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Hechingen Film /  by James Whitaker

I'm delighted to present a short film that I've been working on recently - Hechingen Studio

Hope you enjoy it!

Someone once said to me that if you are going to make a jeans company concentrate on making a really good pair of jeans before you start selling t-shirts. I thought it was pretty good advice so I've been concentrating on stills up to now, making sure that they are as seductive and polished as can be. However when I was an undergraduate at uni I was a bit of a geek and used to teach animation on the post-graduate course. A couple of years ago I made a short film for fun with my brother and a bunch of friends and it went on to win a film festival in Canada. So we know a bit about making nice films. We approached this film in the same fashion as we would approach a live footage piece, working up a storyboard and then animatic, before editing and fine-tuning the shots, then we worked up the animation to what you see above.

For the geeky amongst you all animation and modelling was done in 3DS Max, rendering with VRay and post-production in Adobe. Rebus Farm was used to outsource some of the number crunching and the music was found on Musicbed. If you'd like to know any more feel free to ask in the comments section below.

You can read more about the building in this article on Dezeen.

Winner of best film at Shorts non stop /  by James Whitaker

I’ve just heard that Snapshot has won a short film competition in Canada - ShortsNonStop!

Some terrific news after everyone’s hard work!

For those of you who don’t know, Snapshot was my first short film which I made last year with a group of friends. It was written by my brother Thom and his creative partner Danielle, the set was built by my friend Jamie Hind at Cloud and Horse and the sound was edited together by the great people at Jungle Studios.

“We follow the journey of two couples as they get a snapshot that’ll last forever.”

Portobello Film Festival 2010, ShortsNonStop 2010, London Short Film Festival 2011

Snapshot starred Stephanie Wilson, Richard Mason, Becca Laidler and Chris Luca

Music by Dan Neale

Sound recorded by Dominic Humphrey

Sound edited by Dominic Dew

Set Constructed by Jamie Hind

Location managed by Michael Eichler

Screenplay by Thom Whitaker and Danielle Noel

Produced by James Whitaker, Thom Whitaker, Danielle Noel and Dominic Humphrey

Directed by James Whitaker