Making of | "No Monsters"

on November 11th I released new monsters a dystopian animated short film and sequel to my last film being pretty this video will cover my creative process the themes ideas and especially the are behind these short films [Music] I had a lot of different ideas for sequels to be in pray even in my original sketchbook there were so many little ideas and stories that I never really got around to showcasing and on that one video one I D I had sent her to rent a life cycle of a handyman paralleling that with the life cycle of one of the citizens the idea was to tell two stories both exactly the same just from different perspectives one fanciful and faked and the other horrific and real one of the strongest images I came up with for this idea I eventually turned into a sculpture [Music] and another ID I had was of a boy having named ears being told a bedtime story by his mother but the story is pure brainwashing propaganda and the boy is right to be scared in the end I decided to mesh his two ideas into one it's the story of a child who is scared of monsters and thread a bedtime story the short tells two stories both exactly the same just one fake and the other real the story is of a boy yes this is a boy a lot of people think it's a girl in fact it's the same boy from being prey it's the same model just top date it's the same mom it's the same house same family anyway the boy is exceptional and he is scared of monsters he has told a bedtime story by his mother to calm his nerves the story is told us of the exceptional girl who is also scared of monsters the exceptional girls outside of town she's confronted by a monster in his pursued she eventually makes it back to town where the monster disappears at the first sight of the handyman she is safe moral monsters do exist but not here stay not ordeal and you'll be safe this is false for we are then shown the exact same story by at the heart of town the monster replaced with a handyman and with no savior the exceptional woman with matching very sports is caught and assimilated this is exactly what will happen to the exceptional boy and he is very right to be scared this shortfall is a very similar formula to the first on our ear telling a story to children that story being pure brainwashing propaganda then heart cut to the dark reality in the world the same story in a different light and a scary cyborg lady to topple off this was deliberate I wanted my sequel to have a very similar feel only built upon the lore a little more I prefer the story to the first though I think it has more meat to it we are being praised a very broad and personal PSA and propaganda piece with a very simple focused message no monsters is a more personal story drenched in world building with fun unanswered mysteries and a very satisfying explanation mark at the end [Music] art is always fun the R is my favorite part of these I honestly think this show has some of the best images I've ever put to animation the short was split into three parts just like being prey the boys bedroom stuff the cartoon stuff in the dog robotics stuff all were very different to work on starting with a boy's bedroom stuff it was relatively straightforward the entire scene takes place in the boys bedroom the whole of the section was composed of just five different angles I think this meant I only had to paint fight backdrops slightly varying from shot to show up and not much which is one of the reasons that decided to put so much detail into his bedroom from the clock in which the hands do move is the short goes on to the rocket decals of the wall to the okay dinosaur toys to the giant penis castle in the distance the cartoon stuff I tackled very early into the making of this short which I came to wish I didn't i drew every single one of these pictures in a day about five days before the short was released I released the teaser before I'd even started this stuff I colored them the next day and I animate and rendered the next I wouldn't necessarily call them rushed but I just know that I would have changed some things if I give myself more time that being said I do still really like the style it's supposed to be a mix of old storybook illustration in retro cartoons [Music] the look I had for the exceptional girl was originally very similar to sex from long nightmares she originally wore a yellow wrinkled by decided against Ted considering the whole short monotone and it would have been distracting but I loved the drawings Identifier air leo and still have that yellow cool [Music] the cartoon handymen return looking very similar to their original cartoon design for being prey I really do like the contrast between the hyper-stylized joined affection of these robots and the soulless reality if they're true to Zayn honestly I think it reflects the whole idea behind these two shorts as for the monster a lot of you know this but being pretty and by extension no monsters was originally based on best picture I'd be neat it features a little girl offering a monster piece of birthday cake this can be seen in two ways either only in the innocent eyes of a child can a monster in an alley be seen as an equal that or this is an example of the horrors of innocence for this is a dangerous monster which will likely kill her because she is approached in these themes the idea of two different perspectives on the same story I carried over into new monsters I took a lot of influence from this image for the sequel the monster featured in storybook is the same monster just in a different style originally in my sketches and doodles I had the monster be a large wolf or bear very generic further submitting the obvious Red Riding Hood influenced by very glad I decided on this design it fits the world so much bear also calls back to the roots of all and who knows maybe what will deal aren't lying maybe these particular monsters do actually exist outside their walls just looking a little less like this four more like this now to the meat of the dark robotics stuff this whole section the exceptional woman being chased caught and assimilated was the toughest part understandably I've always preferred telling stories through imagery over action but man there was there was a lot of action in this part which meant a lot of annemiek a lot of running sliding falling and jumping it took a long time a very obvious influence for this section was Nazi Germany but one of my main artistic influences for the heart of what will deal the giant penis castle was HR Giger this is why the tower looks so much like a panini his work is phallic and horrid and beautiful and I absolutely love it I own a lot of figures and statues of his xenomorph design and a lot of my art is inspired by his stuff too my favorite being this life-sized facehugger sculpture I made which by the way I made a video wolf it's in the description shameless plug [Music] nearly everything