El
Cochinito is an animated short film made in stop-motion technique with plasticine figures.
___The
story is about a little pig who is fond of gambling, but has
bad luck. It's also about fear and paranoia.
___This
is a personal project that comes from the interest that I've
always had in the art and technique of animation.
___My goal is to achieve the best
quality posible using the tools and materials available to me;
things that I've been able to buy or borrow. (to the friends
who have helped me, thanks!).
___Big part of the work was building
the puppets and objects which in their majority were based on
real ones, but I was lucky enough to find a couple of ones already
made. Also a Dolly and a Crane had to be built for the camera
movements.
___The inpiration for the visual
and narative style came from japanese animation, I like their
way of telling stories; creating something interesting, effective
and expressive keeping in mind the resources, that in my case,
were limited.
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I
tried to use and adapt that language of images and camera
movements to an environment of 3-D objects.
___Part of the inspiration also
came from all the cartoons that I've seen on television since I was a
kid to the movies of today: live action, hand drawn
animation, stop-motion and Computer Generated 3-D animation.
___This
project was and is for me a way to learn different ways of
doing things, in fact I would like to thank all the professional
animators that participate in things like the website www.stopmotionanimation.com
and others like Peter Lord & Brian Sibley for their book;
for sharing with generosity their knowledge and work techniques,
knowing that a lot of them didn't have that kind of help when
they were starting and had to learn by trial and error.
___Well, if you already read
all this, thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy the other
options on the site.
–Daniel
Ruiz Lucero
daniel@cochinitothemovie.com |
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I hope you enjoy it!
Show it to your friends!!
WARNING: PG-13
Mild violence and fake blood.
 Thanks to Etel Magazine
for including me in
their new issue!
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