From one island to another

A clay stop-motion film introducing Vefskólinn to the teachers of I.E.S. El Rincón during Tækniskólinn's international week: our own LMS on the Isard server at El Rincón, Tibu's GitHub guide, and what the partnership has given us. This is the storyboard pass — real clay renders, rough animation, real narration and music. Nothing is rendered to video yet.

Sculpting the sets…
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The animatic plays the actual render engine live in your browser, moving 12 poses a second like hand-animated clay. If it stutters, the first pass through each shot is building the set; the second pass is smooth.

Scenes

Cast

Sculpted from the hero video and your photos. Tell me anything that's off — hair, beard, glasses, clothes — and I'll re-sculpt.

Narrator voice

The film uses Emma (American). Here is the line with the Icelandic names in other voices. The names are respelled so an English voice gets close: Vef-skoh-linn, Tike-nee-skoh-linn, El Rin-kon, Tee-boo.

Your call

  1. Length. It runs 1:46, longer than the 90 s we aimed for. I can cut it to ~90 s by dropping the snow exterior (s2) and the café toast (s7), or keep it — I'd keep it, the pace is calm and the teachers are reading English subtitles.
  2. Subtitles. Burned-in English subtitles help a Spanish-speaking room follow a British voice. Recommended: keep them. Or Spanish subtitles instead?
  3. Nira. The narration says "Tibu, Alberto and Nira keep it running", but I have no picture of Nira, so she is not on screen. Describe her (or send a photo) and I'll sculpt her for the server scene — or I can drop her name from the line.
  4. The school sign. El Rincón's sign is shown as a blue tile with a white swoosh, as in the hero video. Good, or would you rather not imitate it?
  5. The ending. Should the last card add the Erasmus+ line ("Co-funded by the European Union") or the Vefskólinn / El Rincón logos?
  6. Voice. Ryan, or one of the alternatives above?

Render cost: each frame is one Three.js render with soft shadows; only 12 different poses per second, so the 1:46 film is ~1,270 unique frames. I'll measure the speed on your laptop before the full render and keep it light (no extra post-processing).