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Movie Review: 'Traffik'

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[animatedaf]

Not long got back from a screening of my animation Traffk at the ‘E2PROM’ event in the mediashed, Southend. So how did it go?

Fan bloody tastic. Traffk was very well received, and they actually ended up playing a another one of my animations off of the showreel DVD I provided to them: Cheese Must Go Down (which also did well)! The pair of video game musicians Tom and Phil did covers of music from Sonic (Mystic Cave and Ice Cap), Tetris, Columns, Chrono Cross and Zelda. There was also some video DJ's, a bunch of arty films. The guys there appeared to be very impressed with Traffk, and are holding on to my showreel to possibly show more next time they do a screening!

[animatedaf]

Here's the 30ft inflatable that Traffk screened on last night. I wasn't sure what Mike meant when he said that, maybe a balloon of some sort, but what it turned out to be was this bouncy castle screen type thing which was rather neat. They started screening at around 8pm, which by now point it was so dark you couldn't see anything BUT the screen, and pretty cold too. Still, it's the biggest most unusual screen one of my animations has been screened on to date, even if it was such a short film compared to most of the other stuff they showed

The screen was on a field in Chalkwell Park and we were all sitting on deck chairs, of all things. It was definitely a different way of doing things. Traffk getting picked makes sense now as it featured footage and photos of Southend, and the general theme of a lot of the films showed was Southend, like archive footage of the sea front and Peter pan's Playground (now known as Adventure Island).

They also showed some neat animations like 'The Wrong Trainers', a collaboration made for Newsground about children in poverty, and Run Wrake's 'Rabbit', a personal; favorite of mine that I've seen screened at places like Norwich Festival a few times before and have yet to get bored of. I didn't hang around for the whole thing though, it was getting far too cold.

Oh, and I haven't got any photos of Traffk actually on the screen as I was filming it, although there wasn't really much point as it was...you know, really dark. I bumped into Tom, Phil and co, who I used to meet at a retro gaming event I use to go to monthly there who were filming the whole day of events, which was nice.

[animatedaf]

Traffk seems to be my most popular film for getting screened, it seems! The Leigh Film Society guys have nabbed the film once again for a free festival at Chalkwell Park in Leigh this Saturday. The festival is a all day event but the screening will be sometime between 8-10pm. here's the most interesting bit: the "screen" will be a projection onto a 30ft inflatable of some sort! If they can they may also try to screen another one of my films, possibly even Lucy lolly, which would be getting it's 2nd screening since it was shown at my collage. Traffk however will be getting it's 3rd (or 4th, can't remember) screening, blimey! Thanks go to Mark Lowther who's set this whole screening deal up. Can't wait to see my name up in lights, or rather...on a giant balloon!

[animatedaf]

So there it is, at long ruddy last!

Possibly my most ambitious animated short to date, using a mix of photography, live-action, hand-drawn 2D animation, flash, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop and a printer. I did use After effects for a bit of it, but it ended up screwing up a lot of the sync so I fixed it all back up and used premiere Pro instead.

The story is of a green traffic light man who escapes from his post, and tries to leg it. He gets chased by three red traffic light men and...well, you'll see what happens. It's a pretty simple story, but wasn't simple to produce. The backgrounds were filmed and photographed (location, just outside of my house, just like with 'Jehjeh') then printed, six frames a page, and scribbled over the back against my Kitchen window (I don't have a lightbox). These scribbles were then all scanned back in, and pasted over the top of the video frames with photoshop and a bunch of .flm files.

The characters' keyframes were drawn on paper, then scanned in, made into animated GIFs (see some of them at my blog) and imported into flash, where with the final edited background footage underneath I traced them out. Once all the key frames were traced, the pencil animations were ditched and I drew all the inbetween frames in flash, frame-by-frame (with some tweening such as the cars, and some pan sorts.). Then after all that, these were imported into a big GIF, pasted over the full quality footage, made into .flm files again and this time, the characters were given their glow, done in photoshop (rather complex to figure out how I was going to do it, but once I knew how to do it, it was just a case of clicking a few buttons.)

In total, the film probably took about 2 1/2 months to produce. It seems so short when I watch it back. Oh, and the music is by Aphex Twin, which I edited down from the full 6 minute track.

[animatedaf]

Traffk is almost ready! I'm into the final stages of making this animation, which is around 85% complete and should hopefully be ready to release any day now. I spent days working on colouring in every frame, which was not only taking forever but didn't exactly look very good, until I decided to try something else using the layer styles in Photoshop, which not only looks 10 tens better, but can be done in a couple of clicks. Here are some screenshots of the almost finished film. Watch this space, it's on it's way!