This is a compilation of my best drawings (from both storyboards and concept art) within the several works published in this portfolio so far.
These drawings and animatics are the ones that better demonstrate my visual storytelling, staging and draftsmanship capabilities.
If you wish to see an item's project page to find out more about it, click on its title, and you'll be taken to its page, which contains all the other items associated with it.
1. Storyboard - Conclave / Wizard Gathering (College)
2. Animatic clips - A Helping Hoot (College)
3. Concept Art and pre-production sketches - A Helping Hoot (College)
4. Help with storyboard and camera placement - Ghiocel
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1. Storyboard - Conclave / Wizard Gathering (College) (link not yet available)
1. Storyboard - Conclave / Wizard Gathering (College) (link not yet available)
Four old wizards gather inside a castle to have a mysterious and important meeting. Soon, the castle starts to collapse, and they need to escape before it's too late.
First drawing made. Not an actual storyboard, but a sketch of a possible joke my classmates and I thought out for the film, if it was an animation. While trying to get out of the collapsing castle, one of the wizards has frozen the floor, to allow them to accelerate by skating their way out. One of them takes that opportunity to perform some mid-air moves.
1. Outside view of the castle the meeting is taking place.
5. The wizards look silently and suspiciously at each other.
6. One of the wizards suddenly gets up, raising his hand and shouting. He's about to do something extreme.
7. The wizard aggressively lays four game cards on the table.
8.
"Huh-huh-huh, I win!"
"By my beard!"
9. Argument ensues. The three remaining wizards can't stand losing and accuse the winner of cheating.
10. One of the wizards threatens to cast a spell on the next one who dares to ruin his game.
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The characters are drawn in a less detailed way than in the final animation, in order to save time while drawing the storyboard.
Both the man and the owl are voiced by me.
Both the man and the owl are voiced by me.
Clip from the final version of the story
Clip showing an early version of the story, in which the owl talked and had a different design
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Pre-production sketches for the man and his flashlight
Studies of the man's head and face shape
The man's final design, in a pose he makes during the short
The owl's final design, its pre-production sketches, expression sheet and night/day palette comparison
The owl's early design
Tree studies and silhouettes
Early pre-production sketch, in which the man and the owl have a conversation.
Later pre-production sketch, in which the owl is no longer a talking one, and the man is struggling to understand what it's trying to tell him.
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POV of the lead character, as she enters a room (with transparency)
Lead character next to bed (with transparency)
First shot, in which the camera starts on the left, and pans to the right.
The wind blows before the camera starts moving.
General shot - full picture caught by the camera.
