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The penultimate Traditional Animation I assignment. It had to be 20-30 seconds long, and could have sound. (This is the only assignment I did with sound.) Obviously, mine went a bit overboard, as tends to happen with my assignments...
Since I didn't want to animate walking without good armatures, I thought I'd use some action figures that didn't have legs, and I happened to have three identical Daleks. My professor warned us that we might run into trouble if we used copyrighted characters, but that parody falls under Fair Use. I borrowed a lot of Barbie furniture (and one Barbie) and used some mini plastic Japanese food I got from Kinokuniya a few years before, and made the Daleks as domestic as I could. I decided to differentiate the voices to help people follow the dialogue rather than keep them all strictly Dalek-sounding.
I wrote the script before I shot anything, but I forgot to allow enough time for each line to be said. This causes the most trouble at the beginning, where there's something like ten frames for three lines of dialogue -- I added the door opening and shutting to buy me some time and I put the frames on fours to make the shot last longer. The Dalek eyestalks glowing were done with a light yellow soft brush in Photoshop in Overlay mode, and the whole thing was compiled in Final Cut Express.
See if you can spot all the Doctor Who / science fiction references!
Voices by me, my sister, and my brother. And Eliza Dushku.
Daleks (c) Terry Nation, BBC
Dollhouse (c) Joss Whedon, Fox