Thom Lu: koodian Shorts - "How to Dispose of Dead Bodies in Outer Space"

Title: Koodian : How To Dispose Dead Bodies To The Outer Space

Date Completed: 2015

Director: Thom Pei Che Lu

Mailing address: 14426 30 ave Surrey, BC, Canada

Email: Tomlu1994@gmail.com

Cell: 7789685511

Film Title: Koodian : How To Dispose Dead Bodies To The Outer Space

Duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds

Media: 2.5D Animation

Film genre: Fantasy, Educational

Film Website: http://thomluthegreat.blogspot.ca/p/koodian-shorts-hidden-in-plain-sight.html

Synopsis:

The Koodian race is hosting an educational video teaching the human how they solve their problem of overpopulation, of dead bodies. The host first starts off by acknowledging their existence and follows a brief history of their civilization. Then he explains their trouble of an overloading amount of dead bodies consuming their living space. The show then enters a lab room where a chain of experiments are taking place. In the lab, the dead koodian bodies are being tested in order to send them off to outer space. Finally at Test 98, where magic happens, and the problem is resolved. Happily ever after.

Formatting:

Screening formats: Quicktime

Frame ratio: 16:9

Frame Rate: 24

Screen resolution: 1080p

Audio: Stereo 48kHz

Film Credits:

Story written by: Thom Pei Che Lu

Story edit: Taseal Ahmed

Director: Thom Pei Che Lu

Narration: Tim Chisholm

Music Composer: Aldon Baker

Sound Design: Aldon Baker

Animation: Thom Pei Che Lu

Biography:

Born on 11 May 1994 in Taipei, Taiwan, and grew up in British Columbia, Canada. Thom studies at Emily Carr University for both 2D and 3D computer animation. He developed a great interest between the two styles and combined their fascination and decided to further develop 2.5D animation. His conceptual aspects cultivated from playful approaches to demonstrate the details within simplicity. His films is uniquely styled and can be recognized by the childlike playful display within his dream-like scenes.

Artistic Statement:

As an artist, I have a long list of what I want to do. For instance, I like writing poems, I enjoy building new stages, sets, and sceneries. And I definitely love to create characters, designing them in a fashion of fantasy with a blend of darkness. At the end, all I wanted was to make my imagination come to live, so I came across to animation, where it is possible. I was first introduced to puppet animation, 2D hand drawn animation, stop motion, then 3D computer animation. Frankly, I had a hard time deciding what to do, what I like most, what best fit me and most important of all, what I am capable of. So I thought to myself, how about creating 2D hand drawn images, designing it like a puppet, and animating it as stop motion within 3D computer space! Though, don’t to get me wrong, the reason why I combined all of those was not because I am an expert in all fields, but really I am just fascinated by all of them and I know one thing for sure, that I have limited resources and skills. Therefore the best I can do is to assemble what I’ve learned within all fields, and “frankenstein” all my skillsets. And I even incorporate my own comic strip, my favourite character, and my dream-like sets into the picture.

The reason why I made this second film right after the completion of “Timmy Tipton” was because I wanted to challenge myself to produce another 2.5D animation film, and also because of great encouragements from Woonam. Therefore, with this film, I wanted to produce it with better quality, better design, and producing it at maximum efficiency. Overall, I enjoy the background story of this film, and I absolutely love the Kangaroo character. And again, I got to learn more than ever during the production process and truly elevated my style for this short compare to Timmy’s. The biggest obstacle during this short animation film was probably the amount of time I had to produce it, and I was really happy to see it reaches such achievement within the short time.

Lastly, the most ambitious part of this project is probably constantly coming up with new ideas to incorporate to each scenery, avoid redundancy and to improve such style that embodies great potentials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HsR1nJ6gCU