Three Misfits (2008 animation)

I'm not sure why this video was never uploaded. This was my first brush with hand drawn animation (other than those isolated frames I previously uploaded) and the beginning of disliking the process, back in art college! I don't think it's particularly good, looking back now, but I wanted to upload it anyway for documentation purposes.

Remembering back to art college... we were asked to pick out a painting from a gallery, make a sketch of it and ultimately make an animation from it. I chose this one because the three people in the painting looked like they had a story. So, I invented those stories, made my own personas for these people and animated them having some sort of wine-aided discussion, over a game of cards.

As it was my first attempt at hand drawn animation... I think I got to about 22 frames. I didn't have the experience to know to story board it, or to split it into separate scenes. I tried to make everything happen in the same scene at once (!) and so to make the whole thing slightly nearer to the 1 minute mark, I did some horrible editing and splicing elements together. I had no software at the time, so did some awkward editing with Windows Movie Maker. It's somewhat laughable now, but I zoomed in to the "top left" or "bottom right" of the frame to somewhat make that section a scene.

I re-used footage I don't know HOW many times, and spliced together parts of a reading from a German poem named "Das gemeinsame Schicksal" ("The shared fate") by Friedrich Schiller(1759 - 1805). I'm aware that the way I've edited it together probably doesn't quite make sense in German, I just wanted to create a seemingly thoughtful monologue in a language I'm unfamiliar with.

Original text of poem:
" Siehe, wir hassen, wir streiten, es trennet uns Neigung und Meinung, aber es bleichet indes dir sich die Locke wie mir."

Translation : "Look, we hate, we argue, our affectations and opinions drive a wedge between us. In the meantime your hair turns grey. Mine as well."

Original audio taken from freesound.org, and can be found here, thank you very much to NilsB, the reader and uploader: http://www.freesound.org/people/NilsB/sounds/22369/

I think, despite it being my first attempt at the medium, this was the beginning of the end, for me. I love how hand drawn animation looks, but I am too impatient.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animation
• hand drawn
• friedrich schiller
• das gemeinsame schicksal

[VixiVampiress]

@TantrumJas Thanks ^^ really not my best work, but wanted to keep a record of it and upload it anyway :) x

[TantrumJas]

Nice work! I really like it. And thanks for the description which really helps!

Jasmine ^_^