What's The Hold Up (2019)
Rookies 2020 | Animated Short Film | Finalist
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Louis Ng, Teo Chia Kai, Samuel Patterson P IV, Lilin Cattleya B, Melani Thenedy, Jun Xian, Jarrel Chew
Behind The Scenes
This was honestly one of the most stressful and fun projects I've worked on! I was accepted into the special digital film program at my school, 3dsense Media School, where we had 6 months to make a short film. At first we were thinking about making a 3d film but with a team of 2d artists, it was a bit.. difficult, so we decided to use our strengths and make a 2d film instead! We all came up with story ideas and mine was voted in the end, because it was just so relatable, even if you're not a little girl, you've probably had a moment where you were holding for someone else in line with no money and nowhere to go!
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Now that the idea is settled, lets get to work! We blocked in the animation in Maya and once we had the character design down (I designed the mom and was also the voice of the little girl!), I was mainly in charge of making clean lines from block in sketches, and adding in-betweens to make the animation smoother!
At the beginning, even though we had the core idea, we wanted the audience to really feel the stress, with this big guy behind her, or the crowd yelling, and that drove the rest of the character design!
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At the end of the day, we really wanted to make people laugh with our silly film, and I am really proud of how it turned out! I had an awesome time and I learned so much. Thank you again to the team <3 - Mel
