In Your Closet...

My inspiration behind this short little animation was the childhood fear of having a monster in your closet. Well, everyone knows there are no such things as monsters, right? WRONG! They are real! And they DO live in your closet! But they're not all that bad. In fact, this one is rather caring and helpful. It will even turn on your night light and close itself in for the night so you can sleep without being afraid of monsters.

I really wanted to dabble with animation, because that's something I've always wanted to try, so I decided now was my chance.

I wanted to make the tentacle kind of cartoonish and fun so that it wasn't too scary, so I used bright colors and didn't try to make it very realistic and didn't worry if each tentacle was identical to how it really would be from shot to shot (as far as suction cup placement, etc).

I had a hard time with the background images. I don't know what in the world I was doing when I shot them, but even though I used a tripod, it seemed like none of them matched up with one another. I think this could have been caused from my own indecision though, because I kept changing my mind on what was the best way to shoot them. It was hard fitting the right amount of door in the image because the door is a lot taller and thinner than I was imagining it to be.