Stop Motion Animation

[lgongtsyn]

Director's statement
This teaser animation is created for my client for a potential 5 - 6 minutes short animation. The potential animation was going to be included in the toy's website.

I've decided to go for a hyper-realistic style. The potential goal for this animation was to inspire the target audience and to project the idea that all the toys are alive.(target audience: preschool kids).

The project is a combination of traditional stop-motion animation and animated stills. Both elements are then composited onto a 2d background. Colour grading techniques are used to blend all the plates seamlessly. (e.g. adding of interactive shadows, lens flares, additional lights and camera movement - see compositing breakdown)

Status:
The project is now delivered and I am now awaiting for further budget decisions from my client.

The final edit is now available online:
youTUBE:
Teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzz1wmkqzrU
Compositing breakdown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mILyqh2TQU

or

sendSPACE - for download:
(optimized for quicktime 7 H.264 compressor)

teaser:
(LARGE 31mB): http://www.sendspace.com/file/3sxrfu
(MEDIUM): http://www.sendspace.com/file/0v2mxf
(SMALL 15mB): http://www.sendspace.com/file/gn1emf

compositing breakdown:
(LARGE 87mB): http://www.sendspace.com/file/kfuper
(SMALL 36mB): http://www.sendspace.com/file/kftqnx

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cheers
Thomas