This production still is very fond to me. Back in 2008 I was a young artist learning the animation ways. During my freshmen year I made two friendships that would last a life time. The end of the semester had come but me and my two new friends wanted to continue working. We had more ideas then we could ever produce and an endless amount of enthusiasm.

There was a contest for etsy.com we had heard of and the theme was “hand made feel". Naturally we decided to produce a contest entry and try our luck at winning. It took us (the trifecta, what we ended up calling the group) roughly 2-3months to write design and produce.

Needless to say we didnt win the contest, however we again something way more valuable, experience and a short animation. The short and it is short, roughly 40sec in length was fully animated but never colored.

I think I still have the drawings somewhere, I have to file also buried away in on old used drive somewhere. It so cool to see pictures like this after such a long time. This was the first group project I was a part of, it lead to years of collaboration with friends in producing short animation, for freelance and for pleasure.

Have you ever worked on group projects? Have they lead to something larger? I believe the trifecta will reunite one day. Our story has not ended only momentarily paused.