A Mouse and his Moustache...
Mouse-tache is an animation student film that was released in 2011 from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Scotland. In the dusty valleys of Spanish California, a hero does whatever it takes to keep order in a town - but it's not easy to save people when they don't want to be saved. With a dancer's life in danger and a dastardly criminal at large, he must decide if hero-ship in an ungrateful world is worth it.
This website outlines the entire process from pre-production to post-production. You can view our early research, concept and color art, production blog posts tracking our progress, and the final film. We hope the information here provides great insight into our production process.
THE TEAM
TECHNIQUE
This website outlines the entire process from pre-production to post-production. You can view our early research, concept and color art, production blog posts tracking our progress, and the final film. We hope the information here provides great insight into our production process.
THE TEAM
- Ashley Xzandra Burns - director, script, storyboards, character artist, key animator, editor
- Georgina Richardson- script editor, storyboards, additional character artist, key animator, in-betweener, prop designer
- Sarah Dargie - script editor, background artist, compositor, effects
TECHNIQUE
- 2D animation, 12-field paper, blue pencils for roughs, B pencils for clean-up on new sheets
- Scanned frames with field key for each scene, aligned by tracking in AfterEffects
- Cropped frames in Photoshop, used channels to select lines and change line color on new layer
- Colored in Photoshop on layer beneath line layer
- Composited frames in AfterEffects and exported individual scenes
- Assembled exported scenes in Final Cut with sound effects and music