invisible cities
zemrude
In this project, we chose one city out of novel “Invisible cities” by Italo Calvino and visualize it. The city I chose was the city called “Zemrude”. Each city from the novel gives you moral or lesson. Moral I got from the city Zemrude was “You need to endure to overcome”.
To complete this project, I decided on story archetype, design style, and animation techniques that can convey the atmosphere of the story well, starting with analyzing the story. Start with storyboard and developed into styleframes than animatic to final animation and voice over.
assets
Almost every assets from the project was photos or video I took in my daily life.
The person going through the city was created by filming myself acting / walking and rotoscoped in Photoshop.
storyboard
The person who entered the Zemrude finally arrives at the top of the city and looks down from above, overcoming hardships and adversity. The story contains the main lesson of the story that the novel has “no choice but to endure to overcome hardships”.