final animation
jingle - student animation
"Jingle" is a short animation done for the 2025 fall semester of Gunner School. The animation portrays a sadden Old Man watching old home videos of his lost cat, Jingle. Upon being visited by the manifested memories of Jingle, he realizes that he needs and has the strength to move on from these dark moments.
This project was completed in 2 weeks.
Credits:
Marissa Rakowski - Storyboarding/Animatic, Sound Design, 2D Animator, UI / FX Animation
Johnathan Theobald - 3D Modeling, Lighting, Compositing, Rendering, Environmental Artist
Mackenzie Boerner - 2D Animator, Character Designer
Initial Storyboards
During production, our mentors had requested an alternative to the story to make the message clearer to the audience. Scenes were taken out to meet the deadline, and also shifted to portray the intro scene as the Old Man playing home videos as opposed to a Soap Opera narration.
UI / FX Animation
When designing the overlays for the home-videos, we wanted to simulate a VHS tape recording that was been very dated. So these were made along with a coded countdown timer for the VHS system itself.
2D Animation
Mackenzie spearheaded the animation on this project, but I took over animation the First-Person shots of the animation. Theses were assets created in Adobe Illustrator and animated in After Effects. Jonathan then composited the PNG files into Blender for the final animation.
Jingles - V2 Storyboards
