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Co-Director - Lin Jo Skytte - Den Danske Filmskole
Programs - Blender | Photoshop
My role -1st Art director
2024 | Pitch Animation Series | Contract
Kimchi Princess portrays romantic love with a feminist look at the concept of love. It's an answer to the classic Hollywood love story. The prince on the white horse is outdated - in ours story, it is the princess who must save herself. Cindy has a special property that transforms the men she has sexual and/or romantic relationships with become useful kitchen appliances when they cannot fulfill her physical or relational needs.
Kimchi Princess
Kimchi Princess
In this project together with The Danish Film School and Viborg Animation Workshop, I pitched myself to one of the animation series projects with my idea for the art style of Kimchi Princess, which then got accepted and implemented into the series.
Here my key responsibilities were:
Creating the Watercolor simulation in Blender using the compositor nodes
Creating the Watercolor simulation in Blender using the compositor nodes
My responsibilities as the 1st Art Director was to act as the creator of the first look for the animation series. In other words: storyboarding, tech artist to simulate the watercolor aesthetic, creating visual guidelines for the animators, and concept development of the environment.
Before closing in on the layout of the kitchen scene, we had to settle on how the water shader acted. In this shader, we had full control on color bleed out, off-set and imperfections of lines, and the grain size of paper
Final Render
Environment Exploration and Layout of Apartment
Environment Exploration and Layout of Apartment
In the end we decided that most of the attention should be on the kitchen, it's where everything happens after all. The kitchen is inspired by the Directors own, meaning that it should be a very personal space, cramped cabinets, a space for a cat, and ability to have dramatic lightning.
Originally by the series pitch, there were four main locations; her bedroom, kitchen, the towns bazar and oracle- a fountain, which was in the main character's common garden.
Poster Design
Poster Design
Final Poster Design
First Poster Ideas
First Sketch
Style and Portrait improvements
Final Sketch and Color
Title Cards
Title Cards
Last part I got hired to do was the title card sequence. This covered cutting and editing the sequence, making the title cards and creating small illustrations and edits for the credits. Underneath here you can watch the whole episode.
Early concepting
Early concepting
This was the 1st version of the storyboard, completely different from the final iteration. Here it had more focus on her frustration, the final version (done by Sune Elskær) was more balanced between the main characters and had less portrait scenes.
Early concepts and sketches, we were after magical girl transformations meets intimacy scenes and a soft baby pink color palette.
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