He made the first, a 20-minute sci-fi romantic comedy called " The Problem With Fiber Optics," while in film school at Florida State University. And two and a half years later, after working on it whenever he could in between paying jobs, it was finished.įloating is Jardin’s second short film of note. So "Floating" became “a labor of love,” as Jardin calls it. Though the balloon Jardin was able to make didn’t work the way he needed it to for the film, just being able to make it helped him realize he could execute his idea. That changed when he watched a Greyscale Gorilla tutorial on how to make a simple balloon using C4D. “Years ago, I envisioned a simpler version of 'Floating' as a music video, but I didn’t have the technical confidence to do it,” he explains. But to understand how to pull off the 3D character animation and visual effects needed for the film, he spent six months learning Maxon's Cinema 4D and Andersson Technologies' SynthEyes camera tracker. The film’s original score was written and performed by the Welsh band The Joy Formidable, and Jardin co-wrote the script with his friend Matthew Beans, a writer for Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken. “If you keep the characters' gender ambiguous, this could be a love story for any type of couple, or it could be a story of friendship or companionship,” he explains. Though he originally envisioned the story as a balloon-boy-meets-balloon-girl love story, Jardin later came to see the film in more neutral terms. In Greg Jardin’s new short film, "Floating," a lonely person made out of balloons longs to connect with someone else in a city bustling with preoccupied strangers. (Studio featured Jardin's Joey Ramone music video last year.) C4D maker Maxon and writer Meleah Maynard offered StudioDaily a behind-the-scenes look at Jardin's process for compositing the animated figure into live-action environments. Filmmaker Greg Jardin created a short film, "Floating," using Cinema 4D and SynthEyes to insert a CG balloon character into real-world situations.
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