Alan The Infinite | Stop-Motion Short Film about Supernatural Forces in the Workplace

On his first day on the job, Alan mistakenly unleashes a cosmic force in the office.

Alan the Infinite
Dir. Dan Ojari & Mikey Please

Alan is excited! It’s his first day at Lamin’8 – a stale, grey, humdrum lamination company. Oh boy! If he buckles up, stays focused and impresses Gary, his unhinged boss, this might just be a job for life. Excellent! But all is not quite as it seems, and when Alan accidentally unleashes cosmic, supernatural forces into the office, he realizes that fitting in at Lamin’8 is going to be infinitely trickier than he ever could have dreamed.

"Rescued from what the filmmakers describe as “internet cold storage”, today’s featured short is an unexpected treat. From S/W alum Dan Ojari (Slow Derek) and prior “Short of the Year” winner Mikey Please (The Eagleman Stag) comes a film we weren’t sure we’d see again—a 2019 stop-motion proof-of-concept that has languished in the uncaring void known as “development” for going on five years." - S/W Curator, Jason Sondhi

*CAST + CREW*

ALAN - Dan Ojari
GARY - Baker Terry
PREA - Theodora van Der Beek
SUSAN - Jessica Rayner
NEIL - Rob Carter
SCIENTIST - Elliot Dear

Written & Directed by - Mikey Please & Dan Ojari
Produced by - Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, Alex Holberton & Kev Harwood
Executive Producers - Mikey Please & Dan Ojari, James Stevenson Bretton, Tom Stuart & Bart Yates
Music by - Ben Please & Beth Porter @ The Bookshop band
Sound Design - Adam Janota Bzowski, Ben Please & Dan Ojari
Sound Mastering - Simon Harris @ Offset
DOP - Simon Paul
Camera Assistant - Giles Warner
Additional lighting - Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, Peter Elmore & Max Halstead
Lead Animators - Andy Biddle, Dan Gill, Steve Warne, Anthony Farquhar Smith, Mikey Please & Dan Ojari
Animators - James Carlisle, Luke George, Rachael Olga, Nick Black & Angie Palethorpe
Puppet Design - Mikey Please
Puppet Fabrication - Mikey Please, Adeena Grub, Rosie Tonkin & Thomas O’Meara
Rigging - Robin Jackson
Crowd Puppets design and fabrication - Adeena Grub and Natasha Wigoder
Set Design - Dan Ojari
Art Direction - Dan Ojari, Emma Rose & Kat Simpson
Modelmakers-
Katy Haggerty-Marks, Becky Weston, Rachael Olga, Nick Black, Luke George, Campbell Hartley, Emily Suvanvej, Millie Tennant, Adeena Grubb, Antonia Trister, Jack Pratt, Rebecca Howell, Steph Marshall, Natasha Wigoder, Beatriz Dominguez, Sofia Rodriguez Serrano, Maria Crus, Mireia Mendez & Brin Frost
2D facial Animation - Mikey Please Additional 2D - Mathias Sgard & Elliot Dear
Lead Compositor - Mikey Please
Additional compositing - Mathias Sgard, Dan Ojari, Simone Ghilardoti & Tom Fisher
Grade - Elroy Gaskin-Payne @ Onsight
Post Production Supervisor - Benjamin Lole Post Production Manager - Mira Valcheva Post Production Creative Supervisor - Quentin Vien 3D Modelling - Lisa George-Gilroy
Rig Removal & 3D facial tracking - Elipse FX Production Support - Ali Albion
Recording Engineer - Robert Frank Hunter Behind The Scenes Film - Joseph Eckworth
THANK YOU - Charlie Perkins, Matt Day, David Cann, David Lupsein, David Rodger, Katie-Mae Griffith, Lydia Larson, Cross Street Studios, Clapham Road Studios
A Parabella Studios & Blink Industries Film
©2024

Reproduced on this channel with the permission of the filmmakers.

[asallen]

Just lovely. Can’t wait to watch the full series on Netflix one day 😉 Bravo Mikey & Dan 👏

[tcampbell]

'I wonder if you can do two colours at once' god the hours i spend trying to pull off this remarkable feat!

[mr.factory]

i really like this one. feels like a pilot to a whole series

[proanimali]

Don't we all wish to unleash some cosmic force in the workplace? Nice film. I wish Alan all the best!

[LemonCurry.]

setting and atmosphere feels familiar and new at the same time :)

[charlesthomas]

This short film is a masterpiece, sadly it gets overshadowed by other popular stuff...

But hey, maybe through time it will get famous. You know what they say: "Patience is the virtue"

[dumbcontent]

Reminds me of all the highest budget stop motion films

[therealwillsmith]

cool animation, I wanted to see more of where it was going
but too much fart humor :l