A Solid Future

A Solid Future is the short film we made in our final year in UDIT as our graduation project. It has been selected as Winner in Los Angeles Film Awards and AIMAFF and as Semifinalist in Cannes Indie Shorts Awards and Venezia Shorts. 

 

I had the pleasure in taking the role of co-producer, as well as working in severous departments, highlighting BG painting, color script, 2D animation and character and prop design. We took inspiration in the simple and graphic style of UPA animation but we also wanted to go further and create a unique style, adding geometrical figures all over the place to create depth, playing with textures using tradicional-like brush strokes and exaggerating the subjective use of color.  For the characters style, we wanted to make a contrast between the polygonal shapes of the background and the softer and rounder silhouettes of the characters, emphasizing their innocence. I also did a poster exploration for the short film: