Making of | "God's Leash"

hello my name is David and on February 17th 2018 I released my animated short film God's leash the short was a long time coming and this behind-the-scenes video will look into my creative process the story the art the themes everything [Music] I started work on the shore immediately after coming home from watching Blade Runner 20 49 in the cinema I love that film it's up there with some of my favorites I was so inspired I started drawing and writing for my own cyberpunk animation that was in October I was still working on new monsters and had no time to start a new short film but that didn't stop me from drawing and writing I knew the shot was gonna be sci-fi so I got to work drawing anything that would come to mind a lot of my early drawings included this character I called her edgy Sombra who eventually became Sally some of my other drawings including full-on rubles this was before I had any idea where the short was really going to be about seeing his robot starting to thank him the finished animation it wasn't until I drew this a variation on edgy Sombra but the pet dinosaur where my ideas really started to come more streamlined going back to the original edgy Sombra this gibberish on our cool is what Google Translate told me the word control looks like in Japanese I know control is gonna be a central theme to this shark even from the beginning I drew a lot of inspiration from other older drawings of mine too like this fine liner sketch this drawing was actually concept artwork for my dystopian series but far better effects this universe the corporation / conglomerate don't think was completely carried over to before rating I really wanted to start with a theme I could relate to a point too old this was easy comfort comfort and control I decided to Sentra the short around the nature of control control being free and the numbness of being overly comfortable in a controlled environment initially I planned this short to take place in a utopian world taking a complete departure from my dystopian Shores where everyone is happy everyone has their place there is no disease we control everything everyone's safe we live long lives only to play on the idea of how numb being that comfortable would be that some people wouldn't want to just let the warm and complacent we need ups and downs you have to struggle through bad times for the good times to mean anything the comforts of safety and who boring all of that is some of that was dropped but a lot of it did survive eventually I drew this and at that point all my disconnected ideas really started to form together I wrote a broad outline for the story they were split up into four parts jogging through the havens walking through the streets I talked with the cheese and fighting in the havens reading through this it's nearly exactly the same as the final product it's honestly came to striking how little the story changed over them four to five months I was working on this Shore I even made a little notes of the narration it's almost the exact same the story is of a woman named Sally she has a pet Deinonychus a small theropod dinosaur implanted with a chip to make it do sale she lives in a futuristic society obsessed with control the human race has become obsessed with / varying nature and overcoming God with technology the world is comfortable controlled and safe so much in fact the Sally dreams of escaping in she's become numb and longs for a life where she can earn her rate to survive and not just live for the sake of loving Sally wants to feel alive she dreams of skipping to the havens small islands of unrolled land the human race is left free the havens are places were animals still buried it still gets cold and lightning strikes human beings are not allowed there Sally and her dinosaur finally make it to the havens Sally is removed Oliver implants everything unnatural and disables the chip in her Deinonychus the animal immediately tries to tear her to pieces because leaving the safety of control the world is unpredictable and dangerous a brutal fight ensues Sally wins the fight bloodied and bruised it's called she feels sick nearly dying she just had to fight for a very survival against a dangerous animal which should be extinct she's killed it Sally then breaks down in euphoria because she finally feels alive the world is harsh unpredictable and she has struggled but I mean she's finally loved it certain movies books and video games influenced the story of this short obviously Blade Runner 2049 was a huge influence to get me started but the story ended up very different from the film it's also worth knowing that I listen to a lot of sci-fi audiobooks while animating the shore books that include the two Jurassic Park novels ready player one Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Ubik I'm not sure how much any of those really influenced the short but I did choose them specifically for the relevance to the genre I loved the presentation was actually inspired by the Bothan Stan reboots specifically the music choice in the narration comparing the two you'll see why but other than that there really wasn't one big source of inspiration I really just wanted to craft my own personal chunk of alternative sci-fi the look of this short the world I spent a lot of time on with a lot of frustration I knew exactly what I wanted from the Havens immediately natural woodland with a meadow on look melting snow orange trees and a color palette I'd probably describe his fiery cold that stuff was easy the city human stuff was a lot harder initially I wanted a very cyberpunk esque aesthetic I loved the cyberpunk aesthetic deep black swea a neon lowlife high-tech problem was collecting research cyberpunk is derivative as hell I couldn't tell you which of these images is from which franchise cyberpunk seascapes at least always look the same I wanted my world to be warm sandy and in the daylight still with all the troops the life high-tech neon lights and rain just with an earthy feel it took a long time of experimenting with minimalism color and so on by finally decided on this sandy Art Nouveau look a mix of traditional breckwell Luton plant life and thick wires billboards and neon lights whether my short can be classed as cyberpunk I have no idea I think if the SETI scene was set at nighttime it absolutely would I don't know Sally went through quite a few developments initially she was entering Sombra but when it came to modeling our I just really didn't like the hair I quickly drew this up and we prepared this design some interesting trivia boo Sally aesthetically she's a bit of a sailfin sir no I'm not a slender woman with Oscar but I am bald she wears the same clothes sin I have two pets Lourdes a lizard and the others a cat the cats called Scarlett her bedroom is modeled after mine too she even owns my pop when t-rex and my whiteboard her personality is completely different from Maine of course she's not complete self-insert but a it's just a look I loved dinosaurs when I got the opportunity to put a dinosaur in their Shore I honestly got quite excited dinosaurs appear in a lot of my animation mark and when they're not straight up dinosaurs they're things shaped like dinosaurs well I'm showing you right now we're a bunch of unfinished animations over the years all featuring some kind of Dana's are like a zombie dinosaur