Well! Here's the longest Stopmotion video I've ever done. It took two years to do Dasos (with a full time job) and only a month to do this. I made Anerin breath, and honestly, I think it looks great!!! I animated snow falling out the window, which was completely a last second decision. It looks okay. It's quaint and kind of charming. With more time, I definitely could have come up with a better system for it. The camera movement is good, but when it turns to keep Anerin in the center, it gets all jumpy. I hate the hand movements for her when she's checking out her claws, but I needed filler gags for the 2:30 minute long speech Santa gives. All her eye rolls are great! I'm happy-ish with the growling. I didn't realize the christmas tree was going to be dead center behind her the whole time. It's great for framing her in the lighting, but the tree is so pretty! I guess it has to be this way since the lights on the tree are way too bright for the scene.
Next year I'd like all the shorts to be one continuous story. I want to start off with her assistant in the city before they've met. That would be fun. Not sure how many videos I'll be able to do. If I never get a job again, I can do 7 or 8 more two minute long videos. I'm working all of January and there's talk of me doing a minute long stop motion commercial for one of my friends maybe around late Feb or March. If I do get a job I might just go back to little experiments or maybe two 5 minute long animations for all of 2021. Who knows!!
