Finally, after hours of animating and stop motion work, I’ve assembled my final animation, called “Fryling”, and uploaded it to youtube:

Inspired by my last project, it has Lovecraftian elements with a small pinch of horror. I had lots of fun making the soundscape to go alongside too.

A screenshot from my session in Audition. I spend a lot of time editing stuff like pitch and reverb to make sounds like a glass rolling on a table sound like the grumbling of a grand oceanic beast and the sounds of piano strings more ethereal and ominous.

One of the digitally animated gifs I made for the animation of an ambiguous tentacle reaching out to grab the fish character.

Part of one of my stop motion animations in gif form with the puppet I made.

A frame-by-frame of my 2D eel puppet also trying to grab the fish.

The backgrounds in the animation are a mixture of watercolour paper layerings and real-life elements manipulated in a way to distort their depth and size. For example, the corner of the room the monster is found in is just the corner of a wooden shelf. I also animated over my fish tank for some shots.

Some of the other essential software I used for this project were ibisPaint and Kinemaster. I had more of a familiarity with these apps than the adobe software which helped me complete my animations much more quickly. however, I did end up putting everything together in Premiere Pro.

I enjoyed doing something so out of my comfort zone with this project. video editing software has never been my strong suit but I feel like I’ve learned lots of essential skills whilst completing the brief and feel more confident about using these applications in the future.