I am 20, from Oxford, England. I started writing this film when I was 16 on holiday in the Cevenne hills in France in the summer of 2001. By the end of 2001 I had finished the storyboard and started working on the computer stuff. I was still in school so I worked on it in my spare time now and again for about a year until early 2003. In June 2003 I left for California to study animation at the Art Institute of California in San Francisco where I studied for a year (but did no work on this project). Since I’ve been back from California I have picked up where I left off a year earlier and finally finished this film. I am pretty pleased with the results, I think the character animation is one of the shortfalls, I could have spent a little longer animating weight and balance, etc.
David Collier who was at Cre8 in Swindon gave me some valuable scriptwriting help. My friend Ben Campbell helped me out with some grading tips and also lent me the use of his PC for rendering. My friend Allie Goldacre did the great work with the music. A big thankyou to Maxon for their sponsorship. Apart from that I would like to thank the people of the Cinema4D postforum, I rarely posted because the answers I needed were almost always in the archives.
I have made 2 other animated films in the past: Foam when I was 12 and Cat’s Night Out when I was 15. Both were stop motion animations using plasticene and are available to view on this website.
For the techie people out there, here is my setup:
I work on a laptop computer with an external monitor attached.
The laptop is a Sager 4080:
Pentium 4 2.6ghz
Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo 128mb
512 mb Ram
40 gb HD
15” LCD screen.
For the rendering I built a barebones computer for around 250 pounds which is:
Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz
512mb Ram
80 gb HD
The total cost of production was around £200 give or take. I sold my rendering machine on eBay once I had finished the film..