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These are a collection of stills from a short animated film I recently completed. I worked with a friend of mine who is a music producer and wrote the music for this animation, and then I went away and animated to the music. The basic story is this: The main character (guy with the big mask) has some serious mental problems, and as he's a sorcerer he decides to use his magic to enter his own mind to see if he can sort things out. He walks through the city of his mind and reaches a huge structure which leads him into his inner mind. The creatures that run his inner mind aren't exactly happy with his presence, and the very problems he's come to sort out turn against him. He is flung up into the air, where numerous creatures/demons attack him and eventually kill. A nice happy ending.As I can't upload the animation on this site, here is a link to it on my MySpace page. If it doesn't work, then on that page just above the animation is a link to YouTube, where it should definitely work. [link]
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Great atmosphere and feel. I'm a animator myself so I know how hard it is to create an animation piece. Check out: [link]
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I am looking for a animter, are you intrested, i ahve writers and character artist, but i am in need of a animater?
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It depends what the project is. I'm pretty busy at the moment and animation is very expensive. What type of project is it? What type of animation are you after? What is your budget?
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well its shity animation think low quality hahaha. with great backrounds hahaha. and my budget is basicly th change in my pocket let me look.... 20 dollars, i ahve a script i have a backround rti i ahve character sketch artist. And i need you ahah. i mean i know, I understand if you say no, cant keep taking no money making jobs, but i prommise you take this job and i will make sure that there is money made and money for you. thanks and i hope to have you on the team.
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Sorry I don't do animation projects for free as it is such a ridiculous amount of work.
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yea dont worry haha i undertsnad i do a little in background animation using layers in adobe csss, But if yea ever need i would love to help out with a animation with you.
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Thank you! Nope, it's all 2D. Practically everything is drawn by hand, then coloured in Photoshop, then whacked into Flash, then into After Effects where I added lighting to the characters, and then finally put into Avid where my friend helped me edit it and add all the sound effects.
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"The creatures that run his inner mind aren't exactly happy with his presence, and the very problems he's come to sort out turn against him. He is flung up into the air, where numerous creatures/demons attack him and eventually kill. A nice happy ending."
They can't necessarily turn against him if they're what's causing his problem to begin with. Unless, you know, he secretly enjoys being insane, which is probably the case in this particular HotTopicHappyBunnyVasquezHertzfeldt bandwagon disasterpiece.
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Well it's not that normal to be walking around inside your own mind. That's why the creatures are attacking him, and he has no control over what they do. And what exactly does 'HotTopicHappyBunnyVasquezHertzfeldt' mean?
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The first one you pretty much missed entirely, but as for the second -- I assumed the word 'bandwagon' covered that one.
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We all have demons, but man those guys are nasty. Superb work, I'll definitely be keeping an eye on/paying homage to your work.
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superb ... u r realy a new styler cg . 
do u have in gfxarist.com any acount ?
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Thank you. No I haven't but I'm just setting one up now. Thanks for the link.
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Woah, talk about style!
And I love the villain at the bottom left. It's like a throwback to Day of the Tentacle!
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Thank you! I really love that game, it really persuaded me to make a career in Art as getting paid to make a game like that is my idea of a dream job. Might try and resurrect the adventure game genre when I'm older...
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Oh, please do. I only know of the LucasArts games from a friend that was lucky enough to get them in his elementary school years. There's an entire generation of gamers missing out on the adventure genre. We need new Monkey Island games to make kids think again!
I saw videos of an adventure game for the DS, which looked especially cool since it incorporated rotoscoping. I have high hopes.
…But until then, I'll have to get my artsy-fartsy adventuring needs calmed by the Silent Hill series, since that's all I really have.
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They were such amazing games, and Lucas Arts truly was the king of the genre. Did you ever play Sam and Max hit the road? That was a great game and they were going to make a sequel to it but for some reason the project got cancelled quite recently. They had designed all the characters in 3D and there was a trailer for the game, there was even a petition to keep the game going but it sadly failed. I'll have to look out for the adventure game on the DS.
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Aha! Just remembered: the title is "Hotel Dusk". Here 're the trailer:
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just watched the animation- ha what a trip, great stuff man!
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Wow, this is beautiful. The entire atmosphere is so depressing and ominous, exactly how I like it. I MUST watch the animation now.
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Hehehhe! I added you! I love ur animation! It's SO cool!
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interesting animation. Your style works realy well with the concept
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Man, I shit you not, this reminded me of Pink Floyd's animations... GREAT GR8 GREAT WORK!!!!
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Man, you have to say "thank you" a lot! But you deserve it. So how do you make an animation like that. I'm thinking of going into that direction myself.
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Well, basically I taught myslef how to do it when I was doing my Illustration degree. If you really want to get into it I recommend two things: 1) 'Animator's Survival Kit' by Richard Williams. Amazing book that will teach you most of what you need to know. 2) Make a lightbox. Do not go and buy one as they are a total rip off. I was looking around for them and they seem to cost around £100. Me and my Dad made one for £50 as all you need are bits of wood, some halogen lights and a sheet of perspex to go on top. Simple. Anyway, you also probably need an animation program. I use Flash but there are many others out there. I have no idea what they're like as I have only used Flash. And then just start messing about with random ideas.
With this animation practically everything was hand drawn and then whacked into Photoshop to be coloured, then Flash to be animated, then After Effects to be lit and effects added, then Avid to be edited and sound effects added. It was a hell of a lot of work and if I do another one soon I would really want to work with someone else on the animation. I hope this helps in some way.
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I knew it could work that way! But I bet you need alot of time and patience to do all that work.
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watched the movie...it was great 
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