The Final Completed Trailer and Reflection

Here it is the final trailer for the short film.


Final teaser from Jack Stollery on Vimeo.

Looking back on the production, I really feel that it could have gone alot more smoother. If I had know more about the actual amount of time available then I could have actually completed the whole short perhaps.

Another thing that I could have done was choose a more optimised story such as lured. The lured idea had one character to animate and that would have cut the time animating down by ten fold. I love both ideas but in the Lured idea (which the story could have easily been adjusted) there is only one character and environment and no voice acting. It could have been much more easier to do that than Shorc Film.

However, I'm very happy for the outcome of this trailer. I have had fun animating all the characters especially the character "Scorch" he was the most fun to animate, possibly because he was the most appealing and the easiest to draw. He's very easy to exaggerate and very expressive (which was an intended feature). Im glad to make the choice of creating a 2D produced film as aposed to a 3D produced film. it would have taken at least 3 times long to even get a trailer to create, model, rig, animate and render all the scenes if it had been done in 3D.

But regardless of the medium used, what matters is the animation, the emotion the acting. I would have really loved to have made all the line work really nice smooth, clean and crisp but alas, time prevails.These ideas will never die, but as long as the appeal, attitude and comedy is conveyed in the character whatever its been shown on, then its job done. :)

JS