Raw Shots

Traveling shots

First 2 Shoots

A blue screened shot, that is composited on a background

Character Making Process

New pair of legs for Marshmallow

Face features

Spare legs

The new set with "cream color"

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Final Lighting

Animatic

On Locations

Character Making Process

 

"triped" denied

 

Adding eyes

 

Keeping balance

 

Huge eyes on our little Walter, even it's too big, looks fun though

 

Hanging up for balance? No...

 

They look standing up nicely, but we cannot even touch them...

 

Eventually, it works!

Shooting Test

Here is test with 8 frames per second

Here is the same images, rendered 12 frames per second

This is the " 8 fps " with a test composite and test audio!

(Marshmallow is not going to have this feather on his head, we were just trying to add some fun to our shooting test!)

Here are different feet we were trying on marshmallows,

exploring which is keeping the balance better

Behind the scene!

Here is a test-set that we made, and instead of TV screen we made a hole that lets light come in

That`s pretty much the lighting that we were trying to get for this shot.

Another video using a rough set to test:
- Lighting
- Zoom in / Zoom out
- composition

Schedule

Title : “Pink Polka Dot Cat”

Length:   2 ~ 2:30 min
This short, humorous, stop-motion animation has a semi-surreal basis. The characters and also the story are both based on exaggerated gags which are simple but unusual. The goal is making an experimental, creative funny animation.
Characters:
Marshmallow- a real, medium sized, white marshmallow with wire feet attached to it
Grasshopper- a real, dead grasshopper

Story:
The two friends, Marshmallow and Walter are sitting on a couch in their living room watching TV. The scene is dark and the only light is the TV light. They are watching a show about a ‘pink polka-dot cat’ that lives far far away. They get super excited to see such a strange cat and suddenly decide to travel all the way to see it. They jump off the couch, grab their backpacks and step on the way. They pass different places in the world, deserts, seas, different countries, days and nights pass until finally they get there. They are standing right in front of their dreamy ‘pink polka dot cat’. Marshmallow gets closer to the cat. It`s a moment of silence. Then he touches the cat slowly. As he touches, both Marshmallow and Walter burst laughing so loud and long. They laugh and laugh with a repeating funny way while the cat is looking at them with a ‘poker face’. Then they stop laughing and get back to their normal serious face. Walter turns to Marshmallow and says: “ok, let`s go back home”

Treatment

Title : “Pink Polka Dot Cat”

Length:   2:30~3min
This short, humorous, stop-motion animation has a semi-surreal basis. The characters and also the story are both based on exaggerated gags which are simple but unusual. The goal is making an experimental, creative funny animation.
Characters:
Marshmallow- a real, medium sized, white marshmallow with wire feet attached to it
Grasshopper- a real, dead grasshopper

Story:
The two friends, Marshmallow and Walter are sitting on a couch in their living room watching TV. The scene is dark and the only light is the TV light. They are watching a show about a ‘pink polka-dot cat’ that lives far far away. They get super excited to see such a strange cat and suddenly decide to travel all the way to see it. They jump off the couch, grab their backpacks and step on the way. They pass different places in the world, deserts, seas, different countries, days and nights pass until finally they get there. They are standing right in front of their dreamy ‘pink polka dot cat’. Marshmallow gets closer to the cat. It`s a moment of silence. Then he touches the cat slowly. As he touches, both Marshmallow and Walter burst laughing so loud and long. They laugh and laugh with a repeating funny way while the cat is looking at them with a ‘poker face’. Then they stop laughing and get back to their normal serious face. Walter turns to Marshmallow and says: “ok, let`s go back home”

Storyboard

"Marshmallow & Walter"

Two unusual characters:

one is a marshmallow who is called "Marshmallow"

one is a grasshopper (or maybe a cricket) who is called "Walter"

Walter, despite his tiny figure has a manly voice over with a British accent.

Marshmallow might be silent (we will decide about it later)

They will start a pretty long journey for a weird funny motivation,

they travel all over the world to reach their destination. After they got there, they seem happy for a few seconds, but it wont last long. In a funny way, they will express their dissatisfaction and decide to get back home.

Visual References

We are going for a simple living room set style. Minimum colors and simple shapes would help the focus of the frame to our characters.

This is a reference for face expression. We want the characters to look funny.

This is one of the possible approaches for the script. When the characters are having dialogues, we might use voice over or something similar to this, like attaching a paper to out character with the words on it!

or maybe one of the characters talks with a voice over, the other reply with the written paper!

This is how we want to make feet for "Marshmallow" character

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynf4ZIQZEDA

Here the way Peter laughs, which is TOO long, funny and annoying at the same time

is kind of similar to what we are trying to get for the ending shot, when the characters reach their

final destination and are happy.

Gulp. The world's largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8. from Nokia HD on Vimeo.