Wow! Thank you! I'm glad to hear it! I do really prefer actual camera movement (even though it's a bit of a pain to animate), but I also find that complementing the real camera movement with a digital one is sometimes even better. Especially if it's two separate types of movements. So a real pan with the camera can be combined with a slight digital push in, sort of like what I'm going for with this one! Makes it easier to animate as well if you just focus on one movement

Thanks! And yeah, I'm a bit surprised my self. I'm animating more now per day than I think I've ever done before!

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Update time! I've finished shooting all the scenes in the kitchen (except for the climax, but I'll shoot that last as I mentioned). I've now moved on to the scenes in the lounge, and I've come about halfways through them. I've now shot almost 75% of all the shots, I'm just a couple of shots short. This also means that I only have about 15 shots left before I start shooting the climax

The lights are out for most of the film to get that spoooooky feeling, but two scenes are shot with the lights on (both of them set in the lounge), so I changed my lighting set up a bit to get that juicy look of several lights reflecting in the windows etc. I only used a cheap light strand for this (I think it's just from IKEA, but it works great!).

Some shots (without re-framing) with the lights on:

And another shot from the past week in darkness for comparison:

I've also just started editing, and I'd say I have a reaaaaally rough cut of like half the film. I do this mostly to get a feel for the flow, and to see if I need to do any pick ups or reshoots. So far, I've added two more shots to the shot list. One shot needs to be re done completely, and another one needs to be added to cover up some flaws in another shot. I'm editing with Da vinci resolve, which I've never used before, but oh my I LOVE IT! Super easy to use, very professional, and completely free, which is insane.

So coming up, I'll finish the last 15 shots and then move on to shooting the climax.

Cheers!

The set looks absolutely incredible! This'll be fun to watch one it comes out

  Watch it on YouTube!

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Thank you! I did spend quite a while building the set. I figured since the entire film takes place in the same location I should but some effort into making sure it looks nice!

Haha yeah, well hopefully the end product can deliver =P

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Update time! I'm still shooting the climax of the film, but things are also still moving along quite smoothly, so half the climax has already been shot. This means that roughly 90% of the film is shot, depending on how you count. So if all goes according to plan, I'll be completely done with the shooting by next update.

I will show you some frames as usual, but I don't want to spoil anything, like I mentioned in the previous post. So I'll just give you this one frame for now, to keep the mystery going =P

Cheers!

can't wait!

is that stuffing you used for the clouds?

Hey this is my first time seeing this thread (yeah I know I’m a zoomer lol), but wow this is an impressive effort.
Consider me interested.

Update time!

One of the two solo instruments have been recorded for the soundtrack, and I'll record the other one later this week. Then I'll finish the final mix and master for the soundtrack, which shouldn't take too much time. Most of the heavy lifting has already been done.

I've also just started recording some of the foley for the film. Seeing as sound plays such a huge factor in horror movies, I've opted to do some quite extensive foley-work. So I'll be recording footsteps, clothes, breathing etc whilst playing the rough cut of the film on a laptop and then time the sounds to the movements onscreen (so yeah, basically like regular foley, just slightly more low budget =P). So in a way I'm almost treating the film as a live action one during this project, and recording a lot of sounds that would usually only make sense if it wasn't animated (like the sounds of the clothes for instance). My hope is that it'll make it more immersive, and possibly scarier if I do it correctly. Luckily I'm also getting the generous help of BiMs very own JonnDthunDer, who'll act as sort of a "Sound and Music Supervisor" and listen through all the sound mixing and give me feedback!

Don't really have any exciting pictures for you, just this one of my humble low budget foley setup.

So coming up, I'll keep recording some foley as well as the last solo instrument. I've started working on some short teaser/trailer as well, so hopefully that'll be done in a week or two!

Cheers!

I use a program called cubase for all the recording, mixing and mastering. All of the orchestral stuff is completely digital, so I record all the parts as midi. Cubase doesn’t really have any good digital instruments though, so I use a combination of the sound libraries from East West Studios and Orchestral Essentials. So the sound libraries basically just contain the digital instruments, and then I use Cubase for the recording.

For the horror-stuff I mostly layer different sound effects and audio files, sometimes altering them a bit first (like pitching them down, slow them down, etc). The two solo instruments (solo vocals and nyckelharpa) will be recorded for real, so won’t use a sound library for those.

Hopefully that answers your question!

Cool! I want to start making my own music so this will help!