Lucía Lorenzo
A Solid Future is a 2D-3D animated short film made by a group of students as a graduation project. It has been selected in multiple international festivals such as Los Angeles Film Awards, AIMAFF, WEIRD Market and Cannes Indie Shorts Awards.
I was responsible of the general planification of the project, coordinating departments and distributing tasks. Meanwhile I also helped to develope the visual style of the short film, created color keys for representing key moments in the narrative and painted backgrounds in the established style .
A Solid Future has not been released yet as we are finishing our festival run. However, you can take a look at our instagram account: @asolidfuture.shortfilm
Producer, visual development artist and background painter: Lucía Lorenzo Ceballos
For background painting 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 color script our main reference was The Incredibles ‘ color script. We used geometrical simple shapes to represent characters and the elements on the background in order to prioritize mood and storytelling.
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. On the props we displaced the color outside the line art to create visual interest.
