Little Green Man - 3D animated short film

Made in Autodesk Maya 2008, composited in Adobe After Effects CS3 and edited in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3.

My first CG film, and first experience of CGI in general, so please excuse the awkward animation, and visuals.
The story follows Jeff, a small disproportional alien whose job is to control the weather on earth, but unfortunately struggles to find it entertaining enough to stay awake, leading to a very messy situation...

The film was for a final major project at university, I had 4 months to come up with the idea and how it would look, and 4 months to make it. I tried to stick to a simple idea that could still be entertaining, and which wouldn't be too hard to make. Unfortunately it got to the point where I needed to learn how to use 3D software or draw it, so I set about learning Maya at the end of January. The basic knowledge came from a book, whilst the rest I discovered for myself.

Music and sounds;

Track title: Button Sounds, Set 5: Servo
Composer: Shockwave-Sound.com

Track title: Plumpton
Composer: Bob and Barn

Track title: Scifi Production Elements, set 1
Composer: Shockwave-Sound.com
Publisher: Lynne Publishing

Track title: Space & Scifi Sounds set 4
Composer: Bjorn Lynne
Publisher: Bjorn Lynne

Track title: Airborne Sound 01C: Variety Pack C
Composer: Airborne Sound Library

Film by Stuart Hanson

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 3D
• CGI
• animation
• short
• film
• video
• alien
• little
• green
• man
• space
• spaceship
• earth
• laser
• weather
• art
• experimental
• funny
• comedy
• cute
• maya
• after
• effects
• photoshop
• autodesk
• adobe
• lincoln
• university

[r6srider]

Well, that explains Ohios weather.

[busdriverjow]

love the facial expressions and emotions, lol. and the satelite.

[underground4themass]

Nice! wish you were in the US I need an animator to help me finish my short ive had on the table awhile.

[LilNoobRidingHood]

It's fun and entertaining to watch...very well done. I'm on way in becoming a 3D modeler and as well as animator just like you guys. :)

[ThePokemonfan365]

@sh2ta - Considering you were a "novice" at the time you made this, it's pretty good.

[TheGennaios]

how did you make the sounds?

[MrAnimationGuy1000]

0:40 stop writing chinise

[MrAnimationGuy1000]

that aint 3 dimentional

[MrWiperblade]

That was realy good, I think you should work for Pixar or something.

[PureFunk13]

haha someone's havin a bad day.

[MISSHAILEY954LOVER]

cool :) i love....... little green dudes lol