"Night of the Skeleton" -- (3DMM short film) --E

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This was an old project that I did some time ago that also took me far longer to finish before that than it ever needed to take. It's nothing too complicated, I was fiddling around with 3D Movie Maker at the time, just trying to make some goofy little movies that I could use as an excuse to practice my music & get the general feel of animating. The music in this project was all made using the Korg DS-10 Synthesizer software for the Nintendo DS of all things (the tracks were transferred to my PC from a New 2DS XL via the headphone jack), but with a little bit of spicing up in Virtual DJ. The inter-title graphics were largely inspired by classic German Expressionist films of the silent era and the story was meant to feel tongue-in-cheek, like a cute little parody of old black & white mad scientist flicks: Absurd experiment that makes little sense goes horribly wrong and someone gets their ironic comeuppance.

For the most part, as a way to challenge myself and to learn the ins & outs of 3DMM, I stuck with the stock assets & actors; the only mod I used was a green screen mod for some of the close-up shots. I have thought about returning to doing more 3DMM projects, but have struggled a lot with ideas and how many fan-made mods I'd want to use. I felt with this project at least, most of the originality would come from the music & intertitles, hopefully that's enough.

For those interested, you can also check out the original upload over on YouTube.

And you can also download/buy the EP of the music for this video, as well as my other original tunes (some of which I've also published here) over at my BandCamp.

Last but not least, you can support me even further on Ko-Fi, and if you have ideas or requests for more 3DMM projects like this one, I'd love to hear them.