The Old Marigold Theater (2017)
A whimsical point-and-click environment, preserved in glorious 480p
The only known video recording to still exist of an interactive multimedia project I made using Adobe Animate and Photoshop. Originally a point and click, this is merely a screen recording of me back in 2017 clicking around the environment. It used to have audio (characteristic grunts in place of dialogue, ambient sounds, etc.) but that has since been lost to time.
The text at the end reads:
The Old Marigold Theatre is an interactive, digital environment inspired by the works of Sylvain Chomet, George Melies, and Wes Anderson.
The theatre takes place in a whimsical, surrealist world where fantastical creatures (including dragons, apes, and moom men) come from near and far to watch the grand performance of a man hunched over a desk, clicking a single key on a typewriter at a slow pace.
The dissonance between the fantastical and the mundane is the focal point of this piece, and was created using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects by Gage Smith.