Ellie Wakes Up
Ellie, an inconsiderate college girl gets a wake-up call in an adventure-filled dream when an evil version of Sapphire, the roommate she’s been keeping up late with her noisy habit, seeks revenge for being robbed of her sleep.
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Digitally Painted By Luke Gillette
Some Behind The Scenes Stuff
This film began as an assignment combined with a dream I had one night. In the dream, I was running on Tetris-like glowing blocks in a dark void. I expanded the dream into a whole story using original characters I created.
I have my own online video series where I would turn uncommon animals into character designs. My first designs were turning sea creatures into characters. The main two I ended up using in my short film are Ellie the Sea Bunny Slug girl and Sapphire the Blue Sea Dragon Girl. Since I already had designed characters, I chose to simplify and stylize them for animation and make them the featured stars of my film!
Animal → Character Design → Animated Version
Animal → Character Design → Animated Version
After months of work and help from the amazing people credited in the film, we were able to turn the rough storyboards and ideas into fully animated and rendered animation! Soon to become a longer and fuller story in the next coming months.
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