Honors Program
University Honors
Date of Award
5-2020
Thesis Professor(s)
Marty Fitzgerald
Thesis Professor Department
Engineering Technology, Surveying, and Digital Media
Thesis Reader(s)
Greg Marlow
Abstract
This creative thesis involved making an animated short film from scratch, dubbed “Laundry Day” for the time being. The film follows two sentient clothing characters, a hoodie and a pair of pants, who need to get out of their owner’s room to get to the laundry room after accidentally being left behind. Please watch the short here and use the password “goodiehoodie”:
This was a time consuming, challenging, and multifaceted project, but provided an accurate glimpse into how feature animation is made. The process of making any project like this is commonly called a pipeline, and can be simplified to seven categories: Story, Character, Environment, Animation, Effects, and Rendering. This paper will go into each of these and explain the technical and creative challenges I had to overcome to reach the final product.
Publisher
East Tennessee State University
Document Type
Honors Thesis - Open Access
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Kochan, Elizaveta, "Creating a Short Animated Film with Cloth Characters" (2020). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 526. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/526
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.