About Carstairs
After
redesigning the Website using Adobe's
Flash,
I was eager to do a short film in the same medium, as a warm-up to
doing more ambitious projects.
Having enjoyed watching many exotic B Movies I find that’s where much
of my inspiration comes from. Carstairs and Wilkins are characters I
had developed a while ago and I thought they would be perfect for this
project. The characters were designed and animated in traditional
pencil, applying all the usual production steps. They were then scanned
and imported into Flash.
I used a drawing tablet with Flash to trace and finish the drawings,
but as I progressed, I found I was able to create many elements
directly within the program.
Flash has many amazing features and powerful tools as well as some
unexpected pitfalls to work around, as it is mostly designed for
Website development. Another advantage is that it outputs a very small
file size, which is very beneficial for fast downloads from the
Internet.
After recording multiple takes of the dialogue lines in different
voices, a story structure appeared in my mind and I completed a
storyboard, which I followed very closely, embellishing the visuals
further at every stage.
During the production “Carstairs”, many other story lines sprang to
mind, so who knows? A sequel could be in the cards…
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