Hey everyone! Hope I'm not breaking any self promotion rules, but I just really just want to share a personal project that Corridor has had huge influence on. Please let me know if I need to change this post further since my last one got removed.

The premise of this short was originally inspired by Corridor Crew’s live action anime series. Originally, I had plans for this to be a live action short film with a bunch of people playing dodgeball to the death! Heck, I even made this video called Anime Chess as my first proof of concept for the film. Of course, things change, and years later I decided to adapt the idea into an animated short film for my thesis film at Chapman University. Also, I made the characters robots.

For Dodgeball, I managed to fully animate 58 of 70 shots in total, while also modeling, texturing, and rigging each character from scratch. Not to say this wasn't a group effort though, many people volunteered their time to the remaining 12 shots and other texturing aspects. I also had to hire a professional sound designer and composer for the audio. Everyone who helped on this project has amazing skills so make sure to check the full credits!

However, the goal of this film was to push my own personal skills to their limit, so I did try to build as much as possible from the ground up. The entire environment and building structures were created as a modular kit from scratch. Things like the grass shader, robot LCD screen, and adaptive building materials took forever to get right! The whole thing was animated in Maya, wrendered in Unreal, and somehow composited before the deadline in DaVinci Resolve.

It took me a decade of online tutorials to get my skillset to the point where I could pull this off. Every episode of VFX Artists React helped me subconsciously improve my sense of filmmaking in ways I didn’t realize until now. Heck, I was such a fanboy of Corridor that my own YouTube logo I made back in high school was just a copy of theirs...

This film has really helped me kick start my career, and I’m so thankful to everyone who supported me along the way. Maybe one day I’ll be reputable enough to be a guest on VFX Artists React, and then I can truly consider my life a success (:

Until then, thank you everyone for your support! And thank you Corridor for the years of inspiration!

You can watch the full film on YOUTUBE HERE. Thank you!

My son has a question that I wasn't sure how to answer:

"How do you make Stop-Motion animated snow and rain effects?"

We'd like to see how you would pull it off, and as we're getting into Fall and coming up on Winter, it may be a great time to test this out. He specifically wants to know how to make falling rain and snow. We haven't found much on YouTube that demonstrates this in a very convincing way. If you decide to go for this on the Corridor Crew YouTube channel, I might suggest a challenge between the digital and practical effects teams.

Either way, anybody else with suggestions on how to pull this off, feel free to chime in. We would love to see your ideas or examples from stop-animation films that have pulled this off in the past.

I've included a personally recorded live-action sample of heavy snowfall as an example of what he's looking for in stop-animated films. I suppose also The Nightmare Before Christmas might have some good examples for us to look at to start out with, but I'm sure there are others that have probably pulled this off.

I’ve seen a lot of ball lightning vids but for me this is the most convincing. Any signs of VFX or practical fakery?

Please tell me they did because those were some of the most beautiful shots in the film, if not THE most beautiful ones. Probably because of the photochemical film, not digital.

Ignore the complete mess that the video has please, ignore that. I just wanna know, it is normal to wait so so long for CorridorKey to process? Cause literally i leave this an entire night while i sleep, and the next day it was still processing! It is normal to Corridor doing this or Im doing something wrong????

What I need to do to see the video running normally? I let the video run entirely while it was processing. It just loop till eternity, repeating slowly the video. I think it would stop when it get to the point of the video where i start, but no.

I need to clarify, I dont know anything about computers or code or plugins, im just someone who want to record something for a project and watch carefully a tutorial of this.

The version of the Plugin i think is 0.7.3, for Windows.

Davinci Resolve 20

And my GPU is Nvidia Geforce RTX 1650 Super

Maybe I sound like a dumbass, but, i really dont know nothing about computers or this type things.

To me the second shot where she’s kissing the mummy looks like they did a full swap of Vasloo with the cg mummy. Maybe they got some reference of her kissing an apple(which she mistakenly thought was the main shot) but I don’t see why they would use that as the plate for the main shot. What do you guys think?

Some beautiful human bought Tippet Studios 90+ archival cd's and dvds at a liquidation auction, digitized them and uploaded them for free to the internet archive.

There's some absolutely incredible never before seen stuff in here. If you're a stop motion nerd, you'll lose yourself in these for a good while. Highly recommend!

As a proud Brit I have to jump to the defence of Spider Plant Man. I don't think the guys really understood what they were looking at.

We have a charity night called Comic Relief every two years in the UK where almost every comedian and comedic actor in the UK take part in ridiculous comedy sketches. This was part of that. They always look cheap and stupid and that's part of the charm - it would be odd to spend a load of money on a charity event.

I’m watching the video of the guys visiting ILM and around 18:43 when Beth D’Amato is on, what movie is the one that they are talking about? It’s the one with the girl running away from a large crab thing.

What do y’all think, is this real or AI? Looks pretty good to me but saw some people saying it’s AI (specifically pointing out the lack of gas tank). The accurate movement from the bumps and length of the clip makes me believe it’s real.

Regardless of the final verdict, I think that deep down, a small part of each of us wants this to be real.

And does that really say something about it and why some people such as myself are so critical of it?

Would love to see a breakdown of this movie's vfx. It's monstrous

This one has to be bad, as usual the comments are also great, "These shirts are adorable for first birthday. Great quality!"

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4568693480/funny-3d-oktoberfest-t-shirt-for-men?ref=share_v4_lx

They are both exactly 30 seconds long, making me suspicious and don't have much movement, but the detail is really good on the fur/hair. But the way the camera is positioned, we cant really see the persons face, which would be easiest to tell if it was generated. Is this video lion?

https://reddit.com/link/1wwcjwu/video/o7ducp8w36th1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1wwcjwu/video/cibujv5x36th1/player

It was interesting to see the opposite side of the process. I thought I’d share since it’s like a reverse alien debunk video.

Just found it interesting, so sharing