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A short film adaptation of Greg Foley's Thank You Bear, a children picture book, age 2 and up.
Summary:
Despite the criticism of others, a bear finds the perfect gift for his mouse friend.
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Enjoy.
*Still working the kinks on the subtitle. Any comments in regards to the subtitle maybe deemed invalid in the future when it is fixed.
Last edited by Lechnology (December 28, 2008 (01:01am))
Some notes and responses I didn't get to post on the refugee forum:
This took maybe about a month to do, starting with the bear design. Body had to be reworked twice and the leg's solidity had to be compromised to allow the bear to bend down and sit.
Because I had a deadline, a brick'd-tree wasn't built. Instead, I generated a tree with Carrara. It does not look like the tree in the book, but you got have some freedom of creativity here.
The Elephant is actually 1.5 scale compared to the Bear. I rushed the design without comparing it to the Bear for scale and when it came time to animate, it did not fill the screen as it did in the book so I had to scale it up. No one seems to have caught that.
The mouse was also scaled, down to .75, in the second shot. The first shot, it was to scale, but, again, rushing I failed to compare its dimension with the box and the Bear.
I studied fox and squirrel movements on Youtube to mimic their motions. Apparently, fox tails don't raise up as Disney cartoons had led me to believe.
Brickshelf and Flickr played a major part in my animal design research. The only animal that didn't have extensive research was the fox since I could find little in fox models.
The mouse is a nearly exact replica of this:
Most of these design could not have been made had I not updated my MLCAD partslist (for those MLCAD users who don't know, although the official library hasn't been updated for so long, the unofficial library is constantly being updated)
As I told you on facebook, a wonderfully done little film. I loved some of the little touches like how the audio will trail off into the left speaker when characters exit screen left. The animation seemed great, and the white expanse look fit the story very well. The models were all fantastic, and I really have nothing bad to say about the film. Well done!
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