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whats going on ._.?

sjorsdottir replied to your post “oh no the weird tumblr thing no one wants is here… again”

Wait, what?

Hey there! Thanks for asking! I’ve been whining here about Nukeland for at least a year but I guess it would be good to make an actual post about what it is and what’s going on and why am I so bitchy about it all the time. :)So as you might know, I went to college back in Hungary (I’m living in the US now but I’m 100% Hungarian) to learn animation. I got my Bachelor’s degree and decided to go for Master’s. Why not, education is free! Where else am I going to get a Master’s degree without burying myself into debt, right?I got all my credits and everything, all that is left to get my degree is to create/direct an animated short film and write a thesis.After stressing way too much (~2 years) about what my movie should be, I decided on Nukeland and worked with a screenplay-writer on the story and developed the two characters, Fluffy (the ghoul) and Butch (the mutant chameleon).

The story has been severely cut since the original idea - the animatic now is at around 5-6 minutes. It’s practically slapstick comedy set in a Fallout-Metro2033 inspired post-apocalyptic world. Fluffy is trying to find a nuclear shelter (vault) but unfortunately for him, the tunnel leading to the entrance is the lair of the murderous mutated chameleon, Butch. They meet, chase and once some spare nukes get launched, they run for their lives.I got a story consultant (who helped me immensely), a fantastic music composer and a sound designer I’ve yet to work with.At this moment I’m stressing over backgrounds because I’m really not that good at them and I feel like someone else would do much more justice to telling a story through the environment. However, I don’t know any background artists from back home whose style would go well with my characters so now I’m drawing layouts for some painters my production manager found for me. (Sadly, I can only employ Hungarians because the institute providing us money does not pay foreigners.)

I also plan on animating it all myself in TVPaint. I’ve started on it but stopped at some point due to the overwhelming stress that came with handling the whole thing alone. At this point I do have to finish it because people need to get paid and I need a good showreel and a movie that was entirely made by me. (I’ve only ever worked in others’ movies.) I have to remind myself every day that I’m not an awful artist for wanting to make something silly instead of something deep and for wanting to be a simple animator instead of a director.I am terribly thankful to all of you who have shown interest in Nukeland because I did not get that kind of enthusiasm from anywhere else but Cam.

There are plenty more posts about it in the Nukeland tag and also here’s an animatic that still needs editing and sound effects. This is the first draft of music so that will change a bit as well!

Darn that’s hard to decide.

Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Harry Potter 1-4  by J. K. Rowling (the ones my sis read to me)

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Faust I by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (I sang in class)

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche

Lord of the Flies by William Golding (honestly, that book…)

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