remarkably bright creatures

A self-initiated project inspired by Shelby Van Pelt’s heartwarming story about a woman’s unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus. My brief was to create an animated title sequence for an imagined film adaptation of the book.

Student Project | 2022

Styleframes to indicate the look-and-feel of the animation.

Sketching out the storyboard to map the sequence of each scene and figure out the timings with the music.

Illustrations / stills from the animation.

Display art to promote the film on a streaming service, like Netflix.

Preliminary sketches to understand the octopus’ shapes and movement, and idea mapping of visual cues to build out in the sequence.

credits

Music Nocturne by ROMAN on Uppbeat