Wednesday, April 2, 2008

First little run test

OH GOD WHAT IS SHE RUNNING FROM!?

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Artist's Statement [first draft]

Imagination is a whimsical hand-drawn animated short about the innocence of children and where their priorities really lie when they discover a gift they're not ready for. What begins as a simple re-imagining of a childhood game becomes much more, and before long a battle of imaginations leads the children to discover that simple things are best after all.

The children are hand-drawn in the traditional style and the environments are digital watercolor sets with a focus on simplicity; only large, important objects are rendered, leaving the rest a light wash of color. This helps push the focus to the characters, and away from anything else that might distract the viewer.

All characters and settings were created in Adobe Photoshop, with final compositing and secondary character tweens added in Adobe After Effects.