:::DARK PLANKTON
The Sea God, POSEIDON has created a league of powerful Aquatic Zombies.
Each species possessing it's own unique psychic abilities and special characteristics. All lurking within the depths...where it is dark and cold...and mysterious...and all with a deep thirst for human flesh. The goal of these zombies is to turn the all of the oceans into The Sea Of Blood.
THE ERA OF DARK PLANKTON HAS ARRIVED !!!
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Atton PaulDirector
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Project Type:Animation, Short
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Genres:animation, horror, zombies, sci-fi
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Runtime:6 minutes 16 seconds
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Completion Date:February 6, 2014
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Production Budget:0 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Shooting Format:digital
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
Swimming inside a sea of animation my whole life.
Creation of the film:::
Im a rather "low-fi" kinda guy when it comes to creating my animated collage-films...always have been really, and this film is no exception. ALL of the image-scenes were created entirely within an old app that I have used exclusively for more than 15-years to edit my own created images as well as found images...Photo Deluxe. I like to call this program the baby brother to Photoshop as it does pretty much the same as the earliest version of Photoshop only with cheesy icons. Photo Deluxe was all I could afford back in those days and I've stuck with it ever since. By now, I know Photo Deluxe like the back of my hand and know of all it's tricks and hidden features and I appreciate its limitations as that always force me to be more creative, I feel. I only ever use my Photoshop 6 program for converting .tiff images into .jpeg, and that's about it. Photoshop offers me TOO MANY options, for my taste...and so I stick with the basic features that Photo Deluxe offers, while knowing how to push them to the fullest.
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-And so every scene and "imagined-movements" therein were designed FIRST and saved as individual jpegs and placed into scene-folders...some folders containing almost 400 separate stills. All of these stills were created on my old iBook G4.
-These stills were next transfered onto my old PowerPC G4 and placed within iMovie 5-HD frame-by-frame and assigned individual duration lengths by trail-and-error in hopes of syncing with the sound-effects I was also importing as well as flow and movement...and so given my limitations of not using an actual "animation program" to do all this seamlessly...I was left the laborious task of annotating and allocating all this mind-numbing jibberish in REAL TIME...FRAME BY BLODDY FRAME!!! lol....
-The lip-syncing during the opening of the film took a full week to get right while working within the iMovie interface...and the many sound-effects I was adding only slowed down the playback of iMovie as the film progressed further along to the point where I resulted to creating additional iMovie "projects" for just individual scenes so that I could watch the actual flow of a scene without iMovie freezing every-other second. Once an individual scene along with sound-effects was completed...
-I would then copy and past all of the content, as in image duration times, soundtrack effects elements, and transitions into the main film project and do each remaining scene that way until the film's end.
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Now, after countless hours of obsessive-drenched work I am pleased to share it with you all :-)
:::DARK PLANKTON
Thank You for watching and have a nice day.
Cheers,
Atton Paul
02/08/2014