GET INSPIRED - A SHORT FILM FOR ASSEMBLY'05 ---------------------------------------------- BY MANU JÄRVINEN "Get Inspired" is the first short film I've ever made. It was a huge step between illustration and animation for me. Even though the whole film is almost full of still images, I managed to get some life into it via 3D-animation and a couple of frame-by-frame animations made in Photoshop and sequenced in After Effects. (which was a hell lot of work, lemme tell you that :P The rest of the film relies on simply twisting, rotating and scaling of still images. For me, the main objective of this film was the fact that I made it entirely without anybody's help, all on my own. That way I learned so much about modeling, animation, composition, storyboarding, making and timing of audio and much much more. The title "Get Inspired" has actually nothing to do with the film itself. I just want to encourage the audience of the Assembly festival to make something they've never made before. The next film I'll make, would be based on 3D character animation I think. But we'll see. Some of the sounds of this film I just recorded with my microphone. The rest of the sound effects and some music samples were taken from the following sound effect collections and free Internet databases: - http://users.skynet.be/bassculture.org/samples.html - http://www.sampleswap.org/filebrowser-new.php?sid= ce21df4fd4b4a66258c1da2bb520dfa4 - http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/tagsView.php The fonts seen in the film were from: - Phillip G. Andrade: "Alien Marksman" - Tom Murphy 7: "Tom's Handwriting", "Tom's New Roman" I hope you enjoyed the film. I have HDTV1080p-version (1920x1080 pixels, every frame as a lossless PNG) of this film available for future purposes. Take care Y'all, and GET INSPIRED! Manu Järvinen www.maxon.rules.it