Production History:
Puppet was a small passion project idea, that was original in the back-burner due to my time at University. However, in my final year, we were tasked to make a final project using any media type and I jumped straight-in to bring this animation to life.

With only a month to create the full production pipeline for this project, I organised multiple story outline that would show the beauty of the puppet’s unique character and the world he was brought into. Each week leading up to the final submission, I executed the story-outline, concept-art, storyboards, blocking, animating, re-shoots and editing.

The biggest challenge was only having under 2 weeks to animate the full short, yet it came out beautifully. Getting to incorporate complex emotions with minimal facial expressions, improvising a green-screen by using just a green folding-mat, I managed to finished it on time and it even got me to complete university with BA honours diploma.

After University:
With some extra time after university, I gave the short film a little more polishing with adding more foley-sounds, and better music, and some credits at the end to give thanks to everyone that supported my work.

I was then eager to get more eyes on this animation, therefore, I reached out to various film festivals and lucky the film got to be featured in at least 4 festivals, which only grew the films popularity. Most notably featured at ‘APEX Film Awards and Film-Bath Festival’.

After some time, I was then able to publish ‘Puppet’ onto my YouTube channel. Even after over 1 year being on my channel, it is still attracting new viewers with currently 5,500 views!