MMP2 - Step By Step

Our MMP2 Step by Step is an animation short film produced during the 3rd and 4th term as the MMP2 project from Marlene Quehenberger, Julian Seyringer, Corinna Sibert and Philip Wersonig, as well as the Audio part of the project being done by Philipp Schinwald. The animation follows an animated puppet through a seemingly abandoned house. As the character delves deeper into the home, they notice more of the weirdness of the environment as well as slowly realising that its their old childhood home. The animation ends with the character having to flee from its environment, and in an effort to hide, restarting the loop that got them there. The core story is inspired by shared childhood experiences, and how they get muddied with time while still being able to affect current life decisions.

1. to display the warped remembering of time, especially of events long passed, as well as an environmental story telling device we set out to fill the room with minute continuity mistakes, that are intending to tell a secondary story arch that adds further context to the primary arch. So, for example the changing of the pictures in the background, the moving of the trash and the toy plane. 2. to display the going deeper into memories aspect, the further down the character goes the more the initial 3D elements are replaced with more 2D elements, peaking with the complete usage of 2D environments in scene 3. 3. the idea of the loop, which on one side is supposed to be a hint so someone has to watch the animation multiple times to spot all the details in it, but also be further reinforced through the usage of the audio track that itself is played in altered forms at various spots of the animation. 4. the character is animated on 2s (12FPS) and the rest of the environment being animated on 1s (24FPS).