville media lab for forty seconds worth of footage (I will add, however, that were I to have done this with traditional cel animation, it would have easily taken double that time).
Needless to say, it proved to be a tremendous learning experience, and I'm now confident that I can produce effects and animations that contain articulated, sympathetic characters who can talk and interact with each other in a meaningful way. Monsters, aliens, animated short films-- they're all possible now.
This is actually awesome. I guess if you make a movie effects-heavy enough or shoot it in a way that makes it clearly artificial, ridiculously obvious and weird CG like this works really well.
Posted by: David | April 07, 2009 at 10:21 AM