Shrodinger's cat is a micro-short film. By micro-short, I mean it is an idea I wanted to animate, but didn't want to flesh out a proper story with which to wrap it into. I had this idea while I was at work and I suddenly knew I had to animate it. To see it in true HD, follow the link to vimeo. There is audio, please adjust your speakers if necessary.
The main character, Mancandy, was created by Bassam Kurdali and can be downloaded from his website.
Watch the short first, then check these tidbits out:
On Time Required
Production started on 28 June 2007 and finished on 19 July 2007. That comes out to 22 days. That includes creating the story, animation, rendering, and post production. I also took an entire week off during that time.
On Learned Skills
I am still learning intermediate and advanced techniques in Blender and here are some of the skills I learned or refined:
NLA Editor
Sequence Editor
Lighting
Basic Compositing
Software Used in the Making of "Shrodinger's Cat"
Blender 2.43/2.44
3D modeling software used to create the computer animation. It was entirely created with Blender 2.44, but some of the render machines was running 2.43.
Inkscape
SVG drawing software used to create the schematic
Cinelerra
Video editing software used to assemble the final video film
DrQueue
Render farm management software used to distribute the rendering of the film's frames to my computers, thus improving render times.
Audacity
Used to record the voiceover
Fedora 7
Operating system upon which all of the animation was created. Also used as a render node.
Ubuntu
Used as a render node.
freeBSD
Operating system upon which some of the render nodes ran.
Debian GNU/Linux
Operating system upon which one of render nodes.
Microsoft Windows
Operating system upon which one of the render nodes ran.
"Shrodinger's Cat" is copyrighted (C)2007 to drop the bomb productions, Eric Mesa's studio. However, within his power of copyright, Eric Mesa licenses "Shrodinger's Cat" under the Creative Commons ShareAlike-Attribute-NoCommercial License. This means you are free to copy and share this movie with as many people as you want. In fact, I encourage it - it will make me more famous. q:o)
However, this license does not put the work into the Public Domain, you must follow the terms of the license. ShareAlike means that if you make a derivative work based upon my movie (colloquially known as a mashup) you must also share that work under the same license. No taking advantage of my sharing and then not sharing yourself. Attribution means that you must always credit me as the creator of "Shrondinger's Cat". If you change it, you are entitled to credit yourself, but you must credit me as the provider of the original footage. Finally, NoCommercial - it's pretty simple. You are not allowed to make money off of this short film. You may give it away for free, but you may not make money. If you wish to make money off the film, you may contact me and we can arrange proper terms.
