How to make an animated movie

How to produce an animated short without a concept.

Sven Hauth and Holger Schönmann were itching to create an animated short film but just weren't able to come up with a fitting script. Their cries for help in the various forums didn't help, either.

Their solution: Create a film based on the fact that no idea existed for a film. Their story revolves around a character who simply can't think of a storyline for his animated short. Within just a few days Sven and Holger had written a script and started drawing the storyboard and designing the character and set.

Finding someone to synchronize the script turned out to be more difficult than expected. Due to budget restraints, they first tried to find the right speaker among their English-speaking friends but soon realized that this was indeed a job only a professional speaker could master. In the end, the Cologne-based professional speaker Frank Becker was hired for the job.

Thanks to CINEMA 4D's ease of use, modeling and animation was a breeze. Pretty much every available CINEMA 4D module was used, from MoGraph to Sketch and Toon to HAIR, proving once again that MAXON products offer high-level performance coupled with an optimized workflow. It would otherwise not have been possible for a 2-person crew to produce this excellent animated short within such a short time.

"Since we are experienced CINEMA 4D users we didn't expect any notable problems in creating this project. Nevertheless, each time a project is completed we are taken by the fact that we never have to worry about stability, performance or other critical issues when working with MAXON software", says Holger Schönmann.

The background music was composed by Ralf Uhl, who also created the sound effects.

Idee, Design, Rigging, Animation: Sven Hauth, www.pixeldoggy.com
Modeling, Licht, Rendering: Holger Schömann
SoundFX, Musik: Ralf Uhl
Sprecher: Frank Becker, www.beckersmundwerk.de

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