After three weeks of storyboarding, puppet making, animating, editing and accidentally shipping microphones to the wrong address, my first short film is finally complete!
The brief was to make it 30 seconds long, keep it lo-fi (deliberately rough around the edges), and to make something that would make people either laugh or learn. Since I'm a bit of a nerd about dog breeds, I made the first in a hypothetical series of educational shorts, which contains a few interesting facts about the Poodle as well as an incredibly cheap and dirty but too-good-to-miss pun at the end.
The thumbnail makes it look very poor quality, but the actual video looks much better. That said, the camera is extremely jerky in places because it was shot on a phone camera with no tripod of any kind, so brace yourself for a motion sickness-like sensation, as well as narration by someone who's very obviously not a professional voice-over artist. But it's all part of the "lo-fi" vibe, so I hope you enjoy it!