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Character Design
I came up with this character design a year in advance for a different concept. Because of this design's focus on nature and my desire to practice woods/forest environments, I made the film with this character design in mind.
Beatboards
The beatboards used to generally block out the final version of the film. I used the boards to think through my backgrounds as much as possible and tried to focus on compelling compositions that would flow well between each other. Once they were completed, I made a color test using one of the boards as a framework.
The goals of the color test were to find a color palette for the film that would look non-digital and map out how lighting and shading should work on this film.
With my colors established, I began work on an animatic and my backgrounds, as well as my sound design. For this, I recorded, edited, and arranged sounds in ways that could fit the film, and the results can be heard in the final product.
Backgrounds
The backgrounds for this piece were made in Photoshop. Individual components of the environments were then exported and reassembled in After Effects.
