Animation Monday 2

Last week I think I called this Great Animation Mondays or something. Well today, it’s Old Animation Monday.  I was cleaning up and found an old project. It was shot on 16mm at UCLA, and I hadn’t seen a copy of it since my first semester. Anyway, I ‘reshot’ it using iStopmotion and threw some music in using After Effects. And here is a 20 second masterpiece! OK, maybe it’s not bound for the American Film Archives after all. But it’s a great method to do simple animation. No cells, no camera work, no breakdown to layers ETC. On every frame, everything is redrawn. It works fine for  20 seconds. I was lucky to still have the timing sheets. As simple as it is, it reminds me how much I enjoy the drawn line, and how far computer animation has gone into the realm of machine aesthetics.Enjoy Roses are Red on YouTube. I should say, this is not really a pencil test for a scene - it is a 15 second film. The goal of this project was to create a short story in 15 seconds and shoot it under the camera to learn that process (yes, they were still teaching 16mm cameras back in 04). It’s pretty primitive stuff, and not a technical masterpiece, just a chance to goof around and tell a short, short story.