Shadows
The script for this project is powerful, raw, and at the same time tender. We looked to embrace these emotions with an illustrative style that is expressive, charged with powerful imagery as well as bespoke animation to accentuate those key climatic moments. The proposed style’s strength is in expressing emotions.
Style frame animation
Organic shapes and patterns are used in conjunction with bespoke illustrations to emphasize the visceral experiene of these real life moments.
The sample below is a marriage of stillness and motion. These scenes have an immediately striking quality that’ll lure you in upon first glance.
Character development
The artstyle in this project stands in the middle ground between 2D and 3D animation. It provides a unique feel and texture, which is something that viewers would love to watch.
Character animation
To achieve the proposed look as animation, a modified animation pipeline was implemented by introducing a couple new tools. These tools allowed us to create the character animations more efficiently. The illustrations were rigged then imported and animated in After Effects with bespoke controls for facial animation, head turning, and hair dynamics. With this workflow we were able to capture the quality and emotion of the original illustrations.
Animation stills
These are some sample frames from the animation. Each scene aims convey a deep emotional journey, blending strength and vulnerability in a visually compelling narrative.
