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   GET INSPIRED - A SHORT FILM FOR ASSEMBLY'05
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           	BY MANU JÄRVINEN


"Get Inspired" is the first short film I've ever made. 
It was a huge step between illustration and animation 
for me.  Even though the whole film is almost full of 
still images,  I managed to get some life into it via
3D-animation and a couple of frame-by-frame animations 
made in  Photoshop  and  sequenced  in  After Effects. 
(which was a hell lot of work, lemme tell you that :P
The  rest  of  the  film  relies  on  simply twisting, 
rotating and scaling of still images.

For me,  the main objective of this film was the fact
that I made it entirely without anybody's help,  all 
on my own. That way I learned so much about modeling, 
animation,  composition,  storyboarding,  making and 
timing of audio and much much more.

The title  "Get Inspired"  has actually nothing to do 
with the film itself.  I  just  want to encourage the 
audience of the Assembly festival to  make  something 
they've never made before.

The  next  film  I'll  make,  would  be  based  on 3D 
character animation I think. But we'll see.

Some of the sounds of this film  I just recorded with 
my microphone. The rest of the sound effects and some 
music samples  were  taken  from  the following sound 
effect collections and free Internet databases:

- http://users.skynet.be/bassculture.org/samples.html
- http://www.sampleswap.org/filebrowser-new.php?sid=
  ce21df4fd4b4a66258c1da2bb520dfa4
- http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/tagsView.php

The  Freesoundproject-site  states  that  you  should
include the Users Attribution -file along the film if
you use the material of that site. I added that file
in   \Get_Inspired_Xtra\Get_Inspired_FreeSoundProject
UsersAttribution.txt

The fonts seen in the film were from:

- Phillip G. Andrade: "Alien Marksman"
- Tom Murphy 7: "Tom's Handwriting", "Tom's New Roman"

I hope you enjoyed the film. I have HDTV1080p-version 
(1920x1080 pixels, every frame as a lossless PNG)  of 
this film available, so I think I'll release at least
960x540  version  of  this film someday. Gotta find a 
good host first.

Take care Y'all, and GET INSPIRED!

Manu Järvinen
www.maxon.rules.it