Bumper Challenge
Our admin team created a 15 sec animated short from a custom list of prompts we thought would be relevant to any creative. The original audio and list were shared with our community and they were encouraged to create their own!
Animation is very time consuming and a labor of love, so it’s understandable that few were up to the task but one of our community members rose to the challenge!
Sit Up! , Shrimp
Created by DreamDust Admin
Get Some Rest
Created by Hachikoek
The Making Of: ‘Sit Up! , Shrimp’
Teamwork makes the dream work
Our admin team sat down together to create the prompts, choose the theme, and write the script. The team currently consists of six people, each member was assigned different stages of the animation pipeline.
Prompt List:
- Sit Up, You’re not a Shrimp
- Remember to save!
- Stop working, it’s 6 am.
- Stop undervaluing yourself. Charge what you’re worth
- Draw what you love. It’s ok if you don’t reinvent the wheel.
- You don’t have to make your passion your career. You can get a boring job to fund your passion on the weekends.
- You’re on the wrong layer again,
- Back up your files. Murphy’s about to strike.
- Go play.
- Go to sleep. Your value is not based on your productivity.
- Guh put on deodorant. Yuh stink
- Shut down your computer. It needs a break too.
- ‘Jus’ haffi believe seh yuh great and mek it happen’.
The Dream Team
Jenille Brown
Kymani Gayle
Nathanael Hay
Joelle McFarlane
Adam Wanliss
Danielle Parchment
Jenille Brown
Danielle Parchment
Kymani Gayle
Joelle McFarlane
Adam Wanliss
Nathanael Hay
Pre-Production
Character Design
Created by Danielle Parchment
Storyboard
Created by Adam Wanliss
The storyboard artist uses the script to create a sequence of illustrations to pre-visualizing the motion of the animation.
Sound Design | Background Design
Created by Kymani Gayle
DreamDust "Shrimp" Bumper Audio
Production & Post Processing
Panels from the storyboard are placed in succession at the correct timing, along with sound, to form the Animatic. This is the preliminary version of the final animation. The most important poses of the animation sequence, that define the start and end point of an action, are referred to as keyframes. After the keyframes are done the can be handed of to another animator to draw the “in-between” frames.
Animatic | Key Animation
Created by Jenille Brown
In-Betweening | Clean-Up + Colour | Effects
Created by Nathanael Hay
Post Processing
Created by Joelle McFarlane
This is where everything is tied together and the final touches are made. Compositing, Colour Correction, the addition of sound and visual effects, etc.