a paper dinosaur and that lodgings episode I never released hell even Odin's dragon design looks particularly dinosaur ish my dinosaur obsessions pretty bad I own every papal dinosaur funkier to date I collect them I also draw diagnose ours all the time here's one and here's another I'm particularly proud to this giant painting depicting a display source and a Styracosaurus predator-prey paid no attention to the hole in the canvas I'm also working on a super accurate Tyrannosaurus Rex sculpture at the moment but none of this is relevant and I've rambled for too long I just love dinosaurs well it's a little bit relevant point is I had a lot of fun designing and animating this Raptor I want you to be relatively scientifically accurate for once which meant fluffy I also needed to choose a dinosaur that was around the size of a very large dog dangerous but could reasonably be killed by a human being with a sharp stick I choose to base her off of a Deinonychus a dromaeosaurus instantly recognizable as a raptor and totally fits the size and look I was going for there were five posters lush paintings I had to design for this Shore the first being the not to your faults booster this was based on our sketch I dead of edgy Sombra very early in development of the short which I never finished and was kind of ruined as you can see but the idea I still loved and eventually developed into what you see in the animation the second poster being control I dropped from scratch for the short I like this one I think you can too stands on its own and the third being this three-piece painting depicting man over God this whole painting was based on the sketch I mentioned earlier the color and composition of these pictures was based on the Wolfenstein Reba posters as you can tell striking oppressive and red the metal image depicts three businesspeople dark silhouettes standing over God who is powerless splayed on a barren earth on the Left we have a man controlling the weather the seal boot caught in the storm to be saved and on the right are women resurrecting the dead a decrepit Church in ruin this painting illustrates the bald guys beliefs and by extension the four societies the man has overcome God God is on their leash the animation style and this is exactly the same as my recent animated shorts 3d cel-shaded character models in a world composed of 2d transparent planes the 3d animation is done in blender and the backdrops are painted and fooled shop if I were to move the camera the illusion is completely destroyed I've covered this a lot in my other videos so I really don't think I can add much else I had to create three different versions of Sally for the sharpen and multiple variations on those shocking Sally clothed Sally and Nick it Sally originally I had her fight the dinosaur completely nude in fact it was one of the first things I wrote down while working on this short woman completely naked fights dinosaur to their death it made for an extremely striking almost biblical image but I think I was just complaining to my favorite things I did to say it against it not because of the impending age restriction but because I could just just kind of look stupid Sally's character model is actually a repurposed tracer model I made for an overwatch animation that I never finished I just tweaked her level and removed the hair are joking autre is nearly the exact same as the tracer model I made and glad as well because I worked really hard on that rig as for the voice work Sally was voiced again by the lovely Adrienne Cox who did voice work for my previous animated short new monsters and Rachel hazhar I hope I'm pronouncing that right played this a loser as for the bald dude and they don't thank God that was me but I secretly voice another character I did all the voice work for scarlet the dinosaur every single noise she made came from me and they're completely on alert I couldn't find any dinosaur sound effects on the internet that I was satisfied with so I decided to make them myself here's a glimpse into my ongoing insanity my cat is looking at me so will your drain oh by the way this isn't the first time I've oiled anus or this there's also me yeah this short was a monumental amount of work it's twice as long as my average animation and it felt the actual animation a painting process the part that takes the most time was insane which is why I bought so many audiobooks besides parallel which I worked on for around 11 months this has been my biggest project I have to admit bouncing this and college was hell and I'm glad it's done I'm also very glad I did it I'd like this thing this short film is very close to my heart not only is the main character slightly based on me lives in my room has my cat but the shortly compasses nearly all of my favorite things dinosaurs sci-fi fitness and nature they also encompasses a lot of my fears the dangers of being too comfortable feeling dumb and too safe avoiding the unpredictable and the fear of control or lack thereof human nature and our weird obsession with controlling everything it's also very edgy they're sharp edgy and pretentious by like that alone my stuff is cagey and pretentious this short is about control this is a society that controls everything we've advanced to the point where humanity is technologically overcome God everything natural is under our control people love to a natural lengths there is no disease you are free to modify your body and person as you see fit the very nature be controlled whether there are no natural disasters animals and plants are bred and groomed for the needs of humanity nothing more and all are fade within plants we've brought back long dead animals to animals nature selected for extinction we brought them back and turned them into house pets again fade with implants making them do sale for everything must be comfortable and safe the whole world is a warm and steady 21 degrees Celsius the optimal comfortable room temperature so it all feels like nothing being so complacent in the world of comfort and control is numbing even frustrating to some Sally doesn't want to just live for the sake of loving experiencing day after day safe and warm she wants to fight and survive in a world where lights can get cold where she could get sick and hair in her own survival she could die when you remove all of our obsessive safety it's the world coup Dunn Blakely well tried to tear you to pieces but because Sally is taking a risk stepping into the unpredictable and dangerous she's finally alive the good with her the bad means nothing Sally is bloodied and bein cold and nauseous but she's finally loving she's feeling something she's free and is horrible an amazing and most importantly unseren but that's why it's great I hope you guys enjoyed this behind-the-scenes look into God's leash I don't know it's just amazing that I've got group of people who genuinely care of it well I do I aspire to be a filmmaker and it's just amazing to have a group of people out there to actually care about the films I make thank you all so much seriously and goodbye for now

Channel: Dead Sound

Views: 97,204

Keywords: how-to, making of, behind the scenes, animation, short film, vfx, breakdown, tutorial, sci fi, cyberpunk, cgi

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Length: 14min 32sec (872 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 24 2018