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— ROLE

Motion Designer

Storyboard Artist

Animator

Art Director

— TOOLS

After Effects

Illustrator

Photoshop

Procreate

Procreate Dreams

Adobe Audition

— DATE

2024

An animation for a fictional mental health organization, called mind beings, to bring awareness around the risks and challenges of loneliness around newcomers in Vancouver, BC – Canada.

Project developed as my Graduation Project for the Digital Design Program at Vancouver Film School. Collaboration with Holden Zaborniak for sound design.

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Character Design

The idea behind the Hero's head and its weird shape was to show their feelings and emotions with it. The head's shape resembles a sad, a neutral, or a happy mouth curve depending on the mood.

After this concept, I played with some clay to understand more of the volume and angles. Also, did some character turn arounds views of the first look of the Hero. And gathered feedback from friends and my mentor to push the hero's body design to fit better the cool and thoughtful head shape idea.

Character Design – Main Hero

Character Design – Hero’s Family

Pushing the Hero Design Further

Closer to the Final Design

Act 1

Start with a setup of a

character in a repetitive daily routine of loneliness.

Act 2

Got to a point where the character goes through a deep dive into happy memories and reaches present feelings of loneliness, leading
to seeking help.

Act3

After a call, the character gets calmer and realizes that there are other people facing loneliness as well, and initiates
a community gathering to
share meaningful connections.