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My minor project The Blind Caterpillar which is a 2 1/2 min hand-animated film completed in 5 weeks has been selected for Kinofest which is taking place in Bucharest in Oct.

This film was made in 5 weeks for my minor project at RMIT University AIM. The inspiration for it came from a poem by the the 13th century Sufi Mystic, Jalal al-Din Rumi.

Or here is the link to the YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_W69D6z3_A

I used the Samtiq which is a DIY-Cintiq that I made at the start of the year to do the animation and it proved to be a great tool.

For those interested in seeing a better quality version than the YouTube one, here is a quicktime (70mb):

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These backgrounds were were designed and laid out by me and drawn in illustrator by my fiancé:

Here are a couple of scenes in the cleanup stage:

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Here is the second revision of the animatic for my minor project “The Blind Caterpillar”:

It’s been almost a month since my last post and things have changed quite a bit. I have been very busy with my minor project so I haven’t been able to post much on the blog but I have started scanning some of the sketches for the film and start to post them here then I will start to post more of the animatics and final artwork as the project evolved.

Here are the first batch of the concept sketches, click the images to see the larger version in the gallery:

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Here is a production still of The Greedy Caterpillar