My old college chum Matt Cruickshank found his graduation film on Vimeo and mine is up there too. The 5000 Brains of Docter X was initially a 1st year group project between James Finlay, Mike Rooker, Dan Harrod & myself. In the 2nd year I developed it further with Darran Woods-we fleshed out the premise but it was too ambitious & we cut the whole thing down, animating just our favourite scenes. Max Tyrie came in near the end to help us out with the CG & compositing. We animated our favourite scenes & strung them together in a spoof trailer format, the music is of course by Danny Elfman from the Mars Attacks! soundtrack (copyright Warner Bros. Music).
I dug out some of the production artwork I made for the film. We were influenced back then by Ren & Stimpy of course, Mars Attacks! and B-movies from the 50s, Luc Besson's The Fifth Element, Chuck Jones' cartoons and Leni Riefenstahl!
Darran built & animated all the CG elements & I did the 2-D animation. I remember pulling many all nighters putting this together but we had a blast making it.
This looks like it would have been so much fun to animate and the boards look great! You should just do a graphic novel, I bet it would be the bees knees :)
Ahhh lots of late nights and part time living at your house,,also the mice,,remember them?It was fun working on it,think I still have all drawn art I did somewhere will have to find it.Would be interesting to finish a final short.
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Very nice. Very comic.
So are you ever going to release this masterpiece? Or is it forever going to be a trailer?...plus I only counted 4997 brains.
This looks like it would have been so much fun to animate and the boards look great! You should just do a graphic novel, I bet it would be the bees knees :)
what a treat!
Classic, loved seeing this again :)
Love it!
P.W.
I love it!:o)
That's funny! I'm in London and you in Barcelona!
I love your city is so wonderful!
Thanks for the comments everyone ;)
Ahh brings back memories
Ahhh lots of late nights and part time living at your house,,also the mice,,remember them?It was fun working on it,think I still have all drawn art I did somewhere will have to find it.Would be interesting to finish a final short.
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