Stress [My Senior Animation Thesis]

[AC Slater]

Hey guys, long time no see. Thought I'd share something with just you guys and only you since you were my first animation family. Here's my senior thesis I completed a few months ago. It won't be up here for long, so watch it while you can. I'm currently waiting to get word back from the Ottawa Animation Film Festival (as well as a few others) on whether or not it's been accepted for this year's screening. You should really watch this with headphones or really good speakers. There are a lot of frequencies that are very low and very high that won't get picked up on bad computer speakers.

There was no video used in the film. All of the movement you see was animated (painfully) by me. All of the sound design was done by myself as well. They were all recorded around the city and other places including my old apartment. The X-rays were actual film x-rays that were shot underneath of the ice image. So there was no layering trickery or any of that going on. I wanted to keep 90% of the film's movement all within camera and without the assistance of extra programs. Overall time spent on this was about 3-4 months of full on animation and editing.

This is also the very first cut of the film, and not the one that I currently have as the "finished" product.

[Craisin]

I am not trying to down your production, you had me for around 30 seconds. Then it was the same. And the same. And the same. If there was a message I missed it.

[RobClock]

Visually impressive if not altogether stimulating. The audio was crisp and the cracking/breaking sounds had me cringing at least once. Good stuff overall.

Nice to see you're still doin' stuff, ZM.

[AC Slater]

I should note, this is a very abstract film done as sort of an homage to the work of Viking Eggeling and early Oskar Fischinger.

[TropicanaClock]

I should note, this is a very abstract film done as sort of an homage to the work of Viking Eggeling and early Oskar Fischinger.

This is a trip for sure.

I like it, and appreciate the effort that went into producing it.

[miracle fruit]

i got stressed out from watching this

[pop-tart]

if u luvd us 4 rel

[Lump Clock]

This was super awesome. Thanks for sharing!

[clamclock]

Ottawa

i see what youre trying to do there. sorry we cant hang out irl

[AC Slater]

i see what youre trying to do there. sorry we cant hang out irl

I'm coming for you bb.

And {{{everyone}}}