HALF EMPTY
An experimental 2D animated short film about gender, mental health, and getting yourself help.
Set to the song "Simplest Words" by the Narcissist Cookbook.
This is the making of my short film “Half Empty’ coming out Mid-November.
PREPRODUCTION
Organization was key in this production. It was all volunteer based and I had some amazing artists offer their time! That time needed to be honored and I wanted to set me and my team up for success.
SHOT LIST
Keeping shots organized was imperative to keeping production running smoothly.
I made this spreadsheet to keep me and my crew up to speed. Here’s a snapshot of what the film looked like Mid-Production.
All of the buttons are drop downs for ease of production tracking. There’s also a tracker at the bottom to see how far along each part of the pipeline was. Each scene was color coded along with each part of the pipeline. Color coding spreadsheets is one of my new favorite hobbies!
CONCEPT ART
BACKGROUND LAYOUT
STORYBOARD
LAYOUT
Storyboards were done extremely quickly to get the vague idea out and nothing more. Layouts were imperative in making sure everything was on model.
I handled all layouts for background artists. I also did all of the storyboards, but those aren’t as pretty.
Final backgrounds are by Braziliancat2015 (Top) and Hamza Chorfa (Bottom).
FINAL
ANIMATION LAYOUT
LAYOUT
ROUGH
I handled all layouts for animators. Since storyboards we’re so rough, I was the only one with the full vision in my head so I figured kill two bird with one stone. Handling layouts as on model keys for my animators made sure they knew what the character should look like and also the general timing of the scene. The music I chose heavily defined the movement of this piece and I really wanted to make sure we were sticking to it! I handled layouts for the entire film.
Top scene was roughed by Ethan Lamb and clean up was done by Peige Duan.
Bottom scene was roughed by Jay Wijntje and clean up was done by Mariana Maya Clavijo.
CLEAN & COLOR
ROUGH ANIMATION
These we’re shots I animated myself.
CLEAN UP ANIMATION
These were shots I cleaned up myself. Rough animation was done by Francisco Mendoza Barron.
COMPOSITING
Coming soon!