Storyboarding:

Final outcome:
by Olivia Ou
Character design based on found objects:
Initial character design sketches:
Inspirations:
Final character design turnaround:
The image that inspired the following short story:
“Where did they go?”
A short shadow ambles along the pavement, slowly towards the traffic lights where the lights illuminate so bright it blinds me to certain areas of my body. After just one blink, they’re gone. Nowhere to be seen, no noise was made, no one noticed, apart from me of course. Where did they go? In a city like me, the never-ending cacophony overwhelms in a way that anyone can fall through the gaps in the drains, the train tracks, even the potholes in the road and no one will notice. But I want them to know, I noticed.
Where did they go? Did they rise to the horizons and screamed with the crows, or did they drop in a corner of the river and swam with the bottles. Did they look down from the high-rise they lived in and wondered if they jumped, would they land or would they just disappear.