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The Clocktower
Published: 2008-04-18 20:43:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 280243; Favourites: 10102; Downloads: 8820
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My Thesis film, after 10 months of hard labor is finished! Thank you to everyone that watched this from the beginning, I hope you enjoy it!Everything created by me, sound through freeplaymusic.com
Edit: Wow! I can't believe I got a DD, thank you all so much for your kind comments! It's exciting to read them all and I'm definitely trying to get back to all of you. Thank you so much to ~nickeatworld and ~fraughtuk for their suggestion and`feawen for featuring it!
My blog, for some behind the scenes work and my other artness www.carakhan.com
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UPDATE: You can now download premium content for personal use. For commercial use, further permission is required - contact me at cara@carakhan.com
For $5 (500 pts) you have access to the original files, created in Maya 2008:
Master Character File for Penny Dulum (the character) - fully rigged with blendshapes
The clocktower
The Houses
Clock face detail
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Comments: 2517
one area of improvement, if you are looking for critique, would be your characters' facial expressions. i found it was a little exaggerated; the idea would have communicated equally well and perhaps more gracefully with subtler expressions. but yeah offset this critique with my previous comment, this is a superb short.
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what a beautiful idea and environment. im hoping to get into sheridan animation so ive been looking through the graduates' reels and none of them are this good. i hope you get far with your career!
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A few days ago, I received an e-mail from someone I had never met. I was having my butler (Yes, butler. Blow me.) read my inbox to me as I busied myself with a book across the room. He told me that it did not appear to be a spam message or something with a virus, so I asked him to open it. It was a long one, telling quite a story about a monster who kills with fear, but only those who look at it.
Apparently it comes to your bedside on three consecutive nights, on the first to merely trying to rouse you by placing a claw on your chest, but on the third night screaming at you to wake up. The message stated that its victims had all been found with no determinable cause of death, just that they were completely frozen with wide eyes and a horrified expression. At the end of the letter, the writer explained that the demon, monster, ghost, whatever it is, can be delayed by telling people about it; hence the email.
I chuckled.
Now, I had received my fair share of chain letters, but this one piqued my interest. What was this person on about? They didn't appear to be selling anything or playing on people superstitions, so I guess they were simply trying to frighten as many people as they could, just for shits and giggles. I had Fredrick (my butler) delete the email and shut down the computer. This person had failed to scare me, and whether they knew it or not, I was amused. I knew there was no such thing as monsters, especially one that had to obey such a silly rule as this one.
I was wrong.
Two days later, my parents found Fredrick in his quarters, stiff as a board with eyes wider than Tara Reid's mantrap. The paramedics couldn't find anything; they said he must have had a heart attack in his sleep or merely died of old age. But I knew differently. It had come for him. It had taken my butler's life by force. It was real and now it was coming for me. Strangely, though, I wasn't afraid. I didn't spend the rest of that day in a mortified stupor, twitching in my room like a beaten dog. No, I was perfectly calm.
There was a reason for that.
That night it came for me. I heard my bedroom door swing open. I felt the sudden breeze and change in the room temperature. I kept my eyes closed as if it mattered. I could sense it slowly advancing across my bedroom floor toward my bed. My acute hearing could almost detect the sound of the carpet fibers bending under its weight. I felt it reach across my form to press on my chest. Without hesitation, I sat up and 'looked' this thing right what I assumed was its face.
It was the most awkward pause you can imagine.
"W- Why aren't you dead...?", I heard it say with a raspy, yet somehow gurgling voice. "Because...", I said confidently, "... I still haven't seen you, I haven't seen anything in my entire life." I felt the creature take a step back in shock, which I found ironic; scaring the monster who kills with fear. "That isn't right! It's not fair!", it said. "It's just as fair as taking away a friendly old butler, or anyone for that matter.".
I felt him... her... it... whatever look at the floor, trying to cope with being denied. He lost it. Suddenly, it was stomping around my room, throwing books and other things to the floor in a fit of rage. Finally, he threw himself through my window and made it into the night. I felt my way over to the broken window and leaned out to yell after him.
"YOU MAD, BRO?"
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knowing that she'll probably be trapped there forever is just so heartbreaking!
such amazing concept by the way, this is is so beautiful!
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The comments at the bottom are so annoying when your trying to watch it. Nice clip by the way
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I love her movements!! It's very difficult to realize...
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The colors! Everything's back! Hurray!!!!!
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She paused time, who comes up with these ideas!? I mean they're soooooo good <3
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so beautiful. Sometimes our responsibilities can seem to rob us of our freedoms. But worth it for the greater good. Thank you for reminding me of that
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That was absolutely stunning. Beautiful storytelling
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I like this. Kinda sad though
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Woo~ It's really beautiful, it's amazing, really. I love the colours and the music and the whole animation in general!
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I am pretty sure I felt my heart-breaking the ENTIRE time. One of the loveliest non-professional animations I have ever watched.
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A cog in the machine and if we don't play our individual parts the world stops^^ Good work and practical execution of this idea
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Wow! My goodness!
I'm really moved by this film!
The storyline, pace and quality of the art in this film is absolutely amazing; it's far more impressive than Disney's recent productions.
Great job, and thank you so much for posting this on dA!
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Oh Please, thank YOU for your incredible skill, perseverance and imagination!
I'm totally in love with your film.
I hope you lead an enjoyable, successful career!
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woaoooo amazing, the history is beatiful and touching. and the animation is awesome
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Wow.....oh....holy donuts.....
This animation is.....really......wonderful....TTnTT
I really love this.....
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Funny. My reading teacher is showing this video for us to analyze it. Good work.
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That's awesome! Where do you go to school?
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Only one word can describe it... Awesome!
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Amazing. Beautiful! It reminds me of the universe I had as a child, full of colors and pixies. Not sure why, but I enjoyed it wholeheartedly!
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This ..... is .... a masterpiece :')
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What is the Name oft the song?
Thanks
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Sorry it was something I got from a website and it can't be found anymore.
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i remember seeing this at my school during film fest
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ooh where did you go to school?
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Oh my god it's wonderful! It remainds me Tim Burton stories. You are really talented in my opinion!
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