I chose this one to be the main one.
I wanted to make a little sentimental story, I usually like to start by writing my idea down as a sort of script and then story board it out if I think its an okay idea.
Little creature playing in the snow, he eventually stops to look around and notices that he is all alone. He is the worried. He shouts for his friends. then he is sad when their is no reply. He walks through to a foresty area, he sees a small fury thing. He goes up to turn him around and notices its not the same creature as him. the creature turns away and leaves. cut to several scenes of the little creature walking, snowball runs past him. He stops after a while to rest. suddenly the ground starts shaking. A giant creature pops out of the snow. Little creature is scared and runs away. he runs into another scene and stops, shocked he sees a mysterious creature. it turns around to see him and runs away. the little creature is sad. he looks defeated. then he hears something, its his family! He runs towards the sound and then bashes into another creature. Change to him opening his eyes and he sees the other character . its his family! they hug and the rest of his family comes. everything is good.
Once I was happy with the idea I started to story board.
After that I started making my characters.
lol
One problem I eventually faced was that I didn't really rig my characters very well and when it came to animating they really didn't walk very well. I tried rigging them with clear thread but could could still see it and it was a very slow process. I also found a magnet and tried to rig the feet with paper clips but the magnet was way too strong and messed up the feet alot. This is something I will need to remember for the future but I'm glad I made this mistake at an early stage in the course, I will definitely put more thought into this for the future. and hopefully it will improve my future films.
So I began filming. I used about 8 bottles of salt again to make my set. I had less than a week to film about 40 scenes......fuck. I just had to power through it. I'm not going to bombard you with every scene cause this post would be huge and i really don't want to render out and upload every image sequence. I can show you my tests though.
I like to work by editing together what i have so far to see if its working together and to see if i need anything else to make it flow better. especially since I hadn't made an animatic I really wanted to be sure that what I was filming was working together. so here are a couple of the tests
Test 1
I finished filming on the 18th of December and I tried to edit it all together but in all honesty I was dead. I just couldnt really face editing any more, I just wanted to chill for Christmas. So for a couple days i just did. After a few days I thought it would be a shame to not put something out for christmas but I really didnt want to rush it, I had worked to hard to put out something shit. So I made a small teaser. It was short enough for me to out in enough effort to make it look good without feeling rushed. After that I shunned all work and chilled for Christmas.
After Christmas I went to look at what I had again. I had used a piece of music from freesound.org but it was only 10 seconds. I contacted the musician of the piece who sent me the score but didnt seem keen on composing anything for the film. I had another musician in mind and after asking him he was more than happy to create something for me.
I had to make a locked in edit for him to work to, so I added some rough sounds and made sure all the timings were correct. I then added in annotations of what I might like for music and then handed it over.
Once the music is created I will animate the overlay sequence of the reindeer in and then add some visual effects. Hopefully it wont look too bad.
UPDATE!
so here is a draft of the music which is amazing! Im so happy with what Thomas did! now I just need to add the sequences, visual effects and better sound and Ill be laughing......haha
Oh also I saw a little animation competition where I could win $1000, But you have to use this god awful music but I thought why not eh? Here is my trainwreck of a film for that hahahaha
Here is the film finally finished.
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