Making Of: The Nixie

Hi there! We're Zina and Linde, two animation students at AKV Sint Joost, an art academy in the Netherlands. Here we'll keep track of our progress of our graduation film. Our film is based on the legend of the Nixie, a water creature common in West-European folklore. While normally not evil, we're going for a more monstrous take on the Nixie. In the film, a sheperd, Aaron, goes on a journey to find his missing sheep. But little does he know everything is about to take a turn for the worst...

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Hey guys, big announcement, we graduated!!  Soon there will be a small teaser of our film, but currently we can’t upload the full thing due to some festival submissions. HOWEVER, if you like to support us, we’re selling little art books full with character designs for the film/process work and all that! We’re selling them for about 17 USD plus shipping (expect extra personal doodles with your shipment as a huge thank you!) If you’re interested please let us know, either contact our personal blogs or if you know us personally contact us that way. (Or just send it to this shared blog)

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Redoing some of our earlier animations.

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Poster design!

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Poster design is slowly getting there.

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Effects test! Added some layers of mist in After Effects, some blurs and general glow to the landscape to create more atmosphere.

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Even more water animations, fitting for our current rainy weather....

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Background animation

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Another magnet design!

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Some in progress work for one of our magnet designs we’ll be selling!

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Ophelia and Aaron button designs

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More music samples, this time the intro of the film.

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Water animation!

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Sample of some of our film’s soundtrack, made by our sounddesigners over at Runic Sounds! This gives an idea of what the soundtrack’ll be like during the battle scene.

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