# animate! › Films › Dad’s Dead by Chris Shepherd › tools & processes

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, live action and animation, digital compositing, memory, friendship, violence, peer pressure, psychological thriller, filmmaker, animation director

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**Dad’s Dead** a film by Chris Shepherd

2002, 6 min 36 sec

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#### process summary

Manipulated live-action mutates and combines with ghostly digital animation.

**Dad’s Dead** film, stills and other materials © Chris Shepherd 2003