The Making Of PandaBoy's "This Christmas..."
This Christmas...
GoAnimate.com: This Christmas... by Panda Boy
THE INSPIRATION
Ever since I joined GoAnimate in March (the ninth, I think), and had watched Ryco's Christmas animation:
GoAnimate.com: My holiday message by Ryco
I felt inspired by this animation to create another good animation with a good moral and an inspiring message. I tried to satisfy my longing for this style of animation by creating a biography of one of GoAnimate's Cartoon Classic characters: Jay. I filled this animation with the warming saying to believe in your dreams, and believe it or not it turned out better than any of my other animations at the time and recieved a staff pick and over 400 views.
Biography of Jay: Believe in Your Dreams
Biography of Jay: Believe in Your Dreams by Panda Boy
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Although this still holds to this day the title of my favourite animation of mine that I'm proud of, it didn't quite fit the animation type I was looking for. I kept thinking and racking my brain for hours on end yet still nothing would come to me. I searched through the animations with every tag you could think of but no luck. So, that's when I did what any other animator would have done weeks before: I gave up.
Finally, not even a month ago, I felt like watching the older animations of some of my favourite animators. I checked Gipsy's page to find exactly what I had been looking for months before. Inspired by Forrest Gump's opening credit scene, Gipsy's animation truly impressed me.
GoAnimate.com: A red rose on my bed by gipsy
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I didn't really want the same plot. No, not at all. What I desired was for my animation to have the same sympathetic effective feeling that Gipsy's had had. It was a miracle that I found this at the time of the Christmas contest when it would be most popular and might even win me a prize. I asked Gipsy for permission and of course he said yes.
I immediately got to work and urged myself to stay up for five hours two nights in a row, along with an hour in the day here or there. I finished it in less than 48 hours and ever since it was published it has gained many more views than I expected. That was a really fun animation to create as since I was the one writing it, and doing the voiceovers, I really put my heart into it. I hope you guys enjoy it and have very happy holidays!
This Christmas... 2
GoAnimate.com: This Christmas...2 by Panda Boy
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After the success of Skitzo and This Christmas convinced me that I just had to do a sequel to either of them. Of course I chose Skitzo as I knew immediately that it would be much more popular. I put many hours work into "Skitzo - The Halloween Story" but it just kept crashing and losing it's data, and GoAnimate staff couldn't replace all of it. So I was just as happy switching over to do a second "This Christmas".
While making "This Christmas...2", I wanted to make an animation that made you cry even though you had just already bawled your eyes out at the original. I wanted it to be a touching animation and REALLY make you feel grateful about how nice it is to have food, shelter and the chance to win a DSI in a great contest (wink@GoA Staff).
I decided to make the second saddest type of homeless character besides a poor child: a poor elderly person. But what if you could find out what they wanted for Christmas; and with the help of the GoAnimate studio, give it to them?
This is exactly what I did. I thought, if I were an elderly man, what would I want? I chose a selection of items then narrowed it down to the ones I thought would really add to the animation. It offers an alternate ending to the original This Christmas, because it ends with the old man... Oh, never mind, just watch the animations and see for yourself. ;-)
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