How to make a short film | MAKING OF MISMATCHED

You might have seen the process of making my short animated film 'mismatched' on tiktok. Well, here they are all together so you can see the entire process of creating a short film!

This film took about a year to complete from october 2021 to november 2022 with a four month break due to an injury.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 3d set
0:50 storyboard
1:45 inspiration
2:39 colour script
3:35 character design
4:57 turnaround
6:00 special poses
8:32 musician
9:27 backgrounds
12:45 rough animation
14:05 clean animation
15:10 colour animation
16:16 compositing
17:15 credits
18:18 sfx design
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Programs: Adobe Photoshop, Animate, After Effects, Media Encoder

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Music in this video:

[mynameismorty]

Can't believe I am such a crybaby when I am doing a webtoon while this women is over here making a 10/10 frame by frame short film by herself.

[CatOnARadio]

Dude I really wish a lot of more people would do a behind the scenes video, because IT'S JUST SO FRICKIN COOL TO SEE SOMEONES PROCESS! I can thoroughly say this was fun to watch.

[NelsonStJames]

We definitely need more of this kind of content. The tools for anybody to get into animation and tell their own stories are more available than ever before. Animation as an artform should be booming now.

[Grace-clmo]

Thank you for making this video, I feel like the world of animation mysteries have been opened up to me! I just finished up a couple of my first 2D animations and they're very messy, but this helped me learn so much and I'm motivated to go back and fix it up over winter break! :)

[scribzscribbles]

I m hoping to making my own film one day you’re a really big inspiration to me and I’ve love following this process!

[novatron]

you are a huge inspiration- in december last year i wanted to make a short film and i blocked out all the months and ideas and the rough story and feel and i was super motivated, and then it came to january and i had scheduled it to be literally writing a soundtrack (never done it before) then storyboarding in march and i just completely gave up. i didn’t know until i watched this how much actually goes into a short film, and i just got a huge boost of motivation to learn more about the process and software and all that stuff so i might be able to try something like this one day!! thank you so much, you are so talented and creative and cool <3

[the_chazz]

okay so i know animation and filmmaking is really difficult and tedious and all that.. i’ve always known that. BUT OMG I DID NOT KNOW IT WAS THIS TEDIOUS- i knew there was a lot but istg i had no idea how much. Newfound respect for animation yet again ✨

[aliza]

Hi! I'm currently making a short film for my senior project and you gave me SO MUCH INSIGHT into the process. I already knew it wasn't going to be easy, but I really appreciate you posting this 😭(it's 12 in the morning and I'm having an existential crisis over how this humbled me)

[JuXuS]

as a 3d guy since 2002 i find your work allready incredible. documenting it this way is just twice the work. respect!

[LucasTbooker]

I’ve just graduated in 3D Animation and one I have to say is: you’re a warrior. I have no patience to do an entire animation production right now 😂

[theseanwardshow]

I wish this was uploaded as a vertical instead of the side boxes! But great inspiration here

[forzenfukuroanimations]

Damn, this is a perfect way to show the process of animation! This is exactly what I have been trying to look for! I swear there needs to be more videos like these around in the media. Seeing the behind the scenes is exceeding-ling important! O_O thank you so much for making this! Your whole process is GOD TEAR. How long did this animation take overall!??

[VioAnimation]

Wow the thorough process and all the thinking even has ME overwhelmed, great job at doing all of that and finishing!!

[rachelmckelvey]

I'm ending my sophomore year of college soon, and honestly, I've really been struggling to keep up with the work for my sophomore film and have such a straightforward and disciplined pipeline like this, but watching this gives me some motivation and I just wanna say thank you for such awesome content and such great work!

[marcyroblox_edits]

I respect the effort and dedicatation you did. It really is just splendid to watch the behind the scenes. But not just you, so many other animators out there and just artist themselves, are just mad respect.

[shellyeditsalot]

this was amazing! it's so wonderful to see you create a full body of work (BTS, an art book, and the actual short film)! this is the type of thing i dream of! finding the time to make something for yourself... is quite precious ✨💅 now, to watch your short film for the millionth time! 😂

[lundulaproductions]

Wow, I'm glad this video appeared on my home page in the recommendations. It's always intriguing to see the creative process and behind the scenes of a film. I love animation and film and my ultimate goal is to one day start my own animation film production company and produce feature films so I would love to start making animations to get my name out there. I can see the hard work and passion that was put into this. The fact you did that all by yourself is something that should be applauded for. I'll be honest, the process does look tedious and a lot of work but that's what happens when you work on something big. I'll watch your film now that I've seen this, but this was such an inspiring and interesting video. Great work!!

[SmokeandSpirit]

Ive gotta imagine you put over 80 hours into all the pre-animation prep for the film. Crazy how much work you but into conceptualization. It's pretty damn sharp by the end though no doubt.

Anyways, Its cool to see your process. Really shows just how much you pour into any project, and how much you invest in learning new things along the way. Its such an arduous journey.

I've really been considering dabbling in some short form special effect animations to take my drawings to the next level. I'll definitely be starting small 😅

[zinwho]

I watched this like a million times over and over. You’re inspiring me to make one! Working on the storyboard right now!

[Firegirlable]

I'm slowly getting back into animation and this video was the first one that popped up in my search. This was so cool to see someone else's creative process. I've even added some of your steps in to my own process.