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During our previous weekly production feedback session with Derek and Nick, I also tried combining the wave test shot onto the stop motion background and this was what we ended up with: We gathered that stop-motion sets were probably not the wise way to go as the sets didn't look like they were uniform in a sense that...

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As our ShelterBox idea involved making a hybrid between stop-motion and 2D, Ting and I started building the set for our short film. We decided to make the sandcastles with clay and coat it with sand for the 'houses' and draw 2D windows & doors on it. For the beach setting, we stuck with the idea of painting...

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One of the major issues that we had as a team on starting the ShelterBox film was all the water animation that we had to do. We've all not animated water before and it was proven to be a difficult task. We did our research and looked from subtle wave references to tsunami crashing references. It went from...

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Following up from the script & beats breakdown from the previous post that you can read here, we aimed to get the animatic completed within a week in order to quicken the pace of production. Over the weekend I started animating my last part of the beats whereby the villagers get together and push the ShelterBox boxes together...

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