Robot

2004. Written, Directed & Animated by Jessica Plummer
Running time - 2:20 sec.

I had made Robot for my first animation course at Pratt. What really astonished me was that I had a week to complete the project and I actually pulled off all that work. Mind you, I only added the titles on later, and have recently spent a good few days trying to color-correct the old footage (which is a lesson for me and all of you: take better care of your projects! Don't get lazy like I did and abuse the heck out of an old VHS tape). I managed to clean up the old video quite a bit but there's still a little bit of a flutter. Though any more tweaking and I'm afraid I'd ruin it.

All the animation is cut-outs and props on background layers, animated under the camera. I even constructed a shoddy-type multiplane stage for animating layers, made out of plexiglass. Worked really well actually. I made three different versions of the robot character, one looking left and one right, and one from behind, all out of bristol board and twist-tie (for the fingers and neck), with the joints pieced together by thread. That gives a pretty good impression how small he was (I was animating the eyes with tweezers!).

Music is by the talented Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com.

All work is Copyright 2006 Jessica Plummer, All Rights Reserved.

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