Lingxiao Fan

Abstract

Christmas Eve is a 3D animated graduate thesis film in length of 3 minutes. It is a story about a young Santa Claus who keeps getting distracted by everything around her and procrastinates from doing her job - preparing gifts for kids. The main character, Santa Claus No.077, who lives in the North Pole Village, has the whole year to prepare gifts for children. However, due to her procrastination, one year has passed and she hasn’t finished her job preparing the gifts on Christmas Eve. Noticing the big day for Santa Clauses is taking place today while reading the newspaper, she has to finish the gifts before the midnight bell strikes and send them to the kid by sunrise. However, things don’t really go as smoothly as planned. No.077 keeps getting distracted by things around her while doing her job. These distractions happen for a reason at first. But as the deadline approaches steadily, No.077 gets distracted more and more easily and starts to behave increasingly further from normal. The software used during the entire production process includes but is not limited to Maya, Zbrush, Houdini, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Premiere. This thesis paper will expand on the inspiration, research, the whole process of the film creation, technical experiments, and the film’s first public screening.

Publication Date

8-13-2024

Document Type

Thesis

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Film and Animation (MFA)

Department, Program, or Center

Film and Animation, School of

College

College of Art and Design

Advisor

Meghdad Asadilari

Advisor/Committee Member

Kevin Bauer

Advisor/Committee Member

Mari Jaye Blanchard

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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