I loved it. It looked great, and I liked the story. I thought the desaturated look, animation, and narration made for a subtle expressionistic feel. The animation was at least equal to hollywood's 'Flyboys,' I thought. While I'm obviously biased, I'm pretty sure I'd really like this short even if I didn't know the creators.
I'm looking forward to asking Rob how they integrated some of those live action scenes with animation. Green screens? Did they use soundstages? At the LDS MPS? Cool stuff.
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I really liked the short, too. I liked the plodding (warlike) pace, and I thought the animation was excellent.
Still, I think the best short to ever come out of the BYU film department is "Leon."
I liked the pacing as well. You make a great point about "Leon." What a great show.
"Huh - All these stations and no one's playing Creed"
Hey! How are you. This is Rob. I'm glad you enjoyed the film. As for making of questions I could talk forever about that. But as a start, everything was CG except for the pilot/people and one sequence where you see the feet running up the stairs was shot live action on a location, due to the difficulty of using green screen stairs. We also filmed the scarfs life action separately from the pilot using a green screen and composited them in. Again, there is an exception where in one shot the scarf was created digitally. The life action was filmed at a local green screen studio in Provo and subsequent reshoots were filmed at the BYU HFAC KBYU soundstage. The blending of animation and life action proved quite difficult for one main reason, none of us really knew how to do it going into the project. It was a lot of fun to make. To illustrate how challenging the film was, we had more visual effects shots then many visual effects heavy feature films. This wouldn't have been possible without what I learned in Chris Blaksleys Intro to Learn class. He taught me EVERYTHING I know.
I thought the short was great. It was neat how you couldn't tell which was animation and which was not. Very impressive.
Thanks for the post rob!! I noticed the scarf looking cool throughout the movie, and am suprised that it was mostly shot separately. My guess would have been that it was all digital. The movie really looks amazing - its awesome that you made it without knowing "how to do it." I can't wait to see you make something you know how to do:)
How was your sundance experience? Did any prospects for future projects come from it?
And what software did you use for the movie? And did you film the live action stuff on 16mm or 35mm? It looked really good, man!
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