“Forest Story” Animated Short Film - Behind the Scene - Animatic, Storyboard, Character Design, Script (2022-2023)
Post-production process of the university graduation film “Forest Story”, the post-production stage is complete, currently the production stage is still on-going.
This short animated film is directed, written, designed and animated by me. The animatic editing and voiceovers were done in Adobe Premiere Pro with assistance of royalty free audios.
Click below to learn more about the project behind-the-scene to see the all the character designs, dialogue script, storyboards, keyframes and poster design.
“Forest Story: Prologue” - Children Book and Short Interactive Comic (2022)
(For full interactive and immersive experience, download below)
These are the rough drafts of prologue of the “Forest Story.”
The story was originally designed to be in three separate parts, the children’s book as the initial prologue and what the story was based off, the comic series which is the largest chunk of the story and the short animation, showing the climax battle. The picture book shows that there was originally to be another character which was supposed to be the main character in the interactive comic series however, as development progressed, the story steered away from a lone ninja for revenge toward more the battle and struggle of the forest as a whole.
The roughs for the picture book was done traditionally with paper and pencil. The interactive comic rough was done in Clip Studio Paint with the interaction delivered through Microsoft Powerpoint.
You can download the Powerpoint comic file (read-only) below for full interactive experience.
“Last Year” - Short One-shot Manga (2021)
It was a big moment for all of us back then. Some of us students have been in the school for even 12 years, some of us only know that place out of the entire world, I was one of those someone. The short comic series serve as a commemoration of us graduating and moving on from our very way of life for the past decade into the real world. The decision to genderbent everyone was to make it more unique and in this artstyle, girls will allow for more creative designs when everyone is in uniform. It was also a challenge to design real life guys into girls reflecting their personalities through the designs represented in the comic series. Of course, it also fits well with the demographic of this short skit manga. The interesting character designs that reflected each of the friends in real life along with hilarious actual stories greatly allow us to archive these funny memories we had together. Feel free to click below to read
I co-authored this skit manga with my best friend. He was responsible for the cover design both front and back along with parts of the story while all art, character designs, storyboarding and parts of story was done by me. This manga was done within Clip Studio Paint.