****HD 1080 and 3D****
The Underground Society of Animators (USA)
2013 USA Award for Excellence in Animation
The original story is Alice in Wonderland with a small reference to The Wizard of Oz. The changes that were made to it is that "Alice" is changed into a penguin. The "Wonderland" is changed into a world that has been taken over by dragons. The reference to The Wizard of Oz is at the end when the penguin realizes that she was dreaming about the people that she is with in the forest.
The story begins with a penguin walking through a forest and runs into a man with a hat. He offers her hot chocolate and some marshmallows, red and blue, which is foreshadowing the colors of the dragons that appear later. She accepts the drink and starts to dream. In her dream she meets a man. He asks her how she got there and then explains how he got there, which is the same way the she got there. She sees the man in the hat while walking through the market with the man that she just met. The man then states that the city that they are in is a good place to be but there is a problem, dragons have taken over the world. A red dragon then crashes through a window that is one of the only ways in and out of the underground complex that they are in. The dragon is red because she had chosen the blue marshmallow over the red. The dragon takes the penguin and leaves because she is waking up. The twist is, that after she wakes up, the man in the hat is playing with dragons over her head. The dream that she was having was really just the man playing with the dragon dolls. She then sees that the man that she was with in her dream was laying against a tree in the forest that she is in.
Software used:
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Mudbox, Autodesk Composite, Audacity, SpeedTree 5.0 Modeler, Windows Movie Maker
