{"id":16119,"date":"2026-11-09T20:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T01:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/?p=16119"},"modified":"2026-11-09T20:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T01:23:34","slug":"2d-jack-arey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd343\/2d-jack-arey\/","title":{"rendered":"2d &#8211; Jack Arey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Stairs in the Woods\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/16NIxc0ShYc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video is a found footage style horror short about a hiker who encounters a mysterious radio station and set of stairs in the woods. My primary goal with this project was to emulate the style of creators like Kane Pixels and create an environment of rising suspense, with moments of humor thrown in as well. Overall I feel the project was quite successful and I learned a lot of new techniques through the process of creating it.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite moments from the filming of this project are probably the early sections leading up to the radio segment. I think I did a good job in a very short period of time of characterizing my main character &#8220;Chris.&#8221; He&#8217;s meant to be annoying but endearingly naive in that classic horror movie character way that makes you hate him but also care about his safety. I also really enjoy mixing sort of goofy or satirical elements with a horror\/suspense environment and I think this section did that well.<\/p>\n<p>If I had more time with this project I would have definitely tried to refine the clarity of the story a bit more and made the transitions between certain moments a bit more clear. I&#8217;ve been so busy lately that I didn&#8217;t have enough time to really complete this project to its fullest potential, but I do feel that I succeeded in my main storytelling goals of this project. I think I did a good job, for example, at giving the viewer just enough information to maintain suspense and left things open ended enough by the end to maintain the aspects of mystery. All of the filming for this project was done in one day, and limitations of my computer&#8217;s hardware made the VFX more limited in the time frame I had than I was hoping, but through the process of this project I learned a lot of new skills in DaVinci and Blender that I think would help me in the future on a longer project. In some ways, the limitations of time, my skills, and hardware made this project a lot more fun because I had to figure out how to tell this story and create an environment with limited resources. The audio design of this project is probably the element I&#8217;m most happy with. Some of the balancing isn&#8217;t perfect but I put a lot of effort into it and I think it shapes the environment really well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video is a found footage style horror short about a hiker who encounters a mysterious radio station and set of stairs in the woods. 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