The World Where We Met 2012

Watch Time: 4 mins 5 secs ・ Audio: Music only

Animated in Adobe Flash, properly rendered in Photoshop and then compiled together in Adobe After Effects.

A silent short animation for my final year animation project. The story follows a teenage girl sick in a hospital. She has an out-of-body experience and discovers that she can see other spirits and strange monsters. She encounters a young child who shares the same experience, and whose dying body is in a coma and does not have long to live. The teenage girl decides to play with the child and cheer her up until Death arrives to take the child away.

Initially, I had a lot of trouble finishing this project near the final stages due to some life situations. I actually didn’t submit the complete animation to my professor, I had cut corners a bit by not colouring in the backgrounds of the scenes where the girls were spirits. Yet my professor had graded it as complete, and it was screened along side my classmates’ animations in a local theater. (o-_-o)

I was going to leave it in its incomplete form, but my musician for the project wanted a copy of my animation for his portfolio. I was too embarrassed to send him my animation incomplete, so I went back in and coloured in all those unfinished parts, and finally completed it to the degree I wanted before sending it to him. （ー○ー）＝３

I later submitted this animation to the Golden Key International Honour Society and it won the 2013 Visual and Performing Arts Achievement Award for Mixed Media. ヾ(⌐■_■)/

This animation was originally posted on Vimeo and I eventually took it down.