This is the graduation project I realized for NABA in December 2020 with two classmates. We wanted to explore not only different techniques but also the psychology of a girl with difficulties in relating with others. We decided to propose videogames and an "escape world" as a solution to create boundaries instead of making it the disfunctional element.

We designed the story to be a three step journey to self acceptance and compromise between one's flaws and the desire of change, helped by three famous menthors with different perspectives, lives and suggestions for her.

I made the storyboard of this not-so-short movie and collaborated in modelling some assets, but my main work was on animation of Ambra's room scene and Alice's scene and on rigging: I rigged both the 3D characters and textured 3D Ambra.

For Alice's scene I used Adobe Animate as a self-taught program and decided not to use a rig but instead the morphing function to keep it all smoother.

We used many different programmes to realize this short movie to best suite our needs and desires. We wanted animation in immaginary worlds to be more and more fluid, as a proof of Ambra's improvement. That's why we used only main poses for the first scene with Athena, made in Photoshop, more interpolation for the second one, with Virgil being more articulated, and a complete fluidity in Alice's scene, using still drawings to enhace the comical effect as a counterpart to the fluid animation.

It was a real challenge to propose such a complex story and explore so many different techniques, but for sure at the end of the production we learned and tested many, many different tools and options. We were very satisfied with the journey which took us there and of what we learnt while producing this movie.

As one year is passed form this production, for sure there are things we can now do better, but I believe this is still a main result in our path and from here we will work to improve and get better at what we like.