Cycle — Daraobong Ekpo Animation

Follow a bicycle fanatic and experience parts of her life through the bicycles she owns. This, like most of my work, started as a course assignment and eventually turned to a personal project.

Pre-Production

Concepts

The work was spread out over a school year. The first semester was dedicated to pre-production, and the second semester for production and post production. The project initially started as a story about a bike courier titled, Delivered.
These are the beat boards.

Beat boards for Delivered

A look into the exploration for Delivered.

Character exploration for Delivered

Later, I realized the scope of the project was heavy and decided to shift the narrative. This a look into the character designs for Cycle.

Designs for main characters

Additional designs

Production

Select backgrounds drawn and illustrated in Photoshop.

Animation Breakdown

A look into the different steps of making the short film. I used Toonboom Harmony for all animation.Animation is still in progress.