in the heart of Odile is influenced by his work in some way the matriarch from being pretty specifically is heavily based on his stuff who by the way does make an appearance she's in the background of the hive night the imagery of the scene that I think is some of the best I've ever created I love the way the uglies in the distance look like phantoms drafting soulless lay and empty I love the way the shots in this scene parallel the energies of the story book I love this image here of the exceptional women and the mercy of the monster being looked down upon by all the authority on demon who did nothing to help her as she's judged by the Uglies who's pointing by the way follows her as she runs but my favorite image is of the assimilated exceptional woman I was originally going to base our design off of this painting I did this painting is literally called assimilation by decided that didn't really fit the art of the rest of the world instead I drew up this quick illustration the blonde expression that faced frosty - mimicking the infamous masks of all Dale hooked into the machine I really do like the final design I decided upon the art style is still the same as all my other recent shorts it's still the same 3d cel-shaded character models in the world composed of 2d transparent planes when the camera moves the illusion is completely destroyed but this time I really pushed it to its limits I had to learn some really weird techniques to achieve some of these images I moved the camera more than I ever thought possible and shots like this I also utilized a lot more focus and blur techniques through the entire shore one really good example of the weird new techniques I had to take advantage of can be seen in this show you can see the 2d backdrop then the 3d Sun lying on the bed then the 2d covers and pedal and then the 3d mother sitting on the bed it's kind of complicated to explain why but it was very tricky to achieve this show in the end I needed to use force perspective if I move the camera you can see that I had to shrink the mother down to achieve this layering technique though in the finished composition everything looks fine and if you think ask complicate and the next shot she touches him shadow and all I I don't even want to start on how much of a nightmare that was I really did try to cram as much detail and interesting imagery into the shore as I could the backdrops specifically are far more detailed than they were before seriously the smallest details might favorite being the dinosaurs in the boys room this is actually a reference to my own personal papal dinosaur collection but the detail I really like about this is that they're purposefully really dated designs because aesthetically this world is supposed to be a reflection in 1950s so I made sure that their dinosaurs like big scaly kangaroos just big floating terrible lizards this short also featured my first hybrid when the exceptional women is assimilated to the hive mind she's actually created using a combination of 2d and 3d her face and organs are 3d soceity Donna made models and her neck here in cables or 2d I think about beautifully and it's easily my favorite image from the shore the teram ugly has never meant unattractive in this world the Terran 'pretty never meant attractive and the term exceptional doesn't mean beautiful and metaphor you can make up these phrases wherever you born I encourage that of course but in this story I covered this in my last making off but the Society of Waddell is an artificial intelligences idea of the perfect human society it's based on the very flawed American dream 1950s suburban America a father hard-working providing for his family a mother cooking and cleaning taking care of the kids and the kids wide-eyed and brainwashed into replacing their parents we become old enough this is a world lacking of individualism are an expression everyone wears the same face a never-ending cycle cokes in a machine ugly people are the people who do not fit into their roles people who are too individual or odd or broken as a machine may see not necessarily ugly pretty people are the compliant ones the ones that work the cogs in the machine those who do fit their roles never questioning and never disobeying not necessarily attractive and the exceptional well we'll get to that later [Music] when creating this Shore trying to come up with a sequel to being prey I had this idea in the back of my head our deal system is objectively flawed it only works if everyone obeys auto deal needs all of its citizens to stay brain Washington to be blindly compliant of course they make a lot of effort to maintain this perfect running society they brainwash everyone into fitting into their roles becoming mindless and compliant anyone who shows a shred of individualism has killed the Uglies but the Uglies don't necessarily see through the system in fact they still believe in it I made a point of that a whole row of them ratted the exceptional woman further strengthening the system as a result the Uglies were never people who didn't believe in the way all deal works they were people who were different and didn't fare well if the people who truly do see through the system that was the idea that drove this shore where the objectively detrimental members of society the Uglies are lemonade those who are objectively exceptional the smartest most creative most gifted people posed the largest threat to this world those who can really see things from another perspective and challenge what they're told these are the people who have to realize the flaws in the system those who are truly brilliant could perhaps see through the brainwashing and propaganda and even perhaps start some kind of revolution this is why the exceptional boy in the short cannot sleep he's smart he knows something's wrong the system is sick he knows this and he is scared of the monsters that will inevitably come for him because of an ordeal spare fect system works because they categorize human beings the ugly are eliminate the exceptional are assimilate and the pretty turn on every single little thing ever further in the system an endless machine as a sign of human beings who are not human anymore thank you so much for watching this really it's it's amazing that so many people care about why have to see and why make especially with these last few videos and special thanks to all the fans who sent in auditions I got so much more than I thought I would I couldn't possibly listen to or reply to them all I got hundreds I really hope this little thank you is good enough the amount of support and enthusiasm was amazing by

Channel: Dead Sound

Views: 717,248

Keywords: how-to, making of, behind the scenes, animation, animated short, vfx, breakdown, tutorial, cgi, being pretty, no monsters, creepy

Id: Xw0spf3eTUY

Length: 13min 29sec (809 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 02 2017