The Vera Crystal

Christmas 2009

A Firm Love Defines a Strong Young Woman

Hola! Welcome to what is now the preproduction page for The Vera Crystal! TVC will be my second experiment in computer animation using the same technologies that brought you Peabo. Enjoy the concept art that I made and look forward to seeing updates and eventually the entire first act of my most challenging project yet!

These are the first eight shots

No sound effects yet, but this is what I have fully composited so far. A good 45 second chunk of a story that needs a $100 million budget and 119 more minutes to be told. It is ok though, perhaps Tim Burton will come along and discover in me what he saw in Shane Acker.

Second shot featuring super cool lighting

This is the first nCloth test, strong stuff

Treatment

Download Act I of the Treatment and I bet you'll think it is epic!

Storyboards

Character Design and Environments

For this short there is a relatively large cast. Four characters in the first act and for one dude to make them come alive, I think that is a lot. The characters are; Sophia, the eldest daughter and mother figure. Lisa, the youngest and most adventurous daughter. Sonyeah, who is a mirror image of his sister Lisa, and finally the mother of the family who has been bed ridden with a terrible illness for years.