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Published: 2009-06-04 20:12:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 18116; Favourites: 270; Downloads: 205
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Working overtime can be murder...What happens when you let your work get on top of you?
Meet John Stark, put-upon junior executive at M.T.S. Pharmaceuticals. Working to meet his budget deadlines late into the night, his paperwork literally takes on a life of its own, as, tired of being subjugated and confined to filing cabinet prisons, it rebels against its master.
Now, John must fight to stay alive, in a decidedly hostile working environment.
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Written, Directed and Produced by Stephen Bell
Modelled and Animated by Stephen Bell
Soundtrack by Alex McDonald
Special Thanks to Wayne Thomas, Bryan McDowall, Paul Boyd, Pat Imrie, Chris Seed, Liz Owen, David Mace, Nicholas Joyce, Thomas Coleman, Gili Dolev, Ding and Stewart, Ewan Bachell, Neil McDonald, Gareth Allen, My Parents.
Produced at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
Copyright Stephen Bell 2009
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My degree film, for which I received an upper second-class BA(Hons) in Animation. Go me, I guess. Soundtrack by my flatmate, Alex McDonald. Visit his website at:
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Comments: 106
That was freakin awesome!!!! I wanna learn how to animate that kinda stuff!!!!!!!!! Well you could probably do it better than me but still!! XD XD XD good work!!! X3 X3 <33
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i would be calling ghostbusters right about then
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I absolutely loved the part where he used the staplers as guns, and when they got jammed. Ahaha.
Nicely done!
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It's too dark here and there but overall it's a killer! Very creative!
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Holy crap! 
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Now this is pretty dang good! Everything is well put together. Even though it's just a film, I liked how the character held himself together, like how he used the Stapler, the Scissors, but I liked the ending part the most. Brilliant!
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Super good! I thought it was a bit creepy with the paper monster and all. I won't be planning on staying in to work after dark.
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dear god how on earth did you make this.
its freakin amazing
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Forget rock < paper < scissors-
A stapler is where its at!
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What is that yellow thing in the bottom-left corner here? Looks like a weird face or something..
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Haha, I'm surprised only one person noticed it XD It's Frogcake, a bit of an in-joke that appeared in 8 of the films for our degree show.
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Ahh okay, yeah I thought it was a little 'easter egg' or something
Anyways, great work on this and congratz on the DD!
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Very cool. I love the intro and outtro shots with the building. The blinding red and blue light really set the mood. And great music.
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Congrats!
Your work is freakin' awesome!
I love all of it!
Beautiful modelling,fantastic lighting and a really great animation!
interesting story and nice music too!
keep it up,you really deserve your DD!
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This is a wonderful little short. I love how it plays off the idea of zombies, but paper hehe.
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This part really gave me the chills! Especially since the computer would have turned off too, if the power had gone out. Very creepy!
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Great film! The part where the paper comes out of the filing cabinet was scary.
The only thing I found a little irritating was the music, I felt that it was a little repetitive and didn't contribute much to the atmosphere towards the middle and end, especially when the monster comes out of the elevator (didn't feel fear then!)
Other than that really superb work
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THis film is amazing! I love how you animed the characters, and the city at the beginning is beautiful!
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When the archive drawer opened and the papers came out = creepiest moment ever. o_O
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wow, thats real ninja style
Great Stuff!!
Mind me asking what software? and how long it took?
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Cheers! I made the film using Autodesk Maya 8.5. It took about 3 months to do the pre-production work, and about another 3 months to model, rig, light and animate it all, with around 4 weeks for rendering and editing.
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Wow! This must have taken forever to put together! Wonderfully smooth animation and a great concept and story! I really hate paperwork so this fits nicely into the horror genre for me! LOL! I'd like to see this at the Animation Festival at SIGGRPAH! Excellent piece and congratulations on the DD!
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Hehe, yeah, the concept formed after a particularly hellish summer working my office job a few years back. And yeah, Siggraph would be nice, if somewhat unlikely XD
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I don't know why SIGGRAPH would be unlikely! I went a couple years ago and some of the animations they had were...um...hard to understand!
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wow this was really incredible, you've done a really great job, your characters move really well, it was extremely well directed, the lighting and camera angles portrayed the story perfectly and i especially loved the pieces of paper they took on a mischievous and malevolent feel. Being hit by the staplers was genius and i loved the way they moved when they hit the wall. the scene was well established, the cityscape was great, there was barely any slide when the main character was running down the hall and the reveal of the giant paper and stationary monster was really effective and scary. i honestly thought 'run man run!!!'. I'm half way through the second year of my animation course so i know exactly what you went through to make this and i am well, well impressed. Quick question: did you use maya to make this?
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Hehe, thanks for the kind words. Yeah, I produced the film using Maya 8.5, and composited it using After effects. It was a long slog XD
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nice and yeah i can imagine. i thought it looked like maya and after effects gave a nice final touch. No problem, it's all true i wish you lots of luck in finding a job in the future i'm sure you'll do just fine.
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How the hell do you make something in 3D?
I honestly don't understand even a little.
Anyway yeah, it was cool.
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I'll show you some time. Cheers man.
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Amazing story... kept me watching until the end.
Love the paper man rope
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Heh, cheery cheers. I'm glad you liked it!
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Steve, this is awesome!! So glad I finally got to see it. You obviously put a hell of a lot of work into it, I really hope you get to do it full time.
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Cheers m'dear, here's hoping. Speaking of, I'm down your way from Tuesday till Thursday next week handing out showreels to a few places (Double Negative, The Mill etc). Fancy meeting up for a coffee or something?
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OMG I HOPE YOU GET A JOB AT DOUBLE NEG!!
Those guys are so much fun and I love it when I get to do a run there ^^. Yeah, I'm well up for a Coffee. Sadly I'm doing a real dispatch shift instead of my usual doss time shift but I have at least an hour at lunch and then I finish work at 7 so have all evening.
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