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Well, mine is one of the 120 projects in the first round of this competition:

http://bit.ly/Rz2UQ, click on "Zur ZDFmediathek", then a popup opens and loads. And loads. It's at least 15 MB, and I'd like to have a word or two with the one who's responsible for this wagon load of buffalo manure of programming. And then you're still not there but have to search for my project, "Herbert". (Click "Projekte", click "Zufall" and change to "Sortieren "Alphabetisch", then you have a chance to find it in the middle ...) This is one of the worst web applications I ever saw, completely against any usability principle!

Waaah.

OK.

So there's my proposal, a 3 min animatic which, I'm sorry, is understandable only for germans. They compressed it really awfully. All was drawn in TVP, but many shots done in AS. Have fun, if possible ...

AH!!! What are they saying??!!!

I liked the style, always do, lol but i couldn't understand a word!

After clicking "Projekte" type "Herbert" under "Suche" it's much faster. I like how some german words sound like english, for instance "Suche" sounds like "Search." But yeah, the website designer hates us.

As for "Herbert":

The storyboard has a great variety of shots and staging, it almost doesn't even need to be animated. I like how you got a lot out of certain scenes with the same background. Makes me want to study cinematography this weekend. Even the color palette is interesting.

Now it's online I see all the mistakes and all the missed chances to improve ... but hey, it was done in about 3 weeks during which I did another film as well.

The main problem was storytelling: how to show things like being online, being inside a computer, and such. It's a "thesis film" (in the german sense of "Thesenfilm"), one which is done not to tell a story but to discuss certain concepts. (And it'd not the film, it's the trailer for that film ...) I did lots of scribbles and noted dialogue snippets when they hit me. About half of the material went into the video. Even the dialogue was nearly improvised since I wrote it down just before my voice actors (all friends) recorded it. Then I spent lots of time on the soundtrack, arranging all the bits in some kind of order, using the continuous music track as a grid.

Only after that I started to draw in earnest. First I set the colour palette for each room, starting with a simple colour card. I can recommend that, it nicely helps to establish a visual identity of sequences.

I put "Herbert" on http://www.enigmation.de since lots of people couldn't watch it at http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/ ... Popup=true (which is also the place where you could vote me 5 stars, if you can stand the registering process). Only 4 days left in this first round of the competition! Can't sleep.