The Match : An animated short film on LGBTQ

A 3D animated express people's views on LGBTQ+ in society, “The Match” takes a presentation through the love story of LGBTQ+ characters with the objectives are 1) to create a 3D animated cartoon media about LGBTQ characters. 2) to assess the quality of this 3D animated short film. 3) to find user’s satisfaction after after watching the media and 4) to find the opinions against LGBTQ+ people. For the tools used in this study, in pre-production stage, it consisted of character design, defining themes, create storyboards. Next was production stage, sculpting, animating and making textures for characters and scenes. In this stage the focus was on create virtual hair using the Xgen technique. Last, get the created video to be clipped, assemble each part together and add sound effects. After that it was brought to evaluate for the quality by 3 experts before testing with samplers who are the undergraduate student of King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi 2021 academic year with the about of 100 persons which is representative of the population of the same age. The result was found that the media has a good quality with the average level of 4.22 of 5.00 and the satisfaction level is very good with the average of 4.55. Last for the opinions against LGBTQ+ after watching, mostly accept the difference and have a better attitude against LGBTQ+

Keywords: 3D animation / Short film / LGBTQ+ / The Match