This past semester, I took an Astronomy class (which both rocked and blew my mind). For our final project, we were allowed to take some creative liberty and stray from the traditional term paper. Take creative liberty I did, and opted to make a short film about the Space Race.
http://vimeo.com/2375747
It was made completely with crayon drawn puppets, and all of the action happened in front of the camera (i.e. no animation in post). I wasn’t sure if I would narrate it myself or have a child’s voice do it, but I eventually decided to get my little cousin to narrate. This was a challenge at the time (it’s not easy to get a kid to say “Yuri Gagarin”), but certainly made the video in the end.
I also decided to release the scanned assets under a Creative Commons license, in the hopes that someone might have as much fun with them as I did. If it's your thang, fell free to check them out here:
http://nealgillis.com/other/
http://vimeo.com/2375747
It was made completely with crayon drawn puppets, and all of the action happened in front of the camera (i.e. no animation in post). I wasn’t sure if I would narrate it myself or have a child’s voice do it, but I eventually decided to get my little cousin to narrate. This was a challenge at the time (it’s not easy to get a kid to say “Yuri Gagarin”), but certainly made the video in the end.
I also decided to release the scanned assets under a Creative Commons license, in the hopes that someone might have as much fun with them as I did. If it's your thang, fell free to check them out here:
http://nealgillis.com/other/