You Up is a short film about a student and an alien that communicates through letters and seeds. I made this film in 48 hours with two of my friends, and had to use a prop "a love letter" as part of our film as part of the challenge. It began with one person wanted to make a love story and the other person wanted to make something disturbing so thus this film was created. We ended up winning second place out of fifteen films for Dartmouth College's Jones Media Center's 48h video contest.
I did all the animation, as well as the title card intro sequence. For the animation, I tried to come up with a motif with seeds and paper that fit with our film, when she is captured by the alien of growth, reaching up higher as a plant, being reborn after the experience, then falling back to reality at the end. I traditionally animated it and overlayed color effects in After Effects, aiming for an experimental look that fit with the theme.
made by camomile
2024