We've gotta bomb — Daraobong Ekpo

Daraobong Ekpo

2D Animator, Layout Artist, Illustrator

First Animatic (2022)

Second Animatic (2025)

We’ve gotta Bomb! (WIP)

Currently in Production

This short was initally created for an assignment in a character design course instructed by Isaac King. It’s based on an episode from the Scottish police mockumentary series, Scot Squad. For the assignment, students were asked to create a short clip accompanied with dialogue or spoken words.

This is now a passion project to combine 2D cel animation and 3D sets and assets.

Personal Project
2022

Role
Story, Direction & Animation

Audio sourced from
BBC Scotland – Scotland

Programs Used
TVPaint, Adobe Animate, Adobe Photshop, Blender, Premiere Pro, After Effects

Pre-Production

3D Research & Development

Background Concepts

3D Research & Develod

Background Concepts

3D Research & Development

Color and Tone Development

Character Design

A look into the world building and character design.

Initial design of the character (2022)

Second design of Willy da bomb expert (2022)

Character Development (2023)

Character design (2023)

Initial design of the character (2022)

Second design (2022)

Character Development (2023)

Character design (2023)

Initial design of the character (2022)

Second design (2022)

Character Development (2023)

Character design (2023)

Character line up (2023)

Props and Set Design

Layout Poses

Character posing layout phase done in Adobe Photoshop and TVPaint.