About 2 year ago I shifted back to TV animation after years of animating for games. It’s been such an interesting re-learning process! After years of tumbling around a 3D space, suddenly animations didn’t have to look good ‘in the round’! Character had to be lip-synced, and backgrounds had to be updated! Making a change was a really revitalizing for my psyche and I was lucky enough to be able to participate in Titmouse’s 5 Second Day- a day where employees take a day to make a short film or animation, or anything they want really, as long as it is at least 5 seconds long.
Honestly, it had been a long time since making a short film or putting myself out there like that, so I decided to just make something fun and delightful for myself and to celebrate the ‘new change in life’ energy. I found a piece of music that captured the joyous/delightfulI energy I was experiencing, and perused my own sketchbooks to find some thing that might fit the music.
The story (if you want to call it that, haha) came together really quickly once I had those 2 main elements. Here is what the first draft of the film looked like, just some rough boards!:
Below on the left, is about a days worth of work for reference, and to the right is the file after 2 or 3 days. The color design and details often take me much longer, but I think I like the end result and how the film overall came out!
