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Daraobong Ekpo
2D Animator | Layout Artist | Illustrator

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CRAT

Emulating a professional independent animation production house, I collaborated with my classmates through out a semester to produce and animate this short film in a course instructed by Catherine Feraday Miller. The short project has been recognized with awards and nominations on both domestic and international levels.

Credits are listed in video.


Group Project
2023

Director
Alireza Razzaghi

Role
Character Designer
Concept Development Artist
2D Key Animator

Programs Used
Toon Boom Harmony, Adobe Photoshop
After Effects, Premiere Pro

Combining 2D and 3D animation, CRAT is a dark science fiction short film with roots in film and comic book noir. These influences inform the intense, stylized lighting of the characters and their environment, as well as the limited colour palette. 3D renders make up the gritty, near-deserted cityscape and futuristic laboratory. A hungry crow swoops down to snatch up an unsuspecting rat, but instead finds itself, and the rat, in the path of an oncoming car. The driver is a tall stranger with glowing red goggles. He gathers the broken remains and brings them to his lab, where he reassembles them into a Frankenstein-like cyborg creature: the CRAT.
First Animatic

 Visual Development Deck

Visual Research & Development

Character Guides & Styles

All shots were animated in ToonBoom Harmony