Do it in Ten - Dark

Show me the animation is a website that has a monthly competition to create a ten second animation of a theme set for that month. For the month of February the theme was dark, so myself and my class mate decided to enter as we currently at the time only had drawing tasks and no animating tasks. We also wanted to try and compete in a competition for practice and possible show reel animation.

The animation we created was a three scene animation of the grim reaper and the devil playing chess with those who passed away as the chess pieces.

We worked together on designing the characters and the storyboard, then my friend worked on backgrounds and scenery, along with the lighting, while i worked on the animating of the characters and fire. Shading of the characters was shared between the two of us, majority of it was done buy my partner while i shaded the hand in the final scene. I collected the royalty free sound and we rendered each scene independently in after effects then rendered it in one piece with the sound on premier.

This was when i first experienced my 5 hour fruitless wait for rendering to finish, it was stressful to say the least.