Background

I am a big fan of oneliners and standup comedy in general. For a while I wanted to write a standup joke and create it in animation. Inspired by the great work of Blink My Brain and the humor of Monty Python, I stylized it with cutout, choppy with collage elements.

Preliminary sketches and designs

style frames

Process and tools

I filmed myself in different poses

• Used a combination of stock photos (woman’s face, apartment)

• Midjourney AI (My partment, mermaid body, Mermaid sunglasses, guest’s fish head and turtle head, T-shirts)

• Unsplash photos (The two party guests) plus Midjourney for their faces

• My own photos for the jellyfish on the T-shirt

• Shutterstock for the woman’s face

• D-ID app to generate the woman’s speech (“Please bring something sea Related”)

• Loopflow for the jellyfish motion on the shirt

• Rubberhose 3 as well as other rigging techniques to rig the mermaid