If you can't understand what the video is saying, my apologies. English subtitles are available on the YouTube upload: https://youtu.be/TSpVYQVMw7g

Well, here it is. After a month of writing, storyboarding, animating, and editing, my submission for Shrekfest 2022 is finally complete. Once I saw the hilarious fake A.I. generated script of Shrek by the great Keaton Patti in a book he published, I just knew I had to make an epic video based on it. Unlike the submission I made last year, I was able to retain most of my original vision in this final product.

This is probably the most advanced animation project I've ever worked on. I finally 2D animated a walk cycle for the first time with Shrek, and perfected my cel shaded CG approach with Donkey and the Gingerbread Man. I did end up having to cut some corners as the deadline approached, such as animating Rumpelstiltskin as an unedited PNG, but I still believe this video represents the peak of my animation skills so far.

To stick with the A.I. generated theme, I used a lot of different websites, such as uberduck.ai for the voices of all the characters, makesweet.com for the opening animation, tokkingheads.com for the deepfaked image of the magic mirror, and DALL-E Mini for the backgrounds and certain images such as the realistic Shrek closeup and the dragon donkey. You can find the latter on this website: https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini

As for the music, I used four tracks from the YouTube audio library, as well as two excerpts from Shrek but the ENTIRE MOVIE is converted to MIDI, which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcehaxidJZk

For more information on Shrekfest visit: https://www.the3gi.com/shrekfest.html