Santa's Decorating Machine Animation

Santa gives his wife a decorating machine that she uses to decorate their house. While they are away, Rudolph and the Elf put their own decorating plans into action.

This is an animation about Christmas that started as a projection mapping project but ended up as a simple animation. The building you see is the Domhuset (Court House) from Copenhagen, Denmark and is the canvas for this animation. It is a team project, so we each did some of drawings, character designs, animations and sound editing and put them all together to form this short and funny animation. We used After Effects, Photoshop, Audible and good old fashioned pencil on paper and a lot of brainstorming, to create this project. The style we chose for the characters and the decorations is japanese chibi or kawaii.

Logline:

Santa gives his wife a decorating machine that she uses to decorate their house.
While they are away, Rudolph and the Elf put their own decorating plans into action.

Treatment:

MRS. CLAUS is sweeping the floor in the attic. SANTA CLAUS appears and offers her a decorating machine as a Christmas present. She loves the gift, and uses it to decorate their house, happily. Satisfied with new decorations, they go downstairs.

While they are away, RUDOLPH and THE ELF, who have been hiding behind a pile of presents, appear in the attic. Taking turns, they start clicking buttons on the machine, messing with Mrs. Claus's decorations. As they get carried away trying out their own ideas, they start banging on the buttons too hard, breaking the machine.

Santa comes up to the attic and realises what they've done. He gets angry at them, and they run away. Mrs. Claus also arrives, and thinks Santa is responsible for broken machine. She is furious and starts chasing him around the house, with her broom.

Rudolph and the Elf feel bad about what they've done. They find the instructions to how to fix the machine and offer Mrs. Claus flowers as an apology. All is forgiven, decorations are fixed, and everyone is happy again.

Hope you enjoy it!