Eis Hunde

Here is a sweet animation from German class that me and Brandon made. We were told to work in assigned groups to make a commercial selling a product. My group didn't like my Eis Hunde idea, which roughly translates to ice cream hot dog, and wouldn't go along with it. Brandon saw the potential in Eis Hunde and came over to my house outside of school to help record lines, develop the commercial story line and start the animation. We worked on it for a good three hours that afternoon and let it rest overnight. The next day Brandon and I were both tired and decided that we would go home to sleep and that I would work on the animation over night (as in 8 PM to 4 AM or so). I ended up working on the animation right when I got home at 3 all the way until 11:30 that night.

Today, after it was played in German class, it was a big hit. Everyone was going crazy for Eis Hunde. So I revealed that during lunch I had bought hot dog buns and ice cream at Albertson's and that we could make them right there in class! Oh, you should have seen the glee that spread through the room! I didn't have enough buns for everyone and Kip had enough nerve to throw his away, but I quickly salvaged it from the trash can and treasured it as I ate it. I don't mind that Kip threw it away, he didn't deserve it anyways.

Es war Fantastich.

Heir ist "Eis Hunde:"

Eis Hunde (hi-fi .swf)
Eis Hunde (lo-fi .swf)
Eis Hunde (hi-fi .exe)

Subtitled:

Eis Hunde Subtitled (hi-fi .swf)
Eis Hunde Subtitled (lo-fi .swf)
Eis Hunde Subtitled (hi-fi .exe)

Update: When I was first getting started animating I always wanted to just take a look at other people's work files to see their techniques and how they did different things. For some reason I thought that seeing their work would just make everything fall together in my mind and let me become a genius animator.

Wellllll I never found an animation that would show it's work file. Just in case anyone else has ever wanted to see how another animator gets things done and for some reason they want to look at my work I am posting my flash work file. It includes all of the pictures, sounds, music, tweens and bla bla bla that I used to make the Eis Hunde animation. So download it, tear it up and defile it. Just have a good time.

Eis Hunde.fla 12.6 MB (You will need Macromedia Flash to open this file. Macromedia provides a free 30-day trial version on their site. You should definitely check it out.)

- Steve