Final Artist Statement #3

So I said in the beginning that I had an idea for a while to make a movie where my roommate Christian’s cat talked to me in some type of dream state or whatever. So here it is. I decided that I wanted to die and talk to Ivy in the afterlife. I thought it was a good way to convey that story of talking to a cat and I didn’t want to do something like where it was all just a dream because I’ve done that in the past and it is kind of overdone at this point in my major so I just decided to go the dark comedy route and just straight up have me die. So I guess you can say that the character did go through a transformation. He died. And it also ends with his face getting eaten by the same cat that was guiding him through the afterlife. I just thought it would be funny since this has been known to happen in real life. Where people will die in their homes and the pets would starve to the point of eating their owners. So I mean there is some realism in this movie. The animation took a while. Getting the background and effects just right was hard because I wanted it to look good and ethereal but it was much more of a lengthy process than I thought. And I wanted to do sprite based animation because I feel like if i did puppet animation, it would look way to weird for my story and be too distracting. So sprites just made more sense. Still took a long time and a lot of cutting out in photoshop. I like how it came out in the end and I’m happy with what I created.