The teachers at my school have learned that I know animation, so they’ve taken to shoving every presentation they need at me. This one, being a presentation on a poetry competition (seriously, all I can say is “this is the deadline, these are the themes, get working now”) has sparked off a rebellious nerve in my body, causing some unwarranted video of flying penguins to find its way into the choreography, as well as an opportunity to rickroll my whole school!

Anyways, here is the video:

Poetry Anthology Competition from Dion Moult on Vimeo.

Tools used were Blender and Macromedia Flash. Flash was used for the 2D animation, then exported into Blender. Blender was used for the 3D animation, compositing, and the final video sequencing. A tad bit of Audacity was used as well for sound equalizing and syncing, but that didn’t take up a huge role. Total time taken to produce was approximately 10 hours (including rendering time). Oh, and the stand-up poet clip at the end was compulsory to include, and not part of my doing at all.

And yes, I love the fact that I got to rickroll the entire school.

Other credits go to Florentyna Leow, who gave me the quotes and got the videos of penguins and Rick Astley for me.

Oh, and here’s the link to the Vimeo webpage if you’ve got something against me embedding the video in my blog post. The Vimeo page has a link to download the original 221MB mpg file.

Promise a back-to-techy stuff article soon.

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