"Boone" is a short student film produced at SCAD during the Fall of 2022. Below, I documented each element of production I was involved in in chronological order.

1: Pre-production

After the Director's initial pitch, I quickly expressed interest in helping with the storyboards, and also broadly help as a producer for the film. Working closely with her, and after many back-and-forths with everyone in the crew, this is what the storyboards for the section I worked on looked like:
Because we had both 2D and 3D animators in our crew, we opted for a mixed visual style: the environments and the young boy character will be in 3D, and the little ghost 2D. Since work on the storyboards was done, the next task I took on was figuring out how the ghost would look like in movement.

2: Production

After some brainstorming, I worked on this quick demonstration on a possible approach for the ghost's animation:
As he is a very small, round, and cute character, I felt it important to make his animation feel lively and bouncy. Everyone in the team was happy with how my demo looked like, so I was put in charge of the rough animation for all shots where the ghost is present. After I finished the roughs, I helped the other animators on the clean-up process.

You can watch the finished film by clicking the image below!

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Thank you for reading

ⓒ Hugo Vasgestian dos Santos, 2024.