Hi everyone! A good chunk of our team met years ago at art school, a place that pretty much rams critque so hard down ya throat that you very quickly come to value it. We love to grow, yearrrrrn to grow, and super appreciate feedback. So please don't worry about curbing words, or shit sandwiching, or our feelings haha, we love hearing all your thoughts! Thanks in advance for watching and stopping by to leave us a review :D
This film was made in Moho Animation, which lets us import our drawn 2D assets and then rig them like a 3D model on 3D planes to then animate. Being able to rig our drawings like this goes a long way to being able to complete 5 minutes of animation in a weekend as a solo animator (still without sleep though haha), so if you're wanting to give animation a go or are a small team, I totally recommending checking this program out. It still allows for frame by frame animation, and version 12 often comes up in Humble Bundles.
Writing, rigging, animation, editing, backgrounds, additional illustration, and harrassing other artists in my community into a sleepless weekend by Che Crawford @TheImmortalThinkTank
Characters designed by Tamihana Greaves @StchdInk
Composition and Sound Fx/Foley by Matt Hennessey @Naircol (it's a great song, right? Please feel free to lavish him with praise. We've noticed lyric-less song composing sometimes gets overlooked).
The internal stop motion film "Cops and Robbers" was made by Moss (age 8). This is his first go at 48 hours, and he very independently made his props, story, photos, stopmotion, and then had a little help from Dad, Ford Saunders, to record and add sound.
We also have Evie (age 6) as acorn, and Dottie (age 7) as potato :)
We love humans, we love messiness, we love learning, and creativity. Being in 48 hours with all of you is a blast! In the age of LLMs spitting out ‘creations’ faster than humans ever could, we’d love for every creative to remember that not progressing in a competition doesn’t mean that what we made is 'bad’ or not worth it. Sometimes it means we're new, or learning, or excellent at some things and getting the hang of others. Sometimes we're freaking amazing in every way and make a good AF film and so did loads of others and it comes down to personal preference. Sometimes imperfection is perfect in its own way. What we have to say and make has value, it is appreciated, and we love seeing it. Please keep creating, it's the best part of being a human <3
