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Flip - Short Film

Based in my teenage years and the desire to "don't forget where you come from" I wrote and directed this short film. Wonderful artists joined me to make it a reality and we are all very proud of the final product.

Our Story Telling style was heavily inspired by comic panels of course. But more so by the idea of "showing multiple angles of the same event". Daniel Shambo brought this idea to the table and I decided to run with it and heavily root the story around it as well.

 

In a dream like scenario you can indeed "see" multiple angles of the same event, even yourself. This helped add context, interest and also confusion when needed. 

The style of the characters was inspired by Jaime Hewlett's Gorrilaz, I loved how this characters look so urban and casual yet detailed in their own way according to their personalities. On the other hand, the environments were inspired by the art style of Scott Wills on Samurai Jack, were we could have beautiful stylized backgrounds that would not take very long to accomplish and would help us ground the rest of the film's colors and textures.

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Early on in pre-production, I decided to go for a 2d / 3d hybrid style. We did it to accomplish the desired look, but also to better fit our team's limitations. Luckily, Karen Castillo took over the Art Direction and together we figured the best approach to fit both worlds. 

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As you can see above and bellow, all scenes were first modeled in 3d with basic shapes, and they were used both by our 3d animators and our background artist. Finally the final merge and look were accomplished by the incredible work, research and experimentation of Pablo Estrella and Phoebe Britton.

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