I came across this the other day while leafing through some old backup discs I had lying around. Comfort!–my very first animated short film. I made this film as a final project for a winter film class my freshman year at RIT. I knew almost nothing about making animation–I animated every element as a separate layer on animation paper at a light table, shot all of my frames on an ACME crane, and composited everything together in photoshop. That’s right–photoshop…frame by frame into the wee hours.
The look of the film (which is something I still really like about it) is completely accidental and is the result of trying to make the white of the animation paper disappear and not really knowing what I was doing. It’s amazing how little I thought through the process; I remember sitting down at my computer, having just laboriously shot all 500 or so drawings and thinking, “Oh shit.”. I really didn’t have a clue.
I ended up staying awake for 3 days to finish and was such a huge sleep deprived asshole that sometimes my friends who were there will remind me of it. Sorry boys. Anyways, here she goes:
