OFoW 2020: "Beyond the Sea" by Gabriel Garrido Figueroa
Channel: Logik Live
Date: 06/10/2020

Synopsis:  

A cute girl takes us into a fantastic underwater world, where she lives one of her many adventures, however this time she will face her greatest fear ... All this happening in the amazing imagination of my goddaughter.  

Inspiration: 

When this contest was launched, I thought about various ideas on the topic "Joy", but none of them convinced me, so I decided not to participate in it. However, a few days later I took a different approach from a more personal point of view and then everything started to make sense. I asked myself ... What place gives me joy, enjoyment, fun and disconnection? The answer ... The Sea. 

I remembered that years ago, the great Ivar Beer, shared the Mandelbox shaders. I did a couple of tests and I sent him a frame called “Diving with Ivar”, so I already had my main background quite resolved. 

The idea of the character came from a drawing that I saw in the library. A kid plunging into the sea from a book, making a call to dive into books ... that was great! 

 The process: 

 I made a storyboard and then an animatic to size the project, establish a length for each shot making sure that it was within the 30 second limit. The challenge was to create and bring the character to life, which took me a few days to define. While I sketched and went back to study the movements of the cartoon characters I moved forward with the fish, the backgrounds, the shark, the final look, etc. 

When the girl and her expressions were created the next step was to do a setup for her in order to have a quick way to animate. I was always careful to keep the batch as light as possible. 

I would like to thank my dear friend @thebongman for his magnificent soundtrack. 

During the last month, I learned a lot of things and technics but above all in these difficult times, imagination is the best tool to escape from the reality we live in. 

